Yup, Flock 0.9.0 is released! Yup, even for Linux. I admire the people @ Flock for releasing a browser in all 3 platforms with all functionalities present in all 3 flavors. [Yes Firefox, you are still waaaayy up there. We are not comparing both of you. Flock is nothing but a son of yours…]

Before we start:

• I used Ubuntu Feisty while installation.
• The same should work on all Ubuntu installations
• The same should work also on all other Linux distributions. [Users remember to replace sudo with the corresponding root user rights command / run as root =)

So getting down and dirty – Flock itself gives a brief [an exaggeration] of how to install on Linux running machines. But, I found that hardly usable, especially for migrators[I don’t think such a word exists – so I call it]. So here’re the instructions for running Flock on Linux =)

Download the installer of Flock for Linux – here

Note: Download it to a folder you would remember to navigate to via the command line!

Untar [Extract] the Flock Installer

Go to the command line and type the following command

sudo tar -C /opt -zxvf flock-*.linux-i686.tar.gz

Test your Flock

Now just to make sure that Flock has extracted properly – type this in your command line [Note: This will present you with the option to import your settings from Firefox as well]

/opt/flock/flock

Create a link

A link is a more powerful shortcut, which the user can place so that the program can be accessed without having to type the previous command all the time =)!

sudo ln -s /opt/flock/flock /usr/bin/flock

Now that would create a link for Flock in the /usr/bin folder, which contains more programs, which can be used!

Create an Application Menu Entry

Note: This is specific to Gnome!

Type this in your terminal

sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/Flock.desktop

and paste the next lines into the Edit window, which pops up
[Desktop Entry]
Comment=Flock Web Browser
Exec=flock
GenericName=Flock Web Browser
Icon=/opt/flock/icons/mozicon128.png
Name=Flock
Path=
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=0
TerminalOptions=
Type=Application
X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false
X-KDE-Username=
Categories=Network;Application;


Refresh the Gnome-Panel!

To see the entry you just made, you need to type this into the terminal

killall gnome-panel

And ta-da. Now, you can add an entry into the gnome-button list by just adding the launcher =)! Woozzaah!!