On 2026-05-14 at 04:40, Anssi Saari wrote: > The Wanderer <[email protected]> writes: > >> If you examine your filesystem itself, via e.g. 'ls -lh >> /usr/bin/firefox.real', do you see a file by that name? > > Do you?
No, but I also run an ancient version of Firefox from a self-compiled package (with patches to make it actually build with more modern libraries/tools), so there's no guarantee at all that that version uses the same diversions as a more recent packaged version would. > I checked two systems, on both /usr/bin/firefox is a short script to > exec either firefox.real or firefox-esr, from firefox-esr package. > And /usr/bin/firefox.real on one machine is a broken symlink, dated > 2010 and pointing to ../lib/iceweasel/iceweasel. On the other, it > doesn't exist. Interesting. I do know that I've seen firefox.real mentioned before, and I think seen the actual file in some cases, but it *has* been a fair number of years since I actually looked at it... I think Michel Verdier hit on the key piece of information here, however, in his(?) post in this thread this morning. I spotted it myself, while writing this mail, but only after having skimmed his(?) message enough to be reminded of the /var/lib/dpkg/info/ directory as a place to check. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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