Firefox clean installation but does not execute

[Chris Whitehouse]

On 20/09/2011 15:04, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 03:44:31PM +0200, Alain G. Fabry wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 02:40:42PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
>>> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 03:26:29PM +0200, Alain G. Fabry wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 01:40:56PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 02:16:35PM +0200, Alain G. Fabry wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 05:53:06AM -0600, Warren Block wrote:
>>>>>>> On Tue, 20 Sep 2011, Alain G. Fabry wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I've installed both firefox and firefox36. Neither of them can be found on
>>>>>>>> the system while the installation build and installed without errors
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> afabry at desmo 13:40 % pkg_info | grep firefox
>>>>>>>> firefox-3.6.22,1    Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla
>>>>>>>> firefox-6.0.2,1     Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla
>>>>>>>> afabry at desmo 13:41 % which firefox
>>>>>>>> firefox: Command not found.
>>>>>>>> afabry at desmo 13:41 % which firefox3
>>>>>>>> firefox3: Command not found.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> See 'man csh | less -p rehash'.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> But also these should run with a full path:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> % /usr/local/bin/firefox3
>>>>>>> % /usr/local/bin/firefox
>>>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Files are just not found on the system... :-(
>>>>>>
>>>>>> afabry at desmo 14:10 % pkg_info | grep firefox
>>>>>> firefox-3.6.22,1    Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla
>>>>>> firefox-6.0.2,1     Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla
>>>>>> afabry at desmo 14:10 % rehash
>>>>>> afabry at desmo 14:14 % /usr/local/bin/firefox
>>>>>> /usr/local/bin/firefox: Command not found.
>>>>>> afabry at desmo 14:12 % ls -l /usr/local/bin/ | grep fire
>>>>>> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    10108 Sep  7 07:29 aafire
>>>>>> afabry at desmo 14:12 %
>>>>>
>>>>> what about
>>>>>
>>>>> pkg_info -Lx firefox-3
>>>>> pkg_info -Lx firefox-6
>>>>>
>>>>> On my system:
>>>>>
>>>>> TZAV>  pkg_info -Lx firefox-3 | grep bin
>>>>> /usr/local/bin/firefox3
>>>>> /usr/local/include/firefox3/gtk2xtbin.h
>>>>> /usr/local/lib/firefox3/bin
>>>>> /usr/local/lib/firefox3/firefox-bin
>>>>> TZAV>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Seems to be ok here ??
>>>>
>>>> afabry at desmo 15:22 % pkg_info -Lx firefox-3 | grep bin
>>>> /usr/local/bin/firefox3
>>>> /usr/local/include/firefox3/gtk2xtbin.h
>>>> /usr/local/lib/firefox3/bin
>>>> /usr/local/lib/firefox3/firefox-bin
>>>> afabry at desmo 15:23 % pkg_info -Lx firefox-6 | grep bin
>>>> /usr/local/bin/firefox
>>>> /usr/local/include/firefox/gtk2xtbin.h
>>>> /usr/local/lib/firefox/bin
>>>> /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox-bin
>>>> /usr/local/lib/firefox/searchplugins/bing.xml
>>>
>>> So, what do you get if you now type:
>>>
>>> /usr/local/bin/firefox3
>>>
>>> or
>>>
>>> /usr/local/bin/firefox
>>>
>>> --
>> What I mentioned before ;-)  'command not found'
>>
>> afabry at desmo 15:40 % /usr/local/bin/firefox3
>> /usr/local/bin/firefox3: Command not found.
>> afabry at desmo 15:40 % /usr/local/bin/firefox
>> /usr/local/bin/firefox: Command not found.
>> afabry at desmo 15:41 %
>>
>> files don't exist, and must have deinstalled/installed already 3 times...
>
> so, pkg_info thinks it installed the executable,
> yet, you can't find it.
>
> I don't know what to check next.
>

# /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb
# locate firefox