Problems installing Firefox

2k · 2006-02-17 20:33:40

Hi there,

Firstly appologies if this should be in the newbie or any other section.

I have just installed arch onto my system, and whilst i have some issues to solve i'll have a good go at doing so myself before i have to ask for help, personal pride and all that.

However i'm having a few difficulties installing firefox of all things

i issue the command

pacman -S mozilla-firefox

which i think is correct and all seems to go well until i get the following

....
installing libxt... done.
installing mozilla-firefox... done.
/var/lib/pacman/local/mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.1-2/install: line 4: update-desktop-               database: command not found

I am wondering where i might be going wrong?

Thanks for any help that can be offered

Mike

T-Dawg · 2006-02-17 20:44:45

install desktop-file-utils

TheDoctor · 2006-02-17 20:46:14

It looks like the package install script has a tab before the database. Try a 'pacman -Sy mozilla-firefox' to see if there's a newer/different package. You might have to delete the package out of /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ to prevent it from using the local package.

2k · 2006-02-17 20:47:17

Penguin wrote:

install desktop-file-utils

Brilliant!

it installed fine now, sorry to trouble you over something that i should have been able to solve myself

Mike

T-Dawg · 2006-02-17 20:51:33

2k wrote:

Penguin wrote:
install desktop-file-utils
sorry to trouble you over something that i should have been able to solve myself
Mike

not a problem at all. I used pacman -Qo to find the owner of that file but obviously its not so easy in your situation...

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Problems installing Firefox

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