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Cirdan

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Registered: 2006-03-18

Posts: 64

Firefox

This is probably a stupid question, but I installed firefox via pacman. Now, how do I run it? Again...sorry for the noobish question.

kill

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Registered: 2004-09-30

Posts: 126

Re: Firefox

If your using Gnome or KDE there will be a launcher under the Internet category. You can also run it from a console with the firefox command.

$ firefox

Cirdan

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Registered: 2006-03-18

Posts: 64

Re: Firefox

*hits forehead

Why didn't I think of that, thanks.

EDIT: When I try to do fbsetbg -f ~picturesLinuxwallpaper.jpg I get an error that says xmessage: command not found in the fbsetbg script line 169.

stonecrest

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From: Boulder

Registered: 2005-01-22

Posts: 1,190

Re: Firefox

EDIT: When I try to do fbsetbg -f ~picturesLinuxwallpaper.jpg I get an error that says xmessage: command not found in the fbsetbg script line 169.

pacman -S xorg-apps

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Cirdan

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Registered: 2006-03-18

Posts: 64

Re: Firefox

EDIT: When I try to do fbsetbg -f ~picturesLinuxwallpaper.jpg I get an error that says xmessage: command not found in the fbsetbg script line 169.

pacman -S xorg-apps

Thanks. But now it says it can't find a wallpaper setter and wants me to install eterm, so I did. Now Esetroot gives me an error:

Esetroot: error while loading shared libraries: libpcre.so.o: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

dtw

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From: UK

Registered: 2004-08-03

Posts: 4,439

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Re: Firefox

Forget eterm - install feh

detto

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Registered: 2006-01-23

Posts: 510

Re: Firefox

or if u want to keep eterm+esetroot , do a "pacman -S pcre"

eqisow

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Registered: 2007-11-13

Posts: 14

Re: Firefox

[root@justin eqisow]# pacman -S firefox
:: firefox-2.0.0.11-1: local version is up to date. Upgrade anyway? [Y/n]
resolving dependencies... done.
looking for inter-conflicts... done.

Targets: firefox-2.0.0.11-1

Total Package Size:   9.36 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
checking package integrity... done.
cleaning up... done.
(1/1) checking for file conflicts                   [#####################] 100%
(1/1) upgrading firefox                             [#####################] 100%
[root@justin eqisow]# firefox
bash: firefox: command not found

Any ideas? I've tried removing FF before reinstalling as well.

Mantaar

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Registered: 2007-12-17

Posts: 70

Re: Firefox

Do not, I repeat, DO NOT run firefox as root. that's asking for trouble.

If the same persists when running as normal user, it would be helpful to know what the output of

echo $PATH

and

ls /usr/bin/firefox

is.

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eqisow

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Registered: 2007-11-13

Posts: 14

Re: Firefox

Yeah, I know - browser as root is bad. Yes, the same thing does happen as a normal user.

bash-3.2$ echo $PATH
/opt/kde/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/games
bash-3.2$ ls /usr/bin/firefox
ls: cannot access /usr/bin/firefox: No such file or directory

rdking

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From: Halifax NS

Registered: 2005-04-14

Posts: 114

Re: Firefox

hey!

Mozilla firefox installs to /opt/mozilla/bin/firefox.

Chances are /opt is not in your paths.  Either type out the above, create an icon with the above as the call, or edit your ~.bash_profile to include /opt

Last edited by rdking (2008-01-08 00:28:43)

fwojciec

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Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 1,411

Re: Firefox

You need to log out completely and log back in -- or source /etc/profile...  Firefox is installed in /opt so paths need to be updated before running it.

eqisow

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Registered: 2007-11-13

Posts: 14

Re: Firefox

Would it be OK to do a quick

ln -s /opt/mozilla/bin/firefox /usr/bin/firefox

or is there a reason that this would be inadvisable?

Thanks for the help guys.

fwojciec

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Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 1,411

Re: Firefox

Would it be OK to do a quick

ln -s /opt/mozilla/bin/firefox /usr/bin/firefox

or is there a reason that this would be inadvisable?

Thanks for the help guys.

You can but there is no point since the next time you log in /opt/mozilla/bin is going to be in the path.

eqisow

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Registered: 2007-11-13

Posts: 14

Re: Firefox

Logging out and back in actually didn't help - but I know where the binary is now so it's all good.

Thanks again all.

sm4tik

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From: Finland, Jyväskylä

Registered: 2006-11-05

Posts: 248

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Re: Firefox

..that's not the way it's supposed to be? Can you give the output of

ls /etc/profile.d

If mozilla-common.sh exists in thet directory it should export /opt/mozilla/bin for you.
If it doesn't exist, maybe someone else can explain why? Just in case, you could give the output of

cat /etc/profile.d/mozilla-common.sh

too

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normc

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From: Ottawa, Canada

Registered: 2004-06-28

Posts: 277

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Re: Firefox

firefox is now in '/usr/bin/firefox'

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fwojciec

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Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 1,411

Re: Firefox

firefox is now in '/usr/bin/firefox'

Not on my system:

filip@ground_control32 ~ $ pacman -Qs firefox
local/firefox 2.0.0.11-1
    Standalone web browser from mozilla.org
filip@ground_control32 ~ $ which firefox
/opt/mozilla/bin/firefox

Are you using a custom package or firefox 3 beta?

normc

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From: Ottawa, Canada

Registered: 2004-06-28

Posts: 277

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Re: Firefox

Last time I updated FF from the repros pacman put it in /usr same with thunderbird.

glib2.csh  jre.sh   kde.sh     mozilla-common.sh  xorg.sh
glib2.sh   kde.csh  locale.sh  qt3.sh

export PATH="${PATH}:/opt/mozilla/bin"
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${PKG_CONFIG_PATH}:/opt/mozilla/lib/pkgconfig"
export MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH="/opt/mozilla/lib/plugins:/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins"

I'm running testing. When I updated and tried to run FF couldn't find it in opt. I searched ans found it in /usr

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