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twhayes

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Registered: 2007-10-09

Posts: 27

Easy Question (I think) about Running Firefox 3

I installed Firefox 3 from AUR using Yaourt and can't get it to run.  When I run 'firefox-nightly' from the CL, I get this error message:
 
"/opt/mozilla/lib/firefox-nightly/run-mozilla.sh: line 166: /opt/mozilla/lib/firefox-nightly/firefox-nightly-bin: No such file or directory".

But the file is there.  Here's ls of the directory:

ls fire*                                                                   [/opt/mozilla/lib/firefox-nightly]
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3955 2008-02-14 22:48 firefox*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7812 2008-02-14 14:59 firefox-bin*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   44 2008-02-14 22:48 firefox-nightly-bin -> /opt/mozilla/lib/firefox-nightly/firefox-bin*

I thought maybe it was a path problem so added /opt/mozilla/lib/firefox-nightly to $PATH so it is now:

echo $PATH                                                                 [/opt/mozilla/lib/firefox-nightly]
/opt/mozilla/lib/firefox-nightly:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/opt/bin:/opt/mozilla/bin:/opt/qt/bin:/opt/kde/bin

I also tried running 'firefox' and 'firefox-bin' with same results.

With that I've come to the end of my limited (but hopefully improving) Linux knowledge.  I think this is something simple.  Any ideas?

Thanks much.  TW

jacko

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Registered: 2007-11-23

Posts: 840

Re: Easy Question (I think) about Running Firefox 3

my firefox 3 binary is located in /opt/mozilla/bin

... and it also starts by typing firefox3 at the cli.

Last edited by jacko (2008-02-15 05:06:03)

vogt

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From: Toronto, Canada

Registered: 2006-11-25

Posts: 389

Re: Easy Question (I think) about Running Firefox 3

firefox-nightly is another version (nightly trunk builds). But */bin is for executables.

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

Posts: 3,742

Re: Easy Question (I think) about Running Firefox 3

But the file is there.

That is impossible

Must be a file/directory permissions problem then.

SpookyET

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Registered: 2008-01-27

Posts: 410

Re: Easy Question (I think) about Running Firefox 3

Use Beta 3 instead of nightly. There are a bunch of packages for that.  I recommend mine if you want to use it exclusively in it's all glory.

Misfit138

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From: USA

Registered: 2006-11-27

Posts: 4,189

Re: Easy Question (I think) about Running Firefox 3

Beta 3 is in [unstable].
Enabling [unstable] in /etc/pacman.conf is completely safe, as packages from it can peacefully co-exist with all other repositories. You will not mess up anything with clashing versions, or anything.
Enable [unstable] install with pacman.

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tigrmesh

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From: Florida, US

Registered: 2007-12-11

Posts: 794

Re: Easy Question (I think) about Running Firefox 3

Once you've enabled [unstable], do pacman -S firefox3.

twhayes

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Registered: 2007-10-09

Posts: 27

Re: Easy Question (I think) about Running Firefox 3

Thanks to all.  I got firefox3 from unstable running.

gdw

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Registered: 2008-05-24

Posts: 7

Re: Easy Question (I think) about Running Firefox 3

I was having the same error that you stated in your previous post.  I tried swiftfox and the original firefox.  Only when I used the unstable firefox3 did I get it working!