On 21/02/13 11:39, Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I've just installed wheezy/KDE on a spare machine, to see what we're
>> getting. All seems OK, apart from one mystery:
>>
>> I installed a copy of Firefox-18.0.2 in /usr/local, with a symlink
>> pointing to it, as I have done in Squeeze and earlier for years.
>>
>> Typing "/usr/local/firefox/firefox" always used to start it with no
>> problem. However, on the wheezy box, I'm getting:
>> ---
>> tony@tony-dlt:~$ /usr/local/firefox/firefox
>> bash: /usr/local/firefox/firefox: cannot execute binary file
>> ---
>>
>> Well, WTF, as they say. Does anyone know of a change that causes this?
> 
> Is the copy of firefox the same architetcture of the spare machine? Aren't
> you trying to run a 64bit executable in a 32bit machine?
> 
Ah, bum! Yes, that's exactly what I'm trying to do.
<Hangs head in shame>

Thanks!

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