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I upgraded to Firefox 8.0.1 on my Debian Lenny box and now Firefox won't start at all.

I downloaded the installer in /var/username/Desktop, extracted it to /usr/local and created a symbolic link to /usr/bin/firefox.

After that, if I type Firefox from the home directory it gives me the following message:

-bash: /usr/bin/firefox: No such file or directory

What am I doing wrong here?

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I tried this sudo ln -s /usr/local/firefox /usr/bin/firefox and still i get the same message – rivlinp Dec 4 '11 at 15:57
i mean i created a symbolic link by this command - sudo ln -s /usr/local/firefox /usr/bin/firefox and then if i type firefox i get the message stating no such file or directory – rivlinp Dec 4 '11 at 23:21
sorry about that i was logged in as super user. I updated the message i am getting back. Still the same message – rivlinp Dec 5 '11 at 14:33
Its finally working. My problem was i was using 32 bit version of ff. I installed the 64 one and it works fine now. Thanks all for your help. – rivlinp Dec 5 '11 at 19:32
Could you post that as an answer and accept it? You'll get some reputation for it. :) – Tom Wijsman Dec 17 '11 at 3:17
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The problem was i was using 32 bit version of ff. I installed the 64 one and it works fine now. Thanks all for your help.

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