Try going to the console and see if just firefox will start it. If not, try firefox then hit tab to Auto complete in the case of firefox-3.5 if that works use which firefox to see where the binary is. Then create a sym link to the binary.
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On Dec 28, 2009, at 11:27 PM, Pete Theisen <petetheisen@verizon.net> wrote:
Eben King wrote:
Don't know, I don't know how to do that. The path is /home/pete/firefox.
If I navigate to that location in the file browser and click on a thingie named "firefox" it starts. I usually call such thingies simlinks.
Could be a symlink, a script, or even a binary. Or something special interpreted by your environment. What does "file ~/firefox" say?
Once I have it running I never shut it off unless it starts screwing up. I may close tabs or windows, but not close it completely.
sudo ln -s ~/firefox /usr/bin/firefox
(if it's something halfway ordinary)
Maybe your WM will recognize that you have it installed, maybe not. In any case, at least you can run "firefox" from any terminal or "run" dialog without either messing with $PATH or giving an explicit path. Or invoking a file manager.
Hi Eben,
I think Ubuntu is using Gnome on this machine, seems to me that Red Hat did as well back in the bad old RH 7-8 days. Different from Gentoo and Mepis, that's for sure. I believe these were KDE. I have an interesting Puppy 4.3.1 machine that I think is ICE.
pete@pete-desktop:~$ file ~/firefox
/home/pete/firefox: directory
pete@pete-desktop:~$ sudo ln -s ~/firefox /usr/bin/firefox
[sudo] password for pete:
pete@pete-desktop:~$ sudo ln -s ~/firefox /usr/bin/firefox
ln: creating symbolic link `/usr/bin/firefox/firefox': File exists
pete@pete-desktop:~$
I avoid the terminal stuff. I used to try DOS commands in the Linux terminal with great frustration. I knew what I wanted to do but the commands in Linux were different and I never did find a good cheat sheet. But then GUIs came out in Linux and I said "Oh, Joy!"
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