Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:27:06 +0100 From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: "Alain G. Fabry" <alainfabry@belgacom.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox clean installation but does not execute Message-ID: <20110920082705.GB28279@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1109192359530.49863@wonkity.com> References: <20110920053708.GA2051@desmo.3rdrock.kicks-ass.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1109192359530.49863@wonkity.com>
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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@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? 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. -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423
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