Firefox problem does not run

HI,
I used excellent beginners guide Wiki to install archlinux, then desktop, but everytime I run
pacman -S firefox
it seems to finish installing but when I try to use it by clicking on it on the desktop
it does not do anything. No message, it just does nothing. The only suggestion I have seen
elsewhere is to install a dependency (desktop-utils?) which I did try but it did not have
any noticeable effect.
I don't get it, please help!
p.s tried it with Gnome and KDE Desktop, on two different installs

Thankyou everyone for your feedback, I used all your posts and now the problem is solved for me.
I don't know the specific step(s) I took that made it work but just for the record
here is what I did...
NB: I did this on a fresh install of arch linux (no previous attempts to install firefox)
As root user in terminal:
pacman -S firefox
to install package. Then I immediately rebooted my computer and once back in the
desktop I opened a terminal (as user) and entered
echo $PATH
to check that there was /opt/mozilla/bin. Then I entered
cd /opt/mozilla/bin
to change to that directory and then entered
firefox
to launch from terminal. It did so with no problem and then I closed firefox browser and
tested the K Menu Launcher and it also worked. Great! Thanks again
Last edited by ilnux (2007-11-30 17:14:54)

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