Greetings all.
I'm using Slackware, what version I can't remember, though it doesn't really matter considering how much I've updated all of the packages over the years. Anyways, I recently upgraded Firefox from what I believe was 3.0.0.1 that came installed by default to 3.5.3. I very much like the new version of Firefox, it's faster, has a lot of nice plugins, and supports more new HTML standards. The one problem I have with it though, is the fact that it, just like version 3.0.0.1 will hang on youtube videos, apparently randomly.
Now I'm not entirely sure that this is related to what I see on the console after crash reports, but here's what I'm dealing with. Typically when Firefox hangs on flash videos or whatnot, I've got to open the console and run something to the effect of
Code:
bash-3.1$ ps -A
...
9037 ? 00:02:38 firefox-bin
...
bash-3.1$ kill -9 9037
Sometimes however, Firefox will actually crash. If I had run firefox from the console, I'll see something written to the console indicating that libGConf is either not installed or not in the path, or something to that effect. This, it would seem is causing an issue.
Now . . . here's the kicker, I tried to install GConf, but when I run ./configure, I get this
Code:
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking for gmodule-2.0 >= 2.0.1 gobject-2.0 >= 2.0.1 ORBit-2.0 >=
2.4.0... Package ORBit-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `ORBit-2.0.pc' to the
PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'ORBit-2.0' found
configure: error: Library requirements (gmodule-2.0 >= 2.0.1
gobject-2.0 >= 2.0.1 ORBit-2.0 >= 2.4.0) not met; consider adjusting
the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a
nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.
I've looked up ORBit on Google and linuxpackages.net, but I cannot find it. I can find the "Orbit downloader", which is a program for windows, but I've no information on ORBit, the package for Linux.
My question then, is what am I supposed to do? Is ORBit a package you can download? or is it part of some other package I need to get?
Thanks in advance,
-Primux
