FireFox1.0 Problem Mandrake 10.1
wats up all? well i just installed both the bin and the rpm and neither of them work. im in the terminal and type firefox and its comes out with this....
SCIM: im_module_init free(): invalid pointer 0x8210040! what does that mean?... any help will be appreciated. oh and one more question what will uninstall fire fox... rpm -?... thnx |
To remove Firefox use
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rpm -e firefox |
well i can't find the progie without the installer....
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Link.
Or get an installer but be careful and choose a right path for installation. The best, imho, is /usr/local/firefox/. |
when i was using the installer i clicked next and it would just error out.....
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I think you need to check if no parts of previous installs remains in your system... If anything is clean, get an archive and install. What was an error you've got?
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Configure urpmi on your system, using the instructions from the easyurpmi site. You can then use the graphical software module in the Mandrake Control Center and search for firefox or you can just type,
urpmi firefox (or mozilla-firefox) in a console as root. To start firefox, run mozilla-firefox in a console or from the Mandrake menu. It works fine on my Mandrake system. |
Yeah, urpmi mozilla-firefox as root, that's what I did, it runs just fine.
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[root@localhost firefox]# ls |
Is it so difficult to configure urpmi and get the official Mandrake version of Firefox. You will save yourself a lot of time and all those problems that you are experiencing if you follow the instructions in my previous post. It's sometimes frustrating when you have given someone the remedy to their problem and they don't even try to do what you have said.
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I double it. You're absolutely right. |
ok i have it installed. i installed it as root. but now the only problem i have now is i cant run it as a normal user.
$ su [root@localhost.bobby:/] mozilla-firefox ^ that will run........ but when i try as myself it wont run i chmoded it already to u+rx .... what else must i do :D .... thanx... in advace.... thanx the both of you for you help as well.... |
Where exactly you installed Firefox? It's /some/path/firefox/ isn't it? Inside this .../firefox/ directory there must be a file called firefox, it starts your app. Just create a shortcut to this file on desktop and you're done, i believe. Post a result here... :)
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i installed it at /usr/local/
thats where it said to install or should i move it to /usr/bin ?..... |
No, /usr/local is allright. Did yo tried to run /usr/local/firefox as user?
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^ sry i installed at usr/bin what should i do.....?
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/usr/bin/firefox/, i hope... Just move it to /usr/local/ .
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Since you insist on not using the official Firefox rpm from Mandrake as I suggested earlier, I'll help you out in another way. The $ sign used below just represents a normal user prompt so don't type it in or paste it.
1) Go to this mozilla ftp site. 2) Select the language that you want firefox to use (I chose en_GB coz I use British English). You'll then be in a folder with several firefox builds, download the one that does not have an installer (firefox-1.0.tar.gz). 3)Once you have downloaded firefox, change into the directory that you downloaded it. 4) untar firefox ($tar -zxvf firefox-1.0.tar.gz) 5) do $su -c "mv firefox /usr/lib/." (include the double quotes and when prompted for the root password enter it) 6) do $su -c "ln -s /usr/lib/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/." Run "firefox" from a console window, it should work fine. |
NICE thanx!!! worked like a dream!! thank you
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i tried installing the rpm from mandrake for firefox 1.0 but the same problem any more suggestions?? regards |
Hi, I suggest you search on google coz I'm sure I've seen some other forums with a possible solution, but I can remember exactly where. SEarch for "SCIM: im_module_init"
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hey thannx!! i got one
for those who could not solve their ---- > scim -f x11 -c simple -ns socket -d > export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 > export XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM > export GTK_IM_MODULE=xim then, launch firefox-installer ----- from http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/modules...0062&forum=1&9 regards |
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What can be really aggravating is when someone asks a question and gets an answer to something entirely different and hence useless. There's a real forum situation nowadays whereby people try to impart knowledge on what the time is and wind up explaining how to make a watch. In any situation, to troubleshoot you look at what the actual trouble is, otherwise yer just shootin' :-) The error message says: Quote:
1) run drakrpm-remove 2) search in the textbox on the top left for "SCIM" (without the quotes) 3) select all the results and click remove Run your bin, it'll work like magic. This will also stop you having to do an RPM hunt when it comes time to install realplayer and some other software that make use of the bin format. Not everyone likes RPMs, you can have codependencies (x won't install without the dependency y, which depends on x) and they can generally be annoying. To be fair tho, they do make things easier to uninstall so consider what you will do before doing it. Regards E. |
hey thanks for the info
i did not know about SCIM and i looked for the possible solution around and found that one only. now i have a better solution from ur side regards |
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I installed it to /usr/local and made a file firefox and it ran fine.
All I needed to do was create a link to ./firefox and it went ok, but since I have no internet connection yet can't test it. |
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我明白! It's not very neat but you can remove scim with rpm -e scim , install firefox with either urpmi firefox or your script, then reinstall scim with urpmi scim . This also means you will install the most recent version of scim which may be more stable. |
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