Firefox wont load after slackpkg upgrade
 

I'm running Slack 14.2 and upgraded firefox to ver 60 (something)

I typed: slackpkg upgrade package firefox

There were no errors but when I tried to run Firefox I just got the bouncing ball for maybe a minute but no Firefox.

I rebooted and ran it as root with the same results.

I'm at a bit of a loss

Hello
can you open a terminal and put in "firefox" and tell us the output of that message?

bash-4.3$ firefox
XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/lib64/firefox/libxul.so:
/usr/lib64/../lib64/libz.so.1: version `ZLIB_1.2.9' not found (required by /usr/lib64/firefox/libxul.so)
Couldn't load XPCOM.
bash-4.3$

mmm you didnt upgrade to a slackware -current firefox did you?

Im guessing I should install ZLIB_1.2.9

you should upgrade all the packages in /patches/packages, not just some.

if you want to do it using slackpkg the syntax is
like linus72 said, check the mirror you selected: you can use this command

My slackpkg search zlib

[uninstalled] - zlib-1.2.11-x86_64-1_slack14.2
I just installed it seems its helpful/depends for many programs

Edit I use Chromium

I just typed

slackpkg upgrade package firefox

and satback and watched.
Unfortunately it all looked OK so I did not pay too much attention to the term.

I did that before upgrading FF

do slackpkg search zlib
what does it say??

Here it is:

bash-4.3# slackpkg search zlib

Looking for zlib in package list. Please wait... DONE

The list below shows all packages with name matching "zlib".

[ upgrade ] - zlib-1.2.8-x86_64-1 --> zlib-1.2.11-x86_64-1_slack14.2

You can search specific files using "slackpkg file-search file".


bash-4.3#

ok upgrade it
slackpkg upgrade zlib

WOO HOO Got it!!!

I carrioed out the upgrade, no errors and FF loaded

Wow it's quite different from the old version I was running.

Thank you all so much for your time and help.

No worries bro, roll on!
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