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I've tried building Firefox from sources on my raspberry pi using the following commands but starting firefox produces this error: -bash: /usr/bin/firefox: can't execute this file. (translated manually). How can I fix this problem?
sudo apt-src install firefox
sudo apt-src build firefox
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
MeinAccount
Posted 2014-01-23T21:07:10.537
Reputation: 113
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On the Raspberry Pi and Debian you need to install Iceweasel. It is Mozilla's browser for that distribution. Run: 'sudo apt-get install iceweasel' and you should be able to install without any changed repositories. See the link below:
http://elinux.org/RPi_IceWeasel
If you are absolutely bent on getting full-fledged Firefox on the RPi, here is a link that may be helpful. There is a lot of extra work as opposed to using Iceweasel:
http://featherweightmusings.blogspot.com/2013/03/firefox-on-raspberry-pi.html
Mike Naylor
Posted 2014-01-23T21:07:10.537
Reputation: 537
Can you post output of the following command:
file /usr/bin/firefox? – VL-80 – 2014-01-23T21:23:34.987/usr/bin/firefox: symbolic link to \/opt/firefox/firefox'` – MeinAccount – 2014-01-24T17:11:14.887Good. Now can you post output of
file /opt/firefox/firefox? – VL-80 – 2014-01-24T17:39:07.837/opt/firefox/firefox: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.18, BuildID[sha1]=0x6e884103555b3e2bc8ecc62624d2d8123d61980e, stripped– MeinAccount – 2014-01-24T21:48:30.233Your Firefox is compiled for i386 architecture (
Intel 80386). Raspberry PI has ARM processor - it is different architecture, thus you are getting errorcan't execute this file. ARM processor can not run binary compiled for i386 arch. Not sure howapt-srcworks and what it does but looks like you did not compile Firefox, but sort of extracted pre-compiled version. I guess on Raspberry PI it will take really long time to compile Firefox. How long did you wait for it to compile? – VL-80 – 2014-01-24T22:06:00.253