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Flufinela

Member

Registered: 2006-01-12

Posts: 5

Firefox problem

I installed firefox via

# pacman -S mozilla-firefox

and it is installed (100%, no error messages) this is from the log file:

[09/03/06 06:34] installed libidl2 (0.8.7-1)
[09/03/06 06:34] installed mozilla-common (1.1-1)
[09/03/06 06:34] installed nspr (4.6.2-1)
[09/03/06 06:34] installed nss (3.11.2-1)
[09/03/06 06:34] installed mozilla-firefox (1.5.0.6-2)

but now.. when i try to start firefox with

firefox

or

 mozilla-firefox

it can not find it..
Where is my mistake? What am i doing wrong?

greetz

Flufinela

Lone_Wolf

Forum Moderator

From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 11,949

Re: Firefox problem

Did you log out / log in after installing firefox ?

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Thalassinus

Member

Registered: 2006-08-29

Posts: 55

Re: Firefox problem

Try log out/log in and then

firefox

(I had same problem, but log out/log in helped)

tomk

Forum Fellow

From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Firefox problem

Explanation (f you want it) - Arch installs firefox on /opt/mozilla, which means you need /opt/mozilla in your path. This is taken care of by the /etc/profile.d/mozilla-common.sh script, but obviously it has to be run to have any effect. Logging out and in again activates /etc/profile, which in turn runs mozila-common.sh, and any other scripts in the /etc/profile.d directory. It could also be activated by

source /etc/profile

if for some reason you don't want to log out and in.

Flufinela

Member

Registered: 2006-01-12

Posts: 5

Re: Firefox problem

loging out and in did it.. well thank you, guys