how to install firebird
 

Everybody LOVES Firebird. So I go to mozilla.org and
download the 0.7 gzipped tarball into my /misc/downloads.
I unzip, untar, and it barfs a big tree full of files right there
under /misc/downloads. No README. No install.sh. No Makefile.
I try to execute run-mozilla.sh, and get:
run-mozilla.sh: Cannot execute .

When I try to execute MozillaFirebird-bin, I get:
./MozillaFirebird-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libmozjs.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

even though there damn well is a libmozjs.so file, right there in the directory.

And when I run the executable directly (as opposed to these shell scripts),
it runs, but the fonts look crappy. Good old mozilla 1.5 has perfectly nice fonts.
A cursory search in google/linux shows that other people don't like the fonts
either, but offer conflicting and frighteningly arcane solutions.

So - how do I install Firebird for real? Do I just mv the whole tree somewhere?
Soft link from /usr/bin to the executable? Why don't the scripts work? And how,
simply, do I fix the fonts?

Thanks.

You want MozillaFirebird-xft instead of the standard build. That will give you the eye-friendly anti-aliased fonts that everyone knows and loves.

You don't have to compile or install... just copy the tree wherever you want and use the binary.

try this :

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.o...tk2+xft.tar.gz

Thanks! You're beautiful! Yep, nice fonts.
And now MozillaFirebird (the shell script) works. Yay.
:D

OK, actually I have one more question.

I run Mozilla 1.5, and I just did a 'ln -s' to make all the
plugins from Mozilla 1.5 show up in the plugins directory for
firebird. But now, when I fire up firebird from the command line,
I get:

LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib/RealPlayer8/rpnp.so [/usr/lib/RealPlayer8/rpnp.so: undefined symbol: __pure_virtual]

Interestingly, RealPlayer files, like the song snippets on amazon,
play just fine (possibly because I also have CrossOver installed).
But I'm curious about this error message, which never shows up under
Mozilla 1.5.

Thanks.

Just run the MozillaFirebird script not the runMozilla script. IT will work
It worked in mine

You dont need to install it