From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 8 14:58:07 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A235E16A46C for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2007 14:58:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jamesh@lanl.gov) Received: from mailwasher.lanl.gov (mailwasher.lanl.gov [204.121.3.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C2CF13C4AA for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2007 14:58:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jamesh@lanl.gov) Received: from mailrelay2.lanl.gov (mailrelay2.lanl.gov [128.165.4.103]) by mailwasher.lanl.gov (8.13.8/8.13.8/(ccn-5)) with ESMTP id lA8EvuBv028351; Thu, 8 Nov 2007 07:57:57 -0700 Received: from oppie-mail.lanl.gov (oppie-mail.lanl.gov [128.165.4.123]) by mailrelay2.lanl.gov (8.13.8/8.13.8/(ccn-5)) with ESMTP id lA8Evu6t014661; Thu, 8 Nov 2007 07:57:56 -0700 Received: from [128.165.86.10] (secretariat.lanl.gov [128.165.86.10]) by oppie-mail.lanl.gov (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9592D1F8002; Thu, 8 Nov 2007 07:57:52 -0700 (MST) From: James To: Marc Fromm In-Reply-To: <8910AF8FB6C6E84796358D71090AF7CF087E6367@EVS1.univ.dir.wwu.edu> References: <8910AF8FB6C6E84796358D71090AF7CF087E5C9E@EVS1.univ.dir.wwu.edu> <1194489735.29601.39.camel@secretariat.lanl.gov> <8910AF8FB6C6E84796358D71090AF7CF087E6367@EVS1.univ.dir.wwu.edu> Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratories Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 07:57:52 -0700 Message-Id: <1194533872.6729.6.camel@secretariat.lanl.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port X-CTN-5-MailScanner-Information: Please see http://network.lanl.gov/email/virus-scan.php X-CTN-5-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-CTN-5-MailScanner-From: jamesh@lanl.gov X-Spam-Status: No Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: RE: installing programs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: jamesh@lanl.gov List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 14:58:07 -0000 On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 15:46 -0800, Marc Fromm wrote: > Hi James, > > > > Thanks for the extra tip on checking for installed packages. Here's another tip: use reply all, not reply. That way, we keep the whole list informed, which is a good thing :) > > I browsed the ftp site and found a firefox2. The default is firefox > which is the 1.5 version. > > I ran the following: > > sudo pkg_add -r firefox2 > > Fetching > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.2-release/Latest/firefox2.tbz... Done. > > > > pkg_info -Ix firefox reports this: > > firefox-2.0.r2,1 Web browser based on the browser portion of > Mozilla > > > > When I go into the KDE GUI to kmenu _ internet _ and click on the > newly created fierefox icon, nothing happens. > > Firefox does not start. > Have you restarted your X session? The shortcuts sometimes need to be told what's going on, that things are updated. You can either reboot your computer, or use ctrl-alt-backspace to restart your x session. Or you can use your command line! Start a terminal, type "which firefox" and you should get the path to firefox, probably: /usr/local/bin/firefox Now type "firefox &" And leave the terminal open. Firefox should start. If it doesn't, follow the old phrase "When in doubt, reboot." I know it's not nice to be told to treat a FreeBSD box like a windows box that way, but until you get some more experience fooling around with the system and restarting things properly, it's the simplest way to make sure things get started fine. > > > I do not know what shell I am using. I ssh into the box with Putty. I > installed FreeBSD from the 6.2-RELEASE-i386 iso. > echo $SHELL will tell you what shell you're using. Just to make sure I've got the right picture in my head: you've got a FreeBSD box that you're sitting at, which you've managed to install FreeBSD, gnome||kde, all that stuff correctly, but something's missing when it comes to starting firefox, right? You're not sshing into the box and using x-forwarding, you're physically sitting there, yeah? One last tip: this list has a pretty strong "Don't top post" mob in it. If you bottom post only, then when someone else wants to help you, it's easier for them to get up to speed. Bottom post FTW!