Hi , I am trying to install firefox 10.0.2. My linux redhat version is ,
2.6.9-5.ELsmp and gcc version is ,2.3.4-2. I copied firefox to /usr/lib area -/usr/lib/firefox. Then i did a soft link for firefox in bin ,
ln -s /usr/lib/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox
Now when i try to open firefox i get the below error,

XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/lib/firefox/libxpcom.so:
libxul.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Couldn't load XPCOM.

Can you please help me out.

First, it would be nice to know if you're forced for whatever reason to use the desktop distro you use. Then, why the supplied version with the distro (including the updates) is not useful for you, including the derived debate of facing these two incompatible points.

If finally you find that have to go out of the distro packaging and find a better installer, the basics are follow the installation instructions of the program you're about to install, which should be reliable. If you then decide to go out of these instructions, you should be on your own, but instead you decide to ask somewhere out there like this. Of course we'll try to help you, but at the price for you of trying to understand what you're doing and after going back to a point you follow the steps (regardless you do a different setup later) and find it works. At that point, that will give us both basic info that you haven't provided and we'll all know if the original works and the problem resides only on your later setup or not. Of course, that will help you to find a solution on your own.

If finally the situation is this and you haven't found a solution, I guess it's related to adding to LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable the path where the libraries mentioned in the error reside, and try again.


Of course it's always good to learn anything, but developers and package builders dedicate effort to these things not to happen, beyond creating a problem where theorically there should be none.

Sorry for the long post and I don't mean it's your case, but there are still many people out there not being aware of their behaviour, and this could be a place for it.

Josh, there can be contention between versions. The safest way i think is to extract the firefox-10.0.2.tar.bz2 file into the /opt then by way of terminal cd into /opt/firefox/ folder then issue "./firefox" from the terminal. Observe the terminal outputs because if there is something wrong the terminal will enumerate the errors.

Good luck. Hope that helps.

mm

Welcome to LQ.

Firefox-10* cannot be used in your seven year old Redhat EL 4 or similar.

The usable version is firefox-3.6.2x, when you install the dependencies:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...rprise-736174/
I.e. the evolution28* packages.

Start firefox with : export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/evolution28/lib/ && ./firefox

3.6.26 : http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all-older.html

EDIT : firefox-3.6.27 is available now from the above link.
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It's better to upgrade system.
You can get the free versions of Rhel, which are centos fidora & a few others.
They may not be updated versions but are Redhat like or based.

seeing as you already did this
you already KILLED the working firefox 3.6 ( assuming this is RHEL4.9 )
it is dead
call your red hat tech support - you ARE paying for it ? right?

force reinstall the OLD and unsupported firefox 3.6 from the rhel4.9 RHN repo
you are paying red hat to use this ( was dead ,then resurrected 4) for the extra 3 years of security updates

if you HAVE to use rhel4 then
live with what is there

You have 2 running versions of ff go to the directiry that you installed ff to & click on firefox to se if it opens.