Firefox clean installation but does not execute

[Anton Shterenlikht]

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 03:44:31PM +0200, Alain G. Fabry wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 02:40:42PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 03:26:29PM +0200, Alain G. Fabry wrote:
> > > 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
> > 
> > So, what do you get if you now type:
> > 
> > /usr/local/bin/firefox3
> > 
> > or
> > 
> > /usr/local/bin/firefox
> > 
> > -- 
> What I mentioned before ;-)  'command not found' 
> 
> afabry at desmo 15:40 % /usr/local/bin/firefox3
> /usr/local/bin/firefox3: Command not found.
> afabry at desmo 15:40 % /usr/local/bin/firefox
> /usr/local/bin/firefox: Command not found.
> afabry at desmo 15:41 % 
> 
> files don't exist, and must have deinstalled/installed already 3 times...

so, pkg_info thinks it installed the executable,
yet, you can't find it.

I don't know what to check next.

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Anton Shterenlikht
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