Re: Create a symbolic link to run firefox 49 ..

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OK Patrick,

my is not really a problem...I can run frefox both both from command line both using Gnome.

Other time yet I understood "by chance", after some time, how to do better something that was not  what I really would like it

thank you

Angelo

On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 1:03 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 2016-10-04 at 10:32 +0300, Angelo Moreschini wrote:
> practically you say me to create my own script to realize the connection to
> the file (script) locate in /usr/ bin (as an alternative to the creation of
> a link).

[You're still top-posting. Please stop doing that. It makes the thread
much harder to follow]

> I understand your idea:  this can 'be just an alternative -More "COMPLEX
> than to use a link- to get the same result.

Not necessarily. A script can do more than a link because it can set up
environment variables before calling the target program.

> However even before writing the script, I did an experiment
>
> the file /usr/bin/firefox exists and has execute permission:
> [angelo_dev@localhost ~]$  ls -l /usr/bin/firefox
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 6995 Nov  2  2015 /usr/bin/firefox
>
> *but is is not run :*
> [angelo_dev@localhost ~]$ sudo /usr/bin/firefox
> [sudo] password for angelo_dev:
> Error: /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox not found
>        /usr/lib/firefox/firefox not found
>

Why do you need to call firefox using sudo? I presume the errors are
caused by sudo's environment not being what Firefox needs. However I
still don't understand what your problem actually is so maybe I should
just shut up. As I said before I don't use Gnome, so creating a desktop
shortcut for that environment is outside my comfort zone. All I meant
to say is that if your target binary is for some reason in the wrong
place, you can get round it using a script. That's all.

poc
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