FS#2042 - firefox bin not in the path [so not even the .desktop cannot run it!]

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Nikos Kouremenos (zeppelin) - Wednesday, 19 January 2005, 17:13 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Current
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture not specified
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

[nk@Freud ~]€ whereis firefox
firefox: /opt/mozilla/bin/firefox
[nk@Freud ~]€ which firefox
which: no firefox in (/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/opt/bin:/opt/gnome/bin/:/opt/jython-2.1/:/opt/gecko-sdk/bin:/opt/gnome/bin:/opt/java/jre/bin:/opt/mono/bin:/opt/qt/bin)

if there's nothing wrong with my system, I wonder how the package mantainer didn't see this. Just curious
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Monday, 24 January 2005, 23:48 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Wednesday, 19 January 2005, 18:15 GMT
Hmm, I'll leave this one open then, since nobody reads the ones I close.

You need to re-login, because mozilla-common has been updated to add /opt/mozilla/bin to the $PATH and some other settings related to MANPATH and PKG_CONFIG_PATH.
Comment by Nikos Kouremenos (zeppelin) - Thursday, 20 January 2005, 00:26 GMT
oh :)
Comment by Nikos Kouremenos (zeppelin) - Thursday, 20 January 2005, 00:27 GMT
I really wish (if there was a way to automatically do that {source the files}, or at least inform the user to source them manually}

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