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Unable to Launch Firefox 3.5.19 On Linux Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS

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virtual_law
virtual_law

Can’t launch Firefox 3.5.19 on Linux Ubuntu When trying to run with:

./firefox

Terminal gives the following:

./firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libdbus-glib-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Can’t launch Firefox 3.5.19 on Linux Ubuntu When trying to run with: ./firefox Terminal gives the following: ./firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libdbus-glib-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Vahaolana nofidina

Got it working with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 32-bit/x86

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SuMo Bot
SuMo Bot

......

Novain'i jonzn4SUSE t@

virtual_law
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jonzn4SUSE said

virtual_law said
Can’t launch Firefox 3.5.19 on Linux Ubuntu ./firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libdbus-glib-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Why not just type firefox? Are you running your distro version or another downloaded version? The error is telling you that it cannot find libdbus-glib-1.so.2. Is the file there. I see it on in my OS. see screenshot


libdbus-glib-1-2 - GLib-based library for using D-Bus

/usr/lib64/libdbus-glib-1.so.2 /usr/lib64/libdbus-glib-1.so.2.3.5 /usr/share/doc/packages/libdbus-glib-1-2 /usr/share/doc/packages/libdbus-glib-1-2/NEWS /usr/share/licenses/libdbus-glib-1-2 /usr/share/licenses/libdbus-glib-1-2/COPYING

Thank you, maybe switching distributions will work. What version of OpenSUSE are you running?

SuMo Bot
SuMo Bot

UPDATED: I get a similar error, but 3.5.19 is not 64bit. [5:15pm]> ./firefox-bin ./firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libxul.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

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SuMo Bot
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Just curious why that old version?

jeff-g
jeff-g

jonzn4SUSE said
Just curious why that old version?

was wondering meself, thinking it was some kind of ubuntu release...

James
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jeff-g said

jonzn4SUSE said
Just curious why that old version?

was wondering meself, thinking it was some kind of ubuntu release...

It may have been, way back back in April 2011. https://website-archive.mozilla.org/www.mozilla.org/firefox_releasenotes/en-us/firefox/3.5.19/releasenotes/

It was not until Firefox 4.0 that there were 64-bit Firefox for Linux from Mozilla as it was 32-bit only before I believe.

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jonzn4SUSE said
Just curious why that old version?

Trying to get J2SE 1.3 and J2SE 5.0 working in the browser.

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Vahaolana Nofidina

Got it working with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 32-bit/x86