Re: firefox-37, where to put
On Thursday 02 April 2015 05:33:35 Petter Adsen wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Apr 2015 05:16:37 -0400
>
> Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> wrote:
> > wordwrap off so as not to rip up long lines.
> >
> > On Thursday 02 April 2015 02:35:00 Petter Adsen wrote:
> > > On Wed, 1 Apr 2015 22:54:02 -0400
> > >
> > > Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> wrote:
> > > > Greetings all;
> > > >
> > > > Iceweasel commited suicide when I was asked by my bank to delete
> > > > its history, so now all I get is a blank terminal screen that is
> > > > using 100% of a cpu core until I kill it as root. A total purge
> > > > and reinstall didn't fix it.
> > > >
> > > > Chromium seems incapable of performing an online credit card
> > > > transaction. And crashes anytime I go to abcnews.go.com
> > > >
> > > > So I just dl'd firefox-37 tarball for 64 bit linux and unpacked
> > > > it into my home dirs bin subdir. But thats likely not going to
> > > > be great as it probably looks someplace else for its libraries &
> > > > such.
> > > >
> > > > So where is the std place it would normally live? If it can
> > > > still find the old iceweasel password cache, that would be a
> > > > huge plus.
> > >
> > > Just unpack it wherever you want it - /opt/firefox for example,
> > > and put a symlink to the binary somewhere in your $PATH. It uses
> > > the configuration and everything it can find in your home dir, so
> > > that shouldn't be a problem.
> > >
> > > Petter
> >
> > Fun & games but not S&G. Network-Manager had the last word when I
> > excised that piece of insanity, the SOB zeroed out the eth0 settings
> > in /etc/network/interfaces. Bad dog, no biscuit from me.
> >
> > All discovered and I think fixed as I appear to have restored
> > networking now.
> >
> > All triggered by discovering that the reason I was into swap all the
> > time was that for the last 12 days I had been running a 32 bit rtai
> > kernel which is NOT PAE, seems I need to edit the default number in
> > /boot/grub/grub.cnf, it is not pointing at a 64 bit 3.2.0-4amd64
> > vmlinuz. That discovery in turn triggered by firefox spitting out a
> > tummy ache on start attempts.
> >
> > I renamed the firefox script in /usr/bin/ which was actually running
> > iceweasel to /usr/bin/firefux, then made a symlink from
> >
> > /home/gene/bin/firefox-37/firefox/firefox from /usr/bin/firefox.
> >
> > So, rebooted to a true 64 bit kernel, but 64 bit firefox refuses to
> > run: gene@coyote:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/firefox
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 41 Apr 2 04:03 /usr/bin/firefox
> > -> /home/gene/bin/firefox-37/firefox/firefox Which is correct. But
> > First try it like the renamed script does it:
> > gene@coyote:~$ firefox "$@"
> > bash: /usr/bin/firefox: No such file or directory
> > Then try w/o the argument.
> > gene@coyote:~$ firefox
> > bash: /usr/bin/firefox: No such file or directory
>
> There is something wrong with your link, it links to a file it can't
> find. If you run:
>
> petter@monster:~$ ln -s foo bar
> petter@monster:~$ ./bar
> bash: ./bar: No such file or directory
>
> (provided there is no file called "foo") you see you get the same
> error. What does "ls -l /usr/bin/firefox" show you?
>
> > Its 5am, and I don't seem to have even one eye open
> > simultaineously...
>
> Therefore you've probably mistyped your symlink, I would guess :)
>
> > The firefox binary itself
> > gene@coyote:~$ ls -l bin/firefox-37/firefox/firefox
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 gene gene 147776 Mar 26 23:51
> > bin/firefox-37/firefox/firefox
> >
> > Its there and executable. I can't even run it from there with
> > sh ./firefox
> > or sh ./firefox-bin either of which gets this error:
> > gene@coyote:~/bin/firefox-37/firefox$ sh ./firefox
> > ./firefox: 2: ./firefox: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string
>
> Try "file firefox" - it will show you that it's not a script, it's a
> binary. If you run it with just "./firefox" it should work.
>
> > I could use a clue, which will probably make me slap my forhead &
> > yell Duh.
>
> Try some of the above, and report back what "file" and "ls -l" on the
> symlink shows you if it doesn't work.
The ls -l is above, file says
gene@coyote:~$ file /usr/bin/firefox
/usr/bin/firefox: symbolic link to
`/home/gene/bin/firefox-37/firefox/firefox'
gene@coyote:~/bin/firefox-37/firefox$ ./firefox
bash: ./firefox: No such file or directory
gene@coyote:~/bin/firefox-37/firefox$ ls
application.ini crashreporter.ini firefox-bin libmozalloc.so
libnssdbm3.chk libsmime3.so omni.ja run-mozilla.sh
webapprt
browser defaults gmp-clearkey libmozsqlite3.so
libnssdbm3.so libsoftokn3.chk platform.ini Throbber-small.gif
webapprt-stub
chrome.manifest dependentlibs.list icons libnspr4.so
libnssutil3.so libsoftokn3.so plugin-container updater
components dictionaries libfreebl3.chk libnss3.so
libplc4.so libssl3.so precomplete updater.ini
crashreporter firefox libfreebl3.so libnssckbi.so
libplds4.so libxul.so removed-files update-settings.ini
gene@coyote:~/bin/firefox-37/firefox$
Maybe it will make sense when I wake up again.
Thanks Petter
>
> Petter
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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