problem installing firefox

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Lars E. Pettersson wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 15:25, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> > Why not grab the Fedora RPMs?  The latest Firefox is in the
> > fedora.redhat.com/downloads development tree.  Grab them and the
> > desktop-file-utils RPM and have at it.
>
> On a fully updated Fedora 2 I get:
>
> [root at server root]# rpm -Uvh firefox-0.10.1-1.0PR1.9.i386.rpm
> desktop-file-utils-0.9-1.i386.rpm
> warning: desktop-file-utils-0.9-1.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key
> ID 30c9ecf8
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         libstdc++.so.6 is needed by firefox-0.10.1-1.0PR1.9
>         libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4) is needed by firefox-0.10.1-1.0PR1.9
> [root at server root]#
>
> So it seem to be a bit more complicated than that...

Ah, yes.

   [mjs at vincent52 mthsc.119]$ rpm -q --whatprovides libstdc++.so.6
   libstdc++34-3.4.0-1

   [mjs at vincent52 mthsc.119]$ whichcd libstdc++34
   You appear to be running Fedora Core 2.
   I'll search for rpms for that version.
   Searching for libstdc++34...

   CD-3:libstdc++34-3.4.0-1.i386.rpm
   CD-3:libstdc++34-devel-3.4.0-1.i386.rpm

This is a development machine, so it has most of the bleeding-edge
libraries installed.  There's a long list of dependencies, but
desktop-file-utils is the only one that isn't supplied with FC2 AFAICT.

You could probably also just rebuild from the SRPM.

>
> I got 0.10.1 installed using the information at
> http://fedoranews.org/tchung/firefox/ That solution works for me until
> FC3 is out.
>
> Lars
>

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		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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