Hi,

I'm having problems getting Galeon to work with Fedora 1 (I know there some very good alternatives, but I do like Galeon).

I've tried several RH9 rpm's, from 1.2.10 to 1.3.10-1, and a Fedora rpm for 1.3.10-2. They all appear to install OK, but when clicking either the menu entry or the icon, the hard disk light flickers for a few seconds, then nothing. Running it from the shell I get: -

[kev@localhost kev]$ galeon
Cannot find mozilla installation directory. Please set MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME to your mozilla directory
[kev@localhost kev]$

I started off with an upgrade from RH9, then made a fresh install of FC1 - same result with both installations.

Any help will be much appreciated - I quite like Firebird, and can use Epiphany, but Galeon's the only thing from RH9 I'm missing.

Run export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/lib/mozilla
(you may or may not need to add -<version number of mozilla>)
then add that line to ~/.bash_profile
Galeon needs the mozilla libs to run.
If it still doesn't want to run, update your mozilla.

Here's what I did.

export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/lib/mozilla-1.5
rpm -Uvh galeon-1.3.10-1.rhfc1.dag.i386.rpm --nodeps

I start galeon & I get the following errors.

(galeon-bin:4198): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtktypeutils.c: line 42 (gtk_type_unique): assertion `GTK_TYPE_IS_OBJECT (parent_type)' failed

(galeon-bin:4198): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtktypeutils.c: line 99 (gtk_type_new): assertion `GTK_TYPE_IS_OBJECT (type)' failed

** (galeon-bin:4198): WARNING **: Failed to get singleton embed object!


(galeon-bin:4198): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(galeon-bin:4198): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gsignal.c: line 1861 (g_signal_connect_data): assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

** (galeon-bin:4198): WARNING **: I could not load the bookmarks file, will load the default bookmarks from /usr/share/galeon/default-bookmarks.xbel.

(galeon-bin:4198): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: specified instance size for type `GtkMozEmbed' is smaller than the parent type's `GtkBin' instance size

(galeon-bin:4198): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gtype.c: line 1872 (g_type_register_static): assertion `parent_type > 0' failed

(galeon-bin:4198): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gtype.c: line 1937 (g_type_add_interface_static): assertion `G_TYPE_IS_INSTANTIATABLE (instance_type)'
failed

(galeon-bin:4198): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gobject.c: line 615 (g_object_new): assertion `G_TYPE_IS_OBJECT (object_type)' failed

(galeon-bin:4198): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gobject.c: line 1413 (g_object_set_data): assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(galeon-bin:4198): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(galeon-bin:4198): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gsignal.c: line 1861 (g_signal_connect_data): assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

(galeon-bin:4198): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(galeon-bin:4198): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gsignal.c: line 1861 (g_signal_connect_data): assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

(galeon-bin:4198): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(galeon-bin:4198): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gsignal.c: line 1861 (g_signal_connect_data): assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

(galeon-bin:4198): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(galeon-bin:4198): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gsignal.c: line 1861 (g_signal_connect_data): assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

(galeon-bin:4198): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(galeon-bin:4198): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gsignal.c: line 1861 (g_signal_connect_data): assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

(galeon-bin:4198): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(galeon-bin:4198): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gsignal.c: line 1861 (g_signal_connect_data): assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

(galeon-bin:4198): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(galeon-bin:4198): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gsignal.c: line 1861 (g_signal_connect_data): assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

(galeon-bin:4198): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(galeon-bin:4198): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gsignal.c: line 1861 (g_signal_connect_data): assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

(galeon-bin:4198): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(galeon-bin:4198): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gsignal.c: line 1861 (g_signal_connect_data): assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

(galeon-bin:4198): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(galeon-bin:4198): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gsignal.c: line 1861 (g_signal_connect_data): assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

Hi Yamaduc,

that's almost exactly what I tried, with much the same result. However, going back to Dag Wieer's site, I found the apt page - http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/

Install or update apt-get as necessary, using the instructions on the page, then use rpm-e galeon to remove your current Galeon installation. It's then a simple matter of apt-get update, followed by apt-get install galeon, and you should have Galeon 1.3 and Mozilla 1.5 installed and working.

Hope this helps - KevP.

Edit - sorry, forgot to mention - remove the lines you added to .bash_profile before running apt-get.