problems with latest firefox

[ulfr]

    hi all

    i have been trying to load an up to date version of firefox into various versions of coreplus
    using firefox-get-latest
    but when i try to run it
    it reports that it cannot find a long list of dependencies
    beginning with libatomic.so

    any ideas

    ulfr

[Rich]

Hi ulfr

... beginning with libatomic.so ...

That should be in  gcc_libs.tcz.

I just ran  firefox_getLatest  a few weeks ago under TC10 x86 and it ran fine.

This is the  .dep  file it produced:

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gtk3.tcz
libasound.tcz
dbus-glib.tcz
hicolor-icon-theme.tcz
cairo.tcz
gamin.tcz
libGLESv2.tcz
gdk-pixbuf2.tcz
gcc_libs.tcz

[ulfr]

      thanks for your reply

      i am trying it in coreplus 11

      it does have gcc_libs.tcz in optional

      could it be a problem between 10 and 11 

      i will try it next in tc 10

      ulfr   

[Rich]

Hi ulfr
Is  gcc_libs.tcz  listed in your  firefox.tcz.dep  file?

[ulfr]

     hi rich thank you for all your help and work on tc it is the best designed distro there is

     firefox-get-latest works in tc 10
     but did not work in coreplus 11

     posting from it now 

[ulfr]

      in coreplus 11  optional    gcc_libs.tcz is listed in the firefox.tcz.dep file

[Rich]

Hi ulfr
Then  gcc_libs  should be loaded and you should not get a  libatomic.so  not found error. If you run this:

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tce_load -i gcc_libsDoes it load it or does it say it's already loaded?

[ulfr]

  hi rich

  i am now in firefox  in tc 10
  which works fine

  i will have to go back to coreplus 11 to check  if  gcc_libs.tcz was loaded there 

  be right back 

 

[ulfr]

        hi rich 

       im back in coreplus 11 
       and specifically loaded gcc_libs.tcz before i loaded firefox
       this got rid of the libatomic.so problem
       but other dependencies are needed

       the next is

       XPCOMGlueLoad error

       libmozgtk.so:   libgtk-3.so.0  : undefined symbol : pango_font_description_set_variations Couldn't load XPCOM

       i did try to satisfy this list before but it is so long i gave up 


       ulfr 

[Rich]

Hi ulfr
Try this:

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for i in `cat /etc/sysconfig/tcedir/optional/firefox.tcz.dep`; do tce-load -i $i; done
You may want to copy/paste that command.

Then see if the errors go away.

[aus9]

In addition to what Rich just wrote I just did a search. One of the solutions, the poster had accidently installed the wrong bit version of firefox. I believe that is not supposed to happen.

However, one way of telling is to navigate in your terminal to whereever firefox-bin is.

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strings firefox-bin | grep lib64
# EXPECTED result for 64 bit /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2You should have the 32 bit if you are on coreplus so I would expect you to see no result?

so I am guessing you could confirm with

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strings firefox-bin | grep ld-linux-x86

[ulfr]

      rich
      i ran your command and it said all of the deps were already loaded
      but then i ran firefox and got the same error

      as i said firefox-get-latest works fine in tc 10.1

      aus9 

     i will try to see if it loaded a 64 bit firefox

     but the script for firefox-get-latest runs automatically without me specifiying 32 or 64 bit

     however i was able to run fredx portable firefox (from puppy) which is 32 bit  after i loaded but did not start firefox in tc 10 .1

     ulfr

     

[ulfr]

      aus9
 
     i ran both of your commands and got no result 


    ulfr

[aus9]

I am sure you already know this....you can not boot and have loaded 2 firefoxs at once.

Please remove all mentions of firefox from your boot list.
manually load what ever firefox you think should work and try again Rich and my suggestions

[ulfr]

  thank you for all the help

  yes i know i cannot boot 2 firefoxes at the same time it will tell me one is running already and must be shut down before i can run the other one 
  and i dont think that was the conflict becuase i tried firefox-get-latest first before i did anyting else   

  i will redo everythig to make sure that is not the problem

  and report back 

  see you soon