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Firefox not installed? [SOLVED]
Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 10:18 am
by Scorpio_Snake
So I tried to open Firefox today. I get this:
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~ $ firefox
The program 'firefox' is currently not installed. To run 'firefox' please ask your administrator to install the package 'iceweasel'
firefox: command not found
But yet
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~ $ aptitude search firefox
i firefox - The Firefox web browser
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~ $ aptitude show firefox
Package: firefox
New: yes
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 3.6.13-1linuxmint1
Priority: optional
Section: web
Maintainer: Clement Lefebvre <root@linuxmint.com>
Uncompressed Size: 29.2 M
Depends: firefox-l10n | firefox-l10n-en-us
Description: The Firefox web browser
The Mozilla Firefox Web Browser.
Re: Firefox not installed?
Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 1:06 pm
by ShexNivis
try creating a symlink to it:
sudo ln -s /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox
Re: Firefox not installed?
Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 1:31 pm
by sgosnell
Firefox is installed in /opt, for some reason, and /opt is not in your path.
should cause it to run. It's usually run from a menu, not from the command line. Creating the symlink should let you run it from the command line without specifying the path.
Re: Firefox not installed?
Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 1:39 pm
by vrkalak
What do you get, in the terminal, when you type, just:
firefox
Do not use sudo firefox you don't want to open it with root/admin privileges
Maybe, go into the Synaptic Manager and check Firefox for Complete Removal ... then, re-install.
Was this problem with the 'default' firefox? Or an upgraded version?
Consult the Firefox Help Forum >
http://forums.mozillazine.org/ or
http://www.techsupportforum.com/alterna ... -browsers/
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I have had problems with Firefox browser in other Debian OS's before, quite often actually.
Perhaps, you can try installing the Iceweasel version better (seems more stable, to me) ... it's in the repros.
Or use another browser? Opera 10 or Chromium-browser are in the repros, as well.
Re: Firefox not installed?
Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 1:48 pm
by ShexNivis
vrkalak wrote:What do you get, in the terminal, when you type, just:
firefox
Do not use sudo firefox you don't want to open it with root/admin privileges
Maybe, go into the Synaptic Manager and check Firefox for Complete Removal ... then, re-install.
Was this problem with the 'default' firefox? Or an upgraded version?
Consult the Firefox Help Forum >
http://forums.mozillazine.org/ or
http://www.techsupportforum.com/alterna ... -browsers/
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I have had problems with Firefox browser in other Debian OS's before, quite often actually.
Perhaps, you can try installing the Iceweasel version better (seems more stable, to me) ... it's in the repros.
Or use another browser? Opera 10 or Chromium-browser are in the repros, as well.
It's just a problem with firefox from mint's repo. For some reason the new .deb from it doesn't have the link on /usr/bin
Re: Firefox not installed?
Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 12:11 am
by Scorpio_Snake
ShexNivis wrote:try creating a symlink to it:
sudo ln -s /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox
Creating the symlink worked. I am not sure why it changed as it was working fine the other day.
The version is an upgraded version.