Ithought I mentioned that apt installed debian's "mozilla 1.5-3". That's what the "about" entry in the help menu of the browser reports. I gree that the /etc/ file points to alternatives, as the name suggests. In my case it points to /usr/bin/mozilla-1.5 .
Rather puzzling, then, that it doesn't launch mozilla, wouldn't you say? Incidentally, that's where the menu link points as well. On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 10:30, Ray Olszewski wrote: > I don't use Mozilla here so can't help you with most of what you ask about. > I can clear up one bit of confusion, though. > > At 09:43 AM 12/16/2003 +1100, Peter Garrett wrote: > [...] > >Can anyone explain what might have happened? BTW, "which mozilla" > >returns /usr/bin/mozilla, and checking "ls -al /usr/bin/mozilla" shows > >that it is a link to "/etc/alternatives/mozilla". > >"/usr/bin/MozillaFirebird" is not a link; it appears to be the > >executable binary, or the launch script for it. > > > >I'm cautious about altering the link for /usr/bin/mozilla, as I assume > >it is a way for Debian to find the binary... but then the link doesn't > >do what it's designed to do! > > Are you sure? /etc/alternatives/mozilla will itself be a link to something, > to whatever real app is supposed to be running as "mozilla". This is a > standard bit of Debianish stuff ... if you look in /etc/alternatives, you > should find you have links for any number of apps that come in many > versions, including such basics (on my system, anyway) as vi, editor, awk, > and telnet. You need to see what the /etc/alternatives/mozilla symlink > points to in order to figure out what is going on with your system. It > might well point back to "/usr/bin/MozillaFirebird", for example. > > As to your general problems ... please do recall that Sid is currently the > Unstable version of Debian. It gets weird from time to time, though the > weirdness is usually transitory ("dpkg-reconfigure" is one good response to > this; so is waiting an hour and doing an apt-get update/upgrade). > > Also, Sid changes often enough that saying you installed the "latest" of > anything is no help ... you really should report a package version, please look in my original post and above > unless > (a) you literally installed just before you sent the message and (b) you > hope for help only from someone who also installed just before reading the > message. > > Since "mozilla" is a wrapper package that installs other packages as > dependencies (works the same way as the kernel packae James was asking > about earlier today), you may just have hit some sort of transient > mismatch among the dependencies. > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs