Firefox 3.6

theuteck at gmail.com theuteck at gmail.com
Thu Nov 17 04:32:56 UTC 2011


Or "which firefox" for an easer way.

On Thursday, November 17, 2011 02:03:34 AM Alex Gabriel wrote:
> I think the simplest way to locate the file is using the command "cd /" and
> then "find . -iname firefox" to locate the file.
> 
> You can put it all together by using
> 
> "sudo find . -iname firefox -print0 | xargs -0 chown -R yourusername:"
> 
> This will search the current directory and all subdirectories for any
> files/directories named firefox and change both the user and group to the
> "yourusername" variable.
> 
> Give that a try, it's probably the fastest way to do it.
> 
> If you want to test it beforehand, use everything before | and that will
> show you the various matches to the string.
> 
> When you've got your results, you can use "file filename" to view the file
> type. The one you want is a binary file.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Marshall <bmarsh at bmarsh.com>
> Sender: kubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:55:07
> To: <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Reply-To: Kubuntu user technical support  <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: Firefox 3.6
> 
> On Thursday, November 17, 2011 07:23:31 AM Bruce Marshall wrote:
> > Bruce,
> > 
> > I have done the above but unable to find /opt/firefox/ see below
> > output from terminal-
> > 
> > 
> > rayburke at rayburke-desktop:~$ sudo  chown -R rayburke.rayburke
> > /opt/firefox/ [sudo] password for rayburke:
> > chown: cannot access `/opt/firefox/': No such file or directory
> > rayburke at rayburke-desktop:~$
> > 
> > ray
> 
> If you were trying to issue the command I gave:
> 
> sudo  chown -R  rayburke.rayburke  /opt/firefox/
> 
> and you got that "no file"  error message,  then  you must have installed
> firefox somewhere else.....
> 
> do a:
> 
> ls -la  /opt/   and see what you get.




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