Firefox clean installation but does not execute

Anton Shterenlikht mexas at bristol.ac.uk
Tue Sep 20 12:40:59 UTC 2011


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>


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