Manual Firefox 1.5b1 install on Fedora Core 4
Posted by AntonOct 1
This should work on other similar systems.
su or login as root first.
# wget http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.5b1/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-1.5b1.tar.gz # cd /usr/lib # tar xzvf ~/firefox-1.5b1.tar.gz # mv firefox firefox-1.5b1 # which firefox /usr/bin/firefox # cd /usr/bin/ # mv firefox old.firefox # ln -s /usr/lib/firefox-1.5b1/firefox .
That should do it, and shouldn’t affect any of your launchers or file associations.
[update] It appears that you may need the compat libs for this to work. If you use a package manager, search for ‘compat’ and you should find something like compat-libstdc++ or libstdc++-compat. If you install them FF should be happy.
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Comment by Tony Olsen on December 1, 2005 at 11:54 am
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.
Comment by Joseph on February 6, 2006 at 3:08 pm
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
Comment by Joseph on February 6, 2006 at 3:38 pm
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
Comment by Anton on February 6, 2006 at 3:55 pm
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.