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Firefox installation problem on Debian 8.2.

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Tonto
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Firefox installation problem on Debian 8.2.

#1 Post by Tonto »

I've just installed firefox-60.0.2.tar.bz2 in /opt/ on a new Debian installation. Running the executable directly gives the following:

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qtm:~># cd /opt/firefox
qtm:firefox># ls -l firefox*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 500 500 202664 Jun  6 04:28 firefox
-rwxr-xr-x 1 500 500 202736 Jun  6 04:28 firefox-bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 500 500   1449 Jun  6 04:35 firefox-bin.sig
-rw-r--r-- 1 500 500   1449 Jun  6 04:35 firefox.sig
qtm:firefox># ./firefox
bash: ./firefox: No such file or directory
qtm:firefox># 
I'm unsure what the exit message means. Could someone please enlighten me?

cronoik
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Re: Firefox installation problem on Debian 8.2.

#2 Post by cronoik »

Are you trying to execute a 32 bit firefox on a 64 bit Jessie? Please post the output of:

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file /opt/firefox/firefox
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uname -a
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Tonto
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Re: Firefox installation problem on Debian 8.2.

#3 Post by Tonto »

Yes, dammit! Of course. Sorry to bother you good folks. My first 64-bit machine so I'm making stupid errors.

Thanks for your perspicacity.

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Re: Firefox installation problem on Debian 8.2.

#4 Post by stevepusser »

Bad idea to run a browser as root, too...
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Re: Firefox installation problem on Debian 8.2.

#5 Post by Wheelerof4te »

If you are the only user, just extract the tarball in your /home.

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