firefox/sea monkey won't start on new install of slackware 11
Hi - thanks for taking the time to read this. I just did a fresh install of Slackware 11 on a Dell PowerEdge 2550 Server. Just for informational purporse, i had to pass the raid.s parameter to the Kernel, in order for it to recognize my raided scsi disks.
However, when i login and type startx, KDE starts fine. When I click firefox, i get the "hourglass mouse" (or whatever you want to call it), for about 30 seconds, then it goes away. The same thing happens when i try and start Sea Monkey. HOWEVER - KONQUERER works. I did a fresh install of Slackware 11 on a Dell Optiplex GX 280, and everything is fine. (firefox and sea monkey and everything works fine) I will close by saying that IMHO, Slackware is the finest Linux Distro on the market today. Super stable, reliable, very fast, etc. Kudos to Patrick!!! |
Open Konsole and type "firefox". Then tell us what messages you get.
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what i get from the console
HI - thanks so much for the speedy reply.
When i go to /usr/bin and type firefox, i get the following output. erorr while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: Cannot open shared object file - no such file or directory. I did some research, and i found out that that file is part of the gtk2+1.2.10-i386-3.tgz package that is on the #1 disk of the Slackware install. I recently installed slackware on another system, with no problems. However - when i was installing it on this server, i got a "fatal error" on a few of the packages when it was installing. This could be due to the fact that some burned cd's do not work well in certain cd roms, etc. That is a known issue. This issue is beyond the scope of this thread. However, i went to the Slackware Setup disc #1, and i copied the gtk2+1.2.10.i386-3.tgz file to my server. Since this is a "slackware package" (beacause it ends in .tgz), all i have to do is type installpkg 2+1.2.10.i386-3.tgz to insatll it. I have two questions. Where should i install this package to? I copied the .tgz file to /usr/local (for no apparent reason) I installed it there, tried to restart firefox, got the same error. I then rebooted the machine, and tried firefox again, and got the same error. i tried using pkgtool to see what files were in the package and where they were installed to, but they were installed in lots of different places. So where shold I install this package? Am i going about this the right way? Or am i way off base here? |
You don't have to wqorry about where to install it -pkgtool and the package content take care of that. You can install it from anywhere, CD or any place you put it on the hard drive.
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That shared library you are missing is part of gtk+2-2.8.20-i486-1.tgz, not gtk2+1.2.10.i386-3.tgz. Install that one.
Another thing - installpkg does not care where the .tgz file is. You can remove it after installation. |
thanks so much!
Hi guys - thanks so much for the reply. Your solution worked!
I copied the other gtk package from the slackware install disc (i had to do this on a computer where the cdrom actually read all the content on the disc) dumped it on an ftp server pulled it back down to the server using kongurer/ftp success! Thanks again. This is why i love linuxquestions.org, and Linux period. :newbie: |
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