Hi Folks,

This is stupid and I know it but I'm trying to upgrade/install firefox 1.5. I was running 1.0.7 with no problem. I've since uninstall 1.0.7 and for the life of me I cannot get firefox 1.5 working.

I've tried

1. Installing rpm, it seems to install fine, creates a firefox directory in /usr/lib but I cant start firefox at all.

2. Unzipping .tar.gz file into /usr/lib and again it creates the relevant directory and I still cant open firefox.

I know this is a beginners mistake but I cant figure out what it is.

Any help is much appreciated, even the best way to go about installing Firefox would be great

Lowebb

What happens if you run:
fron xterm?

running this brings the error

/usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

no idea what this means. anyone?

You should read this and then go and install compat-libstdc++-33

Thanks that done the trick. When I read your reply I was instantly about to reply 'but I've install libstdc++ libraries but I decided to check out the other post to youpointed me towards and sure enough compact-libstdc++ is something else.

I dont know what I'd do without linuxquestions.org

Cheers