strange problem with firefox under FC4

[Turóczy Attila]

Root$: yum install firefox*

This may be work.

Attila
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> Bonjour,
>
> I have just installed FC4 on a machine and firefox is not working!
>
> Here is what I have done: install from CD the "official distro", the run
> yum update.
>
> when I "click" the icon for web browsing: nothing happens!
>
> launching firefox from terminal does nothing!
>
> strace firefox in a terminal gives a lot of "no such file or directory"
> warnings; for instance:
>
> open("/usr/lib/firefox-1.0.4/tls/i686/sse2/libexpat.so.0", O_RDONLY) =
> - -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> open("/usr/lib/firefox-1.0.4/tls/i686/libexpat.so.0", O_RDONLY) = -1
> ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> open("/usr/lib/firefox-1.0.4/tls/sse2/libexpat.so.0", O_RDONLY) = -1
> ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> open("/usr/lib/firefox-1.0.4/tls/libexpat.so.0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT
> (No such file or directory)
> open("/usr/lib/firefox-1.0.4/i686/sse2/libexpat.so.0", O_RDONLY) = -1
> ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> open("/usr/lib/firefox-1.0.4/i686/libexpat.so.0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT
> (No such file or directory)
> open("/usr/lib/firefox-1.0.4/sse2/libexpat.so.0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT
> (No such file or directory)
> open("/usr/lib/firefox-1.0.4/libexpat.so.0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No
> such file or directory)
>
> Seems that some libraries are missing! But why the depandencies were not
> given by yum? (if my example refers to version  1.0.4, it is because I
> came back to this version after updating, using yum, to se if the
> problem did not come from 1.0.7 version).
>
> /etc/ld.so.conf contains only: include ld.so.conf.d/*.conf
>
> and directory ld.so.conf.d/ contains only:
> qt-i386.conf
> xorg-x11-i386.conf
>
> It appears srange to me!
>
> What can I do?
>
> Thank you for any help.
>
> PS. I have done the "same" install on another machine and everything run
> smoothly.... Strange!
>
> - --
> François Patte
> UFR de mathématiques et informatique
> Université René Descartes
> http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
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