Firefox clean installation but does not execute

Alain G. Fabry alainfabry at belgacom.net
Tue Sep 20 13:27:26 UTC 2011


On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 01:40:56PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 02:16:35PM +0200, Alain G. Fabry wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 05:53:06AM -0600, Warren Block wrote:
> > > On Tue, 20 Sep 2011, Alain G. Fabry wrote:
> > > 
> > > >I've installed both firefox and firefox36. Neither of them can be found on 
> > > >the system while the installation build and installed without errors
> > > >
> > > >afabry at desmo 13:40 % pkg_info | grep firefox
> > > >firefox-3.6.22,1    Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla
> > > >firefox-6.0.2,1     Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla
> > > >afabry at desmo 13:41 % which firefox
> > > >firefox: Command not found.
> > > >afabry at desmo 13:41 % which firefox3
> > > >firefox3: Command not found.
> > > 
> > > See 'man csh | less -p rehash'.
> > > 
> > > But also these should run with a full path:
> > > 
> > > % /usr/local/bin/firefox3
> > > % /usr/local/bin/firefox
> > > _______________________________________________
> > 
> > Files are just not found on the system... :-(
> > 
> > afabry at desmo 14:10 % pkg_info | grep firefox
> > firefox-3.6.22,1    Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla
> > firefox-6.0.2,1     Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla
> > afabry at desmo 14:10 % rehash
> > afabry at desmo 14:14 % /usr/local/bin/firefox
> > /usr/local/bin/firefox: Command not found.
> > afabry at desmo 14:12 % ls -l /usr/local/bin/ | grep fire
> > -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    10108 Sep  7 07:29 aafire
> > afabry at desmo 14:12 % 
> 
> what about
> 
> pkg_info -Lx firefox-3
> pkg_info -Lx firefox-6
> 
> On my system:
> 
> TZAV> pkg_info -Lx firefox-3 | grep bin
> /usr/local/bin/firefox3
> /usr/local/include/firefox3/gtk2xtbin.h
> /usr/local/lib/firefox3/bin
> /usr/local/lib/firefox3/firefox-bin
> TZAV>
> 
> 

Seems to be ok here ??

afabry at desmo 15:22 % pkg_info -Lx firefox-3 | grep bin
/usr/local/bin/firefox3
/usr/local/include/firefox3/gtk2xtbin.h
/usr/local/lib/firefox3/bin
/usr/local/lib/firefox3/firefox-bin
afabry at desmo 15:23 % pkg_info -Lx firefox-6 | grep bin 
/usr/local/bin/firefox
/usr/local/include/firefox/gtk2xtbin.h
/usr/local/lib/firefox/bin
/usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox-bin
/usr/local/lib/firefox/searchplugins/bing.xml



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