linux update killed older firefox
I downloaded the update for the newest Firefox for installation on Fedora 11 64 bit Linux. I untarred it to the home directory and found the old version of Firefox launched when typing firefox in the terminal. A search for the old firefox was conducted which was found in /usr/bin, so I untarred the new firefox from /usr/bin as su. After this, firefox will not launch at all. Any suggestions on where to start? Thanks much.
PS: I believe Firefox 3.5.8 was running originally. See more system details for the command line troubleshooting information.
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Instead of typing just firefox in terminal how about going to that new Firefox folder in /home/ and then start the firefox script from there or create a desktop or panel launcher pointing to that new firefox.sh version.
You need to use ./firefox to start the Firefox script in the current directory.
Otherwise a search via the PATH environment variable is done and that will start a possible Firefox version from the distribution.
Also make sure that you have all required 32 bit libraries installed if you use a 32 bit Firefox version.
Using ./firefox results in the same error messages. I have however gotten firefox working. From the terminal, ./firefox was entered in the firefox directory and the error message described was given. So, from root I did yum install ld-linux.so.2. Then ./firefox again. New error, it couldn't find libstdc++.so.6. So again, yum install libstdc++.so.6. There was a whole series of these. Finally firefox launched and seems to work, but the terminal window gave the following errors during launch:
(firefox-bin:3382): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "nodoka",
(firefox-bin:3382): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "nodoka", Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "pk-gtk-module": libpk-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module": libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "gnomebreakpad": libgnomebreakpad.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
(firefox-bin:3382): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "nodoka",
(firefox-bin:3382): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "nodoka", Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "pk-gtk-module": libpk-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module": libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "gnomebreakpad": libgnomebreakpad.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library libXt.so [libXt.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory] LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library libXext.so [libXext.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory] LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
I'll hack away at these, but for anyone else w/ this problem, here's one approach. There's probably an easier way, but it worked!