firefox on redhat 8

rpb · 05-07-2005, 07:33 AM

hi,

i was trying to install firefox rpm 1.0.3 on my redhat 8 machine. i got a big list of dependency failures, starting from glibc to a lot others.

now my question is do i have any way of installing it without having to anything about these dependencies? intuitively, this seems a little more towards negative to me, becoz firefox might be using a lot of new features of these upgraded libraries. but just wanted to be sure; either way..

so, geeks can i hear from you?

thanks,
rpb

reddazz · 05-07-2005, 09:04 AM

Unfortunately if those dependencies are not met, you can't install the rpm. You will probably find it a bit tedious to install all the necessay depenencies on an old distro like RH 8. You may try installing from the firefox installer available from the Mozilla website.

rpb · 05-13-2005, 06:31 AM

yeah, its really unfortunate that i cannot install firefox when a windows user can do it easily...

anyway i tried with a compiled binary that was available somewhere..the ./firefox file works, but hardly anything changes other than my bookmarks getting vanished !! anyway, i guess the only solution will be to upgrade!! lets see

-rpb

reddazz · 05-13-2005, 07:11 AM

This is a problem to do wih your gtk2 dependencies. You could upgrade your version of gtk2, but then you would need to then upgrade a whole heap of dependent apps.