On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 23:54 -0800, peter wu wrote: > Hi, all, > > I have Fedora 4, and wanted to upgrade Firefox from version 1.0.4 that > came with installation CD to version 1.0.7. However, installing the > new version gives me the following error msg: > > ----------- > [root@localhost firefox-installer]# ./firefox-installer > ./firefox-installer-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc > ++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory The firefox binary you downloaded was built against older C++ libraries than the ones used in FC4. > I found out that in /usr/lib, there is libstdc++.so.6 instead of > libstdc++.so.5. I did some googling, and somehow managed to put > libstdc++.so.5 as well. Now I get the following msg: > > ------------- > [root@localhost firefox-installer]# ./firefox-installer > > (firefox-installer-bin:32430): Pango-WARNING **: Invalid UTF-8 string > passed to pango_layout_set_text() > > (firefox-installer-bin:32430): Pango-WARNING **: Invalid UTF-8 string > passed to pango_layout_set_text() > > (firefox-installer-bin:32430): Pango-WARNING **: Invalid UTF-8 string > passed to pango_layout_set_text() > > (firefox-installer-bin:32430): Pango-WARNING **: Invalid UTF-8 string > passed to pango_layout_set_text() > [root@localhost > firefox-installer]# /usr/firefox-installer/firefox-bin: error while > loading shared libraries: libXp.so.6: cannot open shared object file: > No such file or directory > ----------- > > Also, I realize that Firefox 1.0.7 is for i686, whereas I have Fedorr > 4 i386. Could this be the problem??? Save yourself a lot of trouble and do (as root) "yum update firefox". Your existing firefox will then be upgraded to the official FC4 version of 1.0.7. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
