Trouble installing Firefox on Sabayon 3.3b 64-bit

lakedude · 03-01-2008, 05:27 AM

Hi I've been casually using Linux for years in the form of live CDs and a Knoppix USB key I made. The only command line stuff I've ever done is making the USB key. Firefox intalls with just a click on my Knoppix USB key so I don't know how to do it the hard way.

I've finally commited to running Linux full time on one machine. I tried a bunch of distros and Sayabon worked the best at picking up the wireless, the HD and the video card. All the other distros I tried had some kind of problem but Sabayon worked great.

Anyhow after installing Sayabon to the HD I downloaded Firefox for Linux and tried to install it but it didn't work. It generates this message:

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./firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Evidently I'm missing some "libraries" or something. Can anyone help with this?

weibullguy · 03-01-2008, 12:16 PM

Most likely you installed a 32-bit version of Firefox and it can't find the non-existent 32-bit GTK+ libraries. I'm not familiar with Sabayon so I don't know if it is standards compliant. If it is standards compliant, you can install the missing 32-bit libraries to get Firefox to work. If not standards compliant, then you will need to install a 64-bit version of Firefox.

lakedude · 03-01-2008, 02:13 PM

Thanks!

It sounds like it might save trouble in the long run to switch to the 32 bit version? I was reading that even though Firefox is available in 64 bit, many of the plugins (like java) are only available in 32 bit.

I did try the newest 64 bit version of Sayabon 3.4e and for some reason (like a lot of other distros) is didn't automatically find the wireless card but 3.3b does??

I've got 3.4a 32 bit I'm going to try it and see how it works....

AceofSpades19 · 03-01-2008, 02:15 PM

firefox comes with saboyan

Emerson · 03-01-2008, 02:47 PM

Sabayon is Gentoo-based, right? To install software you open a terminal window, su -, and type emerge -av mozilla-firefox-bin. On a multilib system this is all you need to do to get 32-bit firefox.

lakedude · 03-01-2008, 10:34 PM

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Originally Posted by AceofSpades19

firefox comes with saboyan

It does come with Sabayon, sort of. I can easily find the Firefox link in fluxbox mode but I don't see it at all in the normal KDE desktop environment. Fluxbox does not work correctly installed the way it is for some reason so Firefox remains unaccessible (to me at my skill level).

I find it very strange that out of 8-10 distros tried only Puppy and Sabayon found all my hardware out of the box. It is really strange that newer versions of Sabayon don't see the stinking Asus PCI wireless card.

Knoppix crashed
Simply MEPIS saw the card one time but for some reason no long works.
MEPIS Anti-X, Gentoo, and Kubuntu do not see the wireless or the HD.
64 bit Sabayon 3.4 sees the HD but not the wireless card.

Puppy works great BTW. Id use it except I prefer KDE so I was trying to find a distro with a KDE desktop.

lakedude · 03-01-2008, 10:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Emerson

Sabayon is Gentoo-based, right? To install software you open a terminal window, su -, and type emerge -av mozilla-firefox-bin. On a multilib system this is all you need to do to get 32-bit firefox.

Sayabon is Gentoo based but they are very different, at least to the untrained eye. Gentoo uses Gnome and does not automatically see my network card. Sabayon uses KDE (with flux available) so it looks completely different. Sabayon also installs those fancy 3d Beryl desktop eye candies so it looks pretty fancy.

Anyhow I'll try your suggestion in a sec, Thanks!

AceofSpades19 · 03-01-2008, 10:50 PM

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Originally Posted by lakedude

It does come with Sabayon, sort of. I can easily find the Firefox link in fluxbox mode but I don't see it at all in the normal KDE desktop environment. Fluxbox does not work correctly installed the way it is for some reason so Firefox remains unaccessible (to me at my skill level).

I find it very strange that out of 8-10 distros tried only Puppy and Sabayon found all my hardware out of the box. It is really strange that newer versions of Sabayon don't see the stinking Asus PCI wireless card.

Knoppix crashed
Simply MEPIS saw the card one time but for some reason no long works.
MEPIS Anti-X, Gentoo, and Kubuntu do not see the wireless or the HD.
64 bit Sabayon 3.4 sees the HD but not the wireless card.

Puppy works great BTW. Id use it except I prefer KDE so I was trying to find a distro with a KDE desktop.

type firefox at the run dialog or the command prompt

lakedude · 03-01-2008, 11:00 PM

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Originally Posted by AceofSpades19

type firefox at the run dialog or the command prompt

Logged in as root. Hit "run command", typed in firefox. Got:

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"could not run specified command"

lakedude · 03-01-2008, 11:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Emerson

open a terminal window, su -, and type emerge -av mozilla-firefox-bin.

doing that now:

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These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild N ] app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-qtlibs-10.0-r1 25,556 kB
[ebuild N ] app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-gtklibs-10.0 11,976 kB
[ebuild N ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin-2.0.0.2 LINGUAS="-af -ar -be -bg -ca -cs -da -de -el -en_GB -es -es_AR -es_ES -eu -fi -fr -fy -fy_NL -ga -ga_IE -gu -gu_IN -he -hu -it -ja -ka -ko -ku -lt -mk -mn -nb -nb_NO -nl -nn -nn_NO -pa -pa_IN -pl -pt -pt_BR -pt_PT -ru -sk -sl -sv -sv_SE -tr -zh -zh_CN -zh_TW" 9,426 kB

Total: 3 packages (3 new), Size of downloads: 46,957 kB

Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] yes

EDIT: UPDATE!

Awesome! Firefox lives.

First: emerge -av mozilla-firefox-bin
Next: Run "firefox"

Sweet!!Thanks for the help...

Now if it isn't too much trouble... how do I get an icon or shortcut on the desktop?

lakedude · 03-01-2008, 11:35 PM

Ok Firefox lives but I tried to install Flash and it failed.

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Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070220 Firefox/2.0.0.2

I think I got the 64 bit version of Firefox?? Can you tell? It said something about 32-bit while installing but the help/about says x86_64??

AceofSpades19 · 03-02-2008, 12:44 AM

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Originally Posted by lakedude

Logged in as root. Hit "run command", typed in firefox. Got:

you shouldn't login as root

weibullguy · 03-02-2008, 01:15 AM

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Originally Posted by lakedude

Ok Firefox lives but I tried to install Flash and it failed.
I think I got the 64 bit version of Firefox?? Can you tell?

Use the file command. This is the output from a 32-bit Firefox.

Code:

112 files(103k bytes) - /home/weibullguy
weibullguy@aragorn for 7D3h27m $ file /opt/firefox/firefox-bin
/opt/firefox/firefox-bin: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.2.5, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped

And this is the output for a 64-bit program

Code:

112 files(103k bytes) - /home/weibullguy
weibullguy@aragorn for 7D3h27m $ file /usr/bin/evolution
/usr/bin/evolution: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped

See the difference?

Emerson · 03-02-2008, 07:25 AM

First, as already mentioned, you do not log in as root. You start it up as regular user. For installation tasks you open a terminal and "su -" to root.
Second, to install flash you type emerge -av netscape-flash. This will install flash for your 32-bit browser you just installed.

lakedude · 03-02-2008, 06:28 PM

Thanks for all the help so far. I'm not logging in as root anymore...

I decided to give up on 3.3 64-bit in favor of 3.4 32-bit. Firefox is pre-installed on 3.4. Also 3.4 comes with Portato which evidently does something similar to emerge. 3.4 also has M-player instead of Caffine by default so 3.4 is much closer to my ideal straight out of the box. In fact almost everything works perfectly already.

I'm about to try to use Portato to install Flash, wish me luck....