From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 20 08:27:57 2011 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 980C4106566C for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 08:27:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from dirg.bris.ac.uk (dirg.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 516DD8FC19 for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 08:27:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ncsd.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.10.59] helo=ncs.bris.ac.uk) by dirg.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1R5vg6-0006yy-2i; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:27:49 +0100 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.187.241]) by ncs.bris.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1R5vfg-0007d0-HN; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:27:16 +0100 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id p8K8R7Zj066616; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:27:07 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: (from mexas@localhost) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id p8K8R6NR066615; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:27:06 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk: mexas set sender to mexas@bristol.ac.uk using -f Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:27:06 +0100 From: Anton Shterenlikht To: Warren Block Message-ID: <20110920082705.GB28279@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Warren Block , "Alain G. Fabry" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20110920053708.GA2051@desmo.3rdrock.kicks-ass.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: "Alain G. Fabry" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox clean installation but does not execute X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 08:27:57 -0000 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