Other Help Topics :: Firefox from command line?



But then if it's in your path then this discussion would not have occured :p
How about opening up the Fluxbox menu file and take a peek at the Firefox exec command?

It is located at /home/dsl/.fluxbox/menu
Thanks for the tip. The & after is even better!
But wy do I have to type /usr/local/bin/bla/bla/bla ?
Wy not just firefox? Seems like thy put the firefox in the wrong directories.
Is there a way to fix this? I tried it but nada. I only get errormessages.
Is there a way to create a link in the /usr/local/bin to firefox?
And can you do this with MC ?
why: because firefox is not in your path.  PATH is an environment variable which contains a list of directories searched whenever you issue a command. If a directory is not in your path, any executables in that directory will need to be started with a full or relative path.

how: if you are using a harddrive install, or if you have /ramdisk/usr/local/bin, you can make a symlink:
sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/firefox/firefox /usr/local/bin/
Or if you don't have a writeable bin directory, you could link it somewhere within your $HOME directory add that directory to your path:
export PATH=/home/dsl/somedir:$PATH

In mc, press <Ctrl>x, then s.  Link will be made in the opposite directory to the selected file.  only works as root in system directories.
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