FireFox 2 was installed but I’ve managed to hide it by accident while I wad trying to upgrade to FireFox 7, and can’t manage to make it work again. If I click to go onto internet it says could not run command, failed to execute child process.
Any ideas as to how to fix it?
In the short term, (if you haven’t uninstalled Firefox 2) you should be able to run Firefox 2 by opening a terminal and running:
/usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.14/firefox
OK now let’s try fixing Firefox 7.0.1
Did you follow the instructions on THIS forum:
http://linuxforums.org.uk/index.php?topic=9707.0
or did you get them from elsewhere ?
Can you open a terminal and run the following commands, and post back the output from each of them.
/opt/firefox/firefox
and
ls -a /opt
and
ls -a /opt/firefox
and
ls -al /usr/bin/firefox
and
ls -al ~/firefox-7.0.tar.bz2
Hi, it was from post on here, but its first time using Linux.
The desktop still there.
1st command took to yahoo page
2nd to Adobe FireFox gkxdatacard (written in blue)
3rd was a bit scary and brought up a load of writing, can’t figure out how to copy and paste.
4th and 5th both said no such file or directory
Really confused. Have I broken it?
this is what thed 3rd co9mmand put out
[user@localhost ~]$ ls -a /opt/firefox
. libfreebl3.chk libxul.so
… libfreebl3.so mozilla-xremote-client
application.ini libmozalloc.so omni.jar
blocklist.xml libmozsqlite3.so platform.ini
chrome libnspr4.so plugin-container
chrome.manifest libnss3.so plugins
components libnssckbi.so precomplete
crashreporter libnssdbm3.chk README.txt
crashreporter.ini libnssdbm3.so removed-files
crashreporter-override.ini libnssutil3.so run-mozilla.sh
defaults libplc4.so searchplugins
dependentlibs.list libplds4.so Throbber-small.gif
extensions libsmime3.so update.locale
firefox libsoftokn3.chk updater
firefox-bin libsoftokn3.so updater.ini
hyphenation libssl3.so
icons libxpcom.so
can you confirm that:
/opt/firefox/firefox
run in a terminal, opens firefox 7.0.1
Hi, yes, it takes me straight to homepage. Really not sure what I’ve done for it to not let me go on the internet normally
It runs 7.0.1 using the command
OK, it appears that the symlink never got created … open a terminal and run:
sudo ln -vfs /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox
This is what I expect to be returned from the last command:
`/usr/bin/firefox' -> `/opt/firefox/firefox'if you get anything else, let me know what it is.
Now test if your desktop shortcut works.
[EDIT]
Probably best to copy/paste that command, then also visually check it before running it, as it has to be EXACT.
Yay, you fixed it. You are a genius! Thank you so much for your help.
No problem … don’t forget to update the flash player 
Here’s a link to how:
http://linuxforums.org.uk/netbooks/acer-aspire-one-linpus-lite-flash-player/msg68331/#msg68331
Will do it now, thank you again
If I were you, I’d give serious consideration to ditching Linpus Lite in favour of PeppermintOS (Two)
It’s newer, gives VERY easy access to all the latest software (few mouse clicks), and has a more “normal” desktop similar to the Windows one.
There’s a tutorial and reasons why you should here:
http://linuxforums.org.uk/index.php?topic=9782.0