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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