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Date:      Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:01:52 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        "Alain G. Fabry" <alainfabry@belgacom.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Firefox clean installation but does not execute
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1109192359530.49863@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110920053708.GA2051@desmo.3rdrock.kicks-ass.net>
References:  <20110920053708.GA2051@desmo.3rdrock.kicks-ass.net>

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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@desmo 7:27 % pkg_info | grep firefox
> firefox-3.6.22,1    Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla
> afabry@desmo 7:28 % firefox
> firefox: Command not found.
>
> What could be the problem, where could I start looking?

See #3: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/interrupted.html

Firefox 3.6 is relatively old, ports has 6.0.2.



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