On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 08:24 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote: > 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> > On another distro I created a symbolic with the name of the older library pointing to the newer library and it worked. Dan
