[CentOS] Firefox 5 on Centos 5.6

James A. Peltier jpeltier at sfu.ca
Tue Jun 21 23:24:38 UTC 2011


----- Original Message -----
| fred smith wrote:
| > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 12:46:09AM +0200, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
| >> fred smith wrote:
| >>> I've been running Firefox 4 on Centos 5 (had to find a
| >>> libstdc++.so.6 for
| >>> it by perusing newer systems from which I could steal one, but
| >>> it's been
| >>> fine since then).
| >>>
| >>> Well, today firefox pushed down an update to Firefox 4.0.1 without
| >>> saying
| >>> what it was, and it turns out to have been firefox 5. fine, I
| >>> wanted it
| >>> anyway.
| >>>
| >>> But when I restarted it, I got a completely black browser window.
| >>> Clicked
| >>> on the X close button and got a completely black confirmation
| >>> dialog.
| >>> weird.
| >>>
| >>> exited it and tried safe mode. Works fine.
| >>>
| >>> ldd reports no conflicts or missing libraries.
| >>>
| >>> anybody else seen this? anyone got suggestions on what I should
| >>> try next?
| >>>
| >>> Thanks!
| >>>
| >> My guess is that you compiled from source, and that is not
| >> something
| >> (vast majority of) CentOS users do, so I would not hold my breath
| >> that
| >> anyone uses Firefox 4 on CentOS 5.x.
| >>
| >> Just return to 4.0 and you should be fine, I guess.
| >
| > Actually, no. it's the binaries from mozilla.org, though. firefox 4
| > did the update itself, again using the mozilla.org binaries.
| 
| libstdc++.so.6 is a part of gcc libraries. I would like to have
| Firefox
| 4/5, but not at the cost of messing with the core part of my system.
| 
| Ljubomir
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There is the libsdc++-4.1.2-50.el5 package and the gcc44 packages, both can be installed without messing with the core system


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