Re: Can't execute binary?
> Hi,
> I've just installed wheezy/KDE on a spare machine, to see what we're
> getting. All seems OK, apart from one mystery:
>
> I installed a copy of Firefox-18.0.2 in /usr/local, with a symlink
> pointing to it, as I have done in Squeeze and earlier for years.
>
> Typing "/usr/local/firefox/firefox" always used to start it with no
> problem. However, on the wheezy box, I'm getting:
> ---
> tony@tony-dlt:~$ /usr/local/firefox/firefox
> bash: /usr/local/firefox/firefox: cannot execute binary file
> ---
>
> Well, WTF, as they say. Does anyone know of a change that causes this?
Is the copy of firefox the same architetcture of the spare machine? Aren't
you trying to run a 64bit executable in a 32bit machine?
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