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I goofed! Firefox

So, for some reason that my brain cannot register, I installed mozilla-firefox-60.2.0esr-i686-1.txz using upgradepkg --install-new mozilla-firefox-60.2.0esr-i686-1.txz, but this ended up breaking my Firefox (that was available out of the box). When I run firefox, iI get a message KDEinit could not launch /usr/bin/firefox

Any pointers for how I can fix this?

I am attempting to find mozilla-firefox-60.2.0esr-i686-1.txz to remove it to see if that fixes it.

if I wer you first I would open a terminal and see what

Code:

which firefox

outputs, then I would launch

Code:

firefox

from the same terminal and watch the output

Thanks. using [which] command it shows /usr/bin/firefox

When i use firefox & the output is no such file /usr/bin/firefox, although the file is there

that's most probably because you installed a 32bit firefox on a 64bit slackware: you can check it basically with two commands

Code:

file -L /usr/bin/firefox

Code:

file /usr/bin/file

the output here is

Code:

# file -L /usr/bin/firefox

/usr/bin/firefox: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=4feae7118b6df7b1b9d87a395db5969971e2239e, stripped

# file /usr/bin/file

/usr/bin/file: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, stripped

in this case doing

Code:

removepkg mozilla-firefox

slackpkg install mozilla-firefox

should be enough.

Thanks Ponce. That worked perfectly.