On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 06:34:48AM +0000, John Russell wrote:
> Well Robert, I gave it a shot. I get the icon pointing to Firefox,
> and it gets as far as loading the application, then it quits.
>
> I also tried Scott's suggestion using 'apt-cache search firefox' and
> I get a small bit of dialog indentifying the application, but that's
> about it.
>
> I seem to have trouble running executables outside of the built-in
> software in general. It's strange since I have root level access and
> can perform any admin tasks I want to.
Ubuntu and its clones are, (as is Debian in general) often a little
peculiar about running apps not gotten from apt-get. They put libraries
and such in strange places,which is one possible reason.
You can try going into that firefox directory you've created, or even
from your home directory just try doing
firefox/firefox
at a command line (that is, from an xterm) and see what happens.
When you did apt-cache search firefox, didn't they list a program that
could be gotten through apt-get? (You can also try apt-cache search
mozilla-firefox and see if you have better luck.)
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