Try opening the console.
There you should see a command prompt.
usually it ends in $
right there you put in "firefox" with no quotes, and hit TAB a few
times. what comes up?
It should show you some options if you have a firefox binary in your
path.
here is mine as an example
What your seeing is me enter firefox, then pres tab twice. finding one
named simply "firefox" i use the which command to figure out where it
actually is. Since i saw that the full path was /usr/bin/firefox, I then
use ls with option l to get some details. We can see that firefox is
located in /usr/bin/ and is a symbolic link to /usr/bin/firefox-3.5
============================
$ firefox
firefox firefox-3.5
$ which firefox
/usr/bin/firefox
$ ls -l /usr/bin/firefox
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2009-07-23 14:03 /usr/bin/firefox
-> /usr/bin/firefox-3.5
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On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 17:04 -0500, Pete Theisen wrote:
> Setheck wrote:
> > I meant running firefox-3.0 as a command in the console.
>
> Hi Setheck,
>
> I guess I don't know how to do that. Would I type "firefox - 3.5" in at
> the prompt, or something else?
>
> > Setheck wrote: Did firefox-3.5 work? Sent from my iPhone
>
> > 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:~$
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