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4.6 -> 4.8 upgrade: no more firefox

I had Zenwalk 4.6 on a spare computer with a Via Samuel 2 processor and 256 Mb RAM. Worked fine.
Yesterday I upgraded it:

Code:

netpkg upgrade

In fact I had to issue this twice, but then it worked with one nasty exception: firefox does't do anything.
starting firefox in a terminal gave:

Code:

$ firefox

/usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libplc4.so:

cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

$ locate libplc4.so

/usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.3/libplc4.so

/usr/lib/thunderbird-2.0.0.0/libplc4.so

$

this means IMHO that libplc4.so is there for firefox, but I don't know how to solve this problem.

BTW. the text-browser lynx works fine in a terminal window.

yet another small update-flaw:

Code:

$ cat /etc/zenwalk-version

Zenwalk 4.6

$

I expected: 4.8 ...

Quote:

Originally Posted by Douwe (Post 2989187)

/usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.3/libplc4.so
/usr/lib/thunderbird-2.0.0.0/libplc4.so

You can try adding those paths to "/etc/ld.so.conf" and running ldconfig to update the shared library cache.

Actually your /etc/ld.so.conf file should only have this inside:

Code:

include /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf

I think you problem with firefox is that firefox has been replaced by iceweasel in zenwalk 4.8. So...

Code:

removepkg firefox

netpkg iceweasel-2

The "-2" is a trick for netpkg to not prompt you for all the langpacks.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Douwe (Post 2989187)

yet another small update-flaw:

Code:

$ cat /etc/zenwalk-version

Zenwalk 4.6

$

I expected: 4.8 ...

No, this is correct. This file doesn't get updated. It always points to the version that zenwalk was first installed with.

The reply of gapan did the trick for me.
iceweasel 2.0.0.11 works fine now.
thanks gapan & David3157 for your reactions.
case closed.

Douwe.