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 <pocallag...@gmail.com> 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 > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org >
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