Firefox not working after on line updates

Cameron Simpson cs at zip.com.au
Tue Dec 22 21:47:51 UTC 2009


On 22Dec2009 08:24, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
| Frank Cox wrote:
| > On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 16:31 -0600, Brian Wood wrote:
| >> I downloaded/built/installed a new version of sqlite, but that hasn't
| >> helped. 
| >
| > This is likely your problem.  Firefox probably expects to find sqlite
| > installed from a Fedora rpm and not a homebuilt one.
| >   
| All this is rather strange since I did a
| rpm --test -e sqlite
| 
| There is no "is needed by (installed) firefox"  but there is "is needed
| by (installed) thunderbird".
| 
| So, it would not appear that firefox is dependent on sqlite.

Well, its rpm isn't; bad rpm spec file? The bookmarks/places stuff uses an
sqlite db, so firefox definitely does need sqlite from somewhere.
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