Arch Linux

justin

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From: Philadelphia

Registered: 2007-04-18

Posts: 132

Running programs

I recently installed Arch Linux, and have installed firefox via pacman -S firefox, but I cant seem to figure out how to start it. There is no firefox command, nor mozilla-firefox or firefox-bin. How can I run firefox? Also, I installed gtk-theme-switch the same way, and can't run that either.

raymano

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Registered: 2006-10-13

Posts: 357

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Re: Running programs

Firefox install creates /etc/profile.d/mozilla-common.sh which runs at system startup to add the mozilla directory to your path. So either:

1) reboot and firefox will be in your path.
2) Source the mozilla setup file. From comman-line do:
   . /etc/profile.d/mozilla-common.sh
   firefox

3) Give the absolute path when running:
   /opt/mozilla/bin/firefox

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sl

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From: uk

Registered: 2007-04-04

Posts: 42

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Re: Running programs

you don't need to reboot, just logout and log back in..

this might help to see where the binaries are installed ...

pacman -Ql [pkg_name] | grep bin/

F

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Registered: 2006-10-09

Posts: 322

Re: Running programs

mozilla/firefox is stupid and installs itself under /opt. I don't know why.

Try lurking around /opt/mozilla/bin.

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Running programs

Arch installs firefox, and certain other large packages and package groups, under /opt. If you think it's stupid, submit a feature request with your reasoning.

All packages installed in /opt include /etc/profile.d entries to adjust system paths automatically, as described by raymano above. "Lurking" around any path in /opt is not necessary.