I meant running firefox-3.0 as a command in the console.
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On Dec 29, 2009, at 2:12 PM, Pete Theisen <petetheisen@verizon.net> wrote:
Setheck wrote:
Did firefox-3.5 work?
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Hi Setheck,
It works fine, but I can only start it by navigating to its directory in the file browser and clicking on a simlink in that directory. PITA, in my opinion. OK, there are worse things.
pete@pete-desktop:~$ firefox
The program 'firefox' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install firefox-3.0
bash: firefox: command not found
pete@pete-desktop:~$
Interesting that it is looking for 3, which I uninstalled.
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.
I think Ubuntu is using Gnome
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