Installing Firefox 1.0.7 i686 on Fedora 4 i386

[Daniel Anderson]

On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 08:24 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
> 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.
> 
> -- 
> Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>
> 
On another distro I created a symbolic with the name of the older
library pointing to the newer library and it worked.

Dan