# Flock 0.9.0 installation for Linux

- Author: @gurupanguji
- Date: 2007-07-10
- URL: https://gurupanguji.com/blog/2007/07/10/flock-090-installation-for-linux/
- Categories: essay, technology

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<img src="/assets/images/blog/flock%20logo.jpg" alt="Flock Logo" align="left" height="96" width="96" />Yup, <a href="http://flock.com/node/11595" title="Announcing A Major Upgrade" target="_blank">Flock 0.9.0 is released</a>! 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:
<ul>
	<li>I used Ubuntu Feisty while installation.</li>
	<li>The same should work on all Ubuntu installations</li>
	<li>The same should work also on all other Linux distributions. [Users remember to replace <code>sudo</code> with the corresponding root user rights command / run as root =)</li>
</ul>
So getting down and dirty -  Flock itself gives a <a href="http://flock.com/faq/show/30#q_9069" title="How to Install Flock on Linux" target="_blank">brief [an exaggeration] of how to install on Linux running machines</a>. 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 =)
<h3>Download the installer of Flock for Linux - <a href="http://downloads.flock.com/index.php?utm_source=flockcom&amp;utm_medium=versionspage&amp;utm_campaign=flockcom002&amp;utm_content=lin_language&amp;os=linux&amp;lang=en-US&amp;product=flock-0.9.0" title="Download Flock for Linux" target="_blank">here</a></h3>
Note: Download it to a folder you would remember to navigate to via the command line!
<h3>Untar [Extract] the Flock Installer</h3>
Go to the command line and type the following command

<code>sudo tar -C /opt -zxvf flock-*.linux-i686.tar.gz</code>
<h3>Test your Flock</h3>
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]

<code>/opt/flock/flock</code>
<h3>Create a link</h3>
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 =)!

<code>sudo ln -s /opt/flock/flock /usr/bin/flock</code>

Now that would create a link for Flock in the <code>/usr/bin</code> folder, which contains more programs, which can be used!
<h3>Create an Application Menu Entry</h3>
Note: This is specific to Gnome!

Type this in your terminal

<code>sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/Flock.desktop</code>

and paste the next lines into the Edit window, which pops up
<code>[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;
</code>
<h3>Refresh the Gnome-Panel!</h3>
To see the entry you just made, you need to type this into the terminal

<code>killall gnome-panel</code>

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