Installing Firefox 1.0.7 i686 on Fedora 4 i386

[Paul Howarth]

On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 23:54 -0800, peter wu wrote:
> Hi, all,
> 
> I have Fedora 4, and wanted to upgrade Firefox from version 1.0.4 that
> came with installation CD to version 1.0.7. However, installing the
> new version gives me the following error msg:
> 
> -----------
> [root at localhost firefox-installer]# ./firefox-installer
> ./firefox-installer-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc
> ++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

The firefox binary you downloaded was built against older C++ libraries
than the ones used in FC4.

> I found out that in /usr/lib, there is libstdc++.so.6 instead of
> libstdc++.so.5. I did some googling, and somehow managed to put
> libstdc++.so.5 as well. Now I get the following msg:
> 
> -------------
> [root at localhost firefox-installer]# ./firefox-installer
> 
> (firefox-installer-bin:32430): Pango-WARNING **: Invalid UTF-8 string
> passed to pango_layout_set_text()
> 
> (firefox-installer-bin:32430): Pango-WARNING **: Invalid UTF-8 string
> passed to pango_layout_set_text()
> 
> (firefox-installer-bin:32430): Pango-WARNING **: Invalid UTF-8 string
> passed to pango_layout_set_text()
> 
> (firefox-installer-bin:32430): Pango-WARNING **: Invalid UTF-8 string
> passed to pango_layout_set_text()
> [root at localhost
> firefox-installer]# /usr/firefox-installer/firefox-bin: error while
> loading shared libraries: libXp.so.6: cannot open shared object file:
> No such file or directory
> -----------
> 
> Also, I realize that Firefox 1.0.7 is for i686, whereas I have Fedorr
> 4 i386. Could this be the problem???

Save yourself a lot of trouble and do (as root) "yum update firefox".
Your existing firefox will then be upgraded to the official FC4 version
of 1.0.7.

Paul.

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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>