Comments on: Manual Firefox 1.5b1 install on Fedora Core 4

By: Anton

Anton — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 19:55:26 +0000

You’re probably missing the compatibility libs.

There should be some FC4 rpms (get through yum maybe?) called compat-libstdc++-*.
If you get them FF should work.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 19:38:08 +0000

Here’s what I get:

[root@localhost ~]# htmlview %u
/usr/lib/firefox-1.5/firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

What does this mean?

Thanks. – Joseph

By: Joseph

Joseph — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 19:08:58 +0000

I tried this and it didn’t work for me. I click on my Fedora Core 4 launcher and I get the hourglass… Same goes for all other fire fox icons. Something’s wrong.

I copied every single line after the # sign and entered it while logged on as root and I’m screwed again. So much for trying to update to Firefox 1.5

By: Tony Olsen

Tony Olsen — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 15:54:39 +0000

Here’s howt on the 1.5 release:

su or login as root first.

# wget http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.5/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-1.5.tar.gz

# cd /usr/lib
# tar xzvf ~/firefox-1.5.tar.gz
# mv firefox firefox-1.5
# which firefox
/usr/bin/firefox
# cd /usr/bin/
# mv firefox old.firefox
# ln -s /usr/lib/firefox-1.5/firefox .

That should do it, and shouldn’t affect any of your launchers or file associations.