Firefox clean installation but does not execute

[Anton Shterenlikht]

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 12:01:52AM -0600, Warren Block wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Sep 2011, Alain G. Fabry wrote:
> 
> >Hello,
> >
> >I've installed Firefox36 from ports, it installed without a problem but it 
> >does not launch. In other words, there's no firefox file on my system.
> >Had it installed before and working, then to clean out the system with 
> >unnecessary ports, I removed all ports and reinstalled only what is 
> >necessary.
> >Somehow now I can't get firefox to work. The installation runs through 
> >cleanly, but when I try to run firefox, the system just responds with 
> >'command not found'
> >
> >fabry at desmo 7:27 % pkg_info | grep firefox
> >firefox-3.6.22,1    Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla
> >afabry at desmo 7:28 % firefox
> >firefox: Command not found.
> >
> >What could be the problem, where could I start looking?

If you used www/firefox36 port, then the executable is firefox3.

firefox is installed by www/firefox.

> 
> See #3: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/interrupted.html
> 
> Firefox 3.6 is relatively old, ports has 6.0.2.

I use www/firefox36 on ia64, because www/firefox doesn't build.

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