Firefox 1.0.4

NirvanaII · 07-12-2005, 06:44 PM

Hi,

Wondering if anyone can help. I downloaded Firefox 1.0.4 today, but it was gunziped (gz)and tared, this I sorted; I gather I am meant to now I am to run a file called 'firefox installer' (it has a piston icon, a clue me thinks), but when I try to do this, I get the option of either Running or display this executable file, I click Run, but nothing happens... any ideas what I need to be doing?

I am a newbie btw, so don't blind me too much with technical wizardry ; )

Thanks,

NirvanaII

leonscape · 07-12-2005, 07:10 PM

Try running it from the command line. OPen up a console and do

cd /path/to/where/installer/is
./firefox-installer

At the very least you'll find out why its not working.

Russb · 07-12-2005, 07:30 PM

First, check your system requirements:

Quote:

Linux kernel - 2.2.14 or higher with the following libraries or packages:
glibc 2.3.2 or higher
XFree86-3.3.6 or higher
gtk+2.0 or higher
fontconfig (also known as xft)
libstdc++5

As far as the installer... It is a tar.gz. I used "tar -xzvf" to unpack it, then used the command "sh firefox_installer*" inside the folder it made (If that doesn't work try "./firefox_installer*". I did this in a terminal inside Gnome (Would work in any gui I assume). I had no problems after that.

Let us know how that goes.

*not sure if the installer is named that now

NirvanaII · 07-12-2005, 07:48 PM

Hi,

Thanks for that, um, well I got this message:

error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: no such file or library

A missing file then. I checked in Nautilis, I couldn't find the file there, but maybe it's meant to be elsewhere on the system, if it is missing? I don't what to do next, any ideas?

Thankyou kindly,

NirvanaII

Russb · 07-12-2005, 07:57 PM

What distro are you using?

In slackware I would thow in the install disk, choose install packages and reinstall the library packages without changing anything else...

In fact had to do that last night!