When I install Sametime and try to run.. I get an error that reads:

Access to valid Mozilla browser required. Please set MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME enviroment variable to point to GTK2+xft Mozilla Browser and restart Sametime

I did:

# MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/lib/firefox
# echo $MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME
/usr/lib/firefox
# export $MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME
bash: export: `/usr/lib/firefox': not a valid identifier


So I tried installing Mozilla (Maybe it just didn't want Firefox) and got the same.. but with /opt/mozilla (which is where I installed Mozilla).

What am I doing wrong here?

And this is on SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10

MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME is the name of the environment variable. $MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME will be replaced with the contents of MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME. Don't use a $ when using export:
The environment variable will only effect programs running from within the shell with the variable set. Setting that variable in one shell, and running Sametime (whatever that is) from a different shell or from some menu is equivalent to having not set the variable at all.

Sorry.. I realized that myself and exported using export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME with the same output..

Sametime uses Eclipse is there something I have to set within eclipse?

I'm assuming you mean the "Access to valid Mozilla browser required" error.

Maybe. Check the documentation.


Is Sametime run by Eclipse itself? You could try running eclipse (from a shell) in an environment with MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME set.

By the way, I just noticed that the commands that you've posted are all on prompts ending with a # as opposed to a $. While a $ signifies a normal user, the # usually signifies running the command as root... you're not running eclipse as root are you?

No, most the work was done from $ and just tried with # once to see if it was the same with both users.

running: MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/lib/firefox ./eclipse still gives me the same output as before although it blinks once before giving the error (strange).

CLFRB2002I: Located default properties /opt/IBM/sametime/sametime.properties
[08/29/2006 15:58:16] [com.ibm.collaboration.realtime.application.RTCApplication.checkBrowserWidget] ::SEVERE:: Access to valid Mozilla browser required. Please set MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME environment variable to point to GTK2+xft Mozilla browser and restart Sametime

You say you've installed Mozilla. Did you try the same thing, but with the path of plain old Mozilla instead of Firefox?

Yup.. installed mozilla to /opt/mozilla

chnaged the variable to point there.. and whammo.. still nothing.. Dunno what the flipside it could be.

So as dumb as this sounds.. I did:

$ MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.8.0.1
$ export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME
sametime

And it worked..

Why did I point MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME to that directory?

Within the sametime folder there was a script named locate-mozgtk2xfg.sh within there, I saw it was looking for libgtkembedmoz[.]so

So I just did a locate libgtkembedmoz and found where it was and tada.. I should however probably keep my MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME set to /usr/lib/firefox and create a ln in there to the libgtkembedmoz.so listed above.

On my system, that library is in /usr/lib/mozilla-1.7.13/libgtkembedmoz.so ... so it seems that asking for the location of mozilla itself will only work on certain installations... they should be more specific.

If you have contact information, I'd suggest informing them of this problem and the simple fix.

Nice work.

Strange...

The icon (which points to /usr/bin/sametime) still reports the error in post #1, If I go /usr/bin/./sametime (it runs fine) if I go /usr/bin/sametime (it runs fine), if I go /opt/IBM/sametime/./sametime (it runs fine) if I click on the shortcut icon.. no go (properties says /usr/bin/sametime)

Also, the MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME resets itself once I log off of the Terminal so it would have to be reset every single time I reboot or what not (how can I set that on logon) Also, i ln -s'ed the file from /usr/lib/firefox to the libgtkembedmoz.so file in xul... and it would not accept the symbolic link (when searching for the GTK..)

I guess this is really going to have to be a question for IBM Developers and not really myself eh..

Thanks for your help.. any insight on the last 2 findings?

Ahhhhhhh

rpm -qa | grep xul
mozilla-xulrunner-1.8.0.1-32


There we are.. It's in the Mozilla xulrunner directory and not the Mozilla Directory (Is this the same as other distro's? How about Ubuntu?)

These probably describe the same problem. Clicking the icon will run sametime in an environment without that variable set. All environment variables are only available to a single shell (environment) and child processes of that shell.

If you want environment variables to be persistant from one boot to the next, edit your /etc/profile or ~/.profile and add
The /etc/profile file is executed by all shells when any user logs in (this is the "system-wide" profile). The ~/.profile file is executed by all shells when that specific user logs in.

I don't know about Ubuntu. I can tell you it's different in Slackware, though.

I'm using this simple bash script to start Eclipse 3.2.2 64bit om my Amd machine.

$>cat /usr/bin/eclipse
#!/bin/sh
export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.8.1
export ECLIPSE_HOME="/opt/eclipse"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib64:.
$ECLIPSE_HOME/eclipse $*

$>java -version
java version "1.5.0_10"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_10-b03)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 1.5.0_10-b03, mixed mode)

The integrated browser in Eclipse now works perfectly. ;-)

Regards,

Mark