Re: Firefox 1.5 [installation problems -- x86-64 issues?]

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Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 14:18 -0500, Tayfun Can wrote:
> 
>>www.nrpms.net has one for FC4
>>
>>On 12/11/05, John Francis <john.francis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>        So are we going to see Firefox 1.5 released for FC4?
> 
> 
> I have downloaded the version of firefox available from www.nrpms.net,
> and am attempting to install it.  An initial installation attempt
> produces errors:
>         # rpm --upgrade --test firefox-1.5-1.1.fc4.nr.i386.rpm
>         error: Failed dependencies:
>                 libcairo.so.2 is needed by firefox-1.5-1.1.fc4.nr.i386
>                 libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 is needed by
>         firefox-1.5-1.1.fc4.nr.i386
> 
> I assume libcairo and libpangocairo are parts of the cairo rpm, but an
> attempt to download cairo from the Fedora development repo using yumex
> produces further errors:
>         Parsing package install arguments
>         ['Unable to satisfy dependencies', 'Package glibc-devel needs
>         glibc
>                 = 2.3.5-10.3, this is not available.', 'Package
>                 glibc-devel needs glibc-headers = 2.3.5-10.3, this is
>                 not available.']
>         Excluding Packages in global exclude list
>         Finished
> 
> These errors are truly perplexing since glibc-devel is already
> installed, and the desired versions of glibc and glibc-devel appear to
> be installed.  (Since I am running on an x86-64 system, many rpms appear
> twice.)
>         # rpm -q glibc glibc-headers glibc-devel
>         glibc-2.3.5-10.3
>         glibc-2.3.5-10.3
>         glibc-headers-2.3.5-10.3
>         glibc-devel-2.3.5-10.3
>         glibc-devel-2.3.5-10.3
> 
> Any ideas what's going on?

Not really, but the firefox and cairo rpms available at:

http://remi.collet.free.fr/index.php?2005/12/02/74-firefox-15-1

work just fine on my machine without any dependency issues.

--
Joel


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