[CentOS] firefox 18

Thu Jan 10 13:39:38 UTC 2013
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>

On 01/10/2013 07:37 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On 01/10/2013 07:16 AM, fred smith wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 02:29:02AM -0800, John Doe wrote:
>>> From: fred smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>
>>>
>>>> Has anyone managed to get FF 18.0 to work on Centos 5.8?
>>>> I've been hacking at it, placing a stack of .so files (from Centos 6)
>>>> into a private directory, then using LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point the system to 
>>>> (in a shellscript that subsequently invokes ff 18) but so far I've not
>>>> managed to find the right combination. I've moved over libstdc++, all
>>>> or nearly all the .so files from glib2 and glibc packages. now I"m
>>>> getting:
>>>>
>>>> ./firefox: symbol lookup error: ./libstdc++.so.6: undefined symbol: 
>>>> _ZNSt7num_getIcSt19istreambuf_iteratorIcSt11char_traitsIcEEE2idE, version 
>>>> GLIBCXX_3.4
>>> I tried to update to 18, and it did not complain about libstd++...
>>> I think I only copied:
>>>   libstdc++.so.6 -> libstdc++.so.6.0.10*
>>>   libstdc++.so.6.0.10*
>>> No other lib or script...
>>> But 18 complained about: "Couldn't load XRE functions."
>> Yeah, that's what I got, too. Someone on the mozilla site said that
>> it requires a later glibc, which is what got me going on moving over
>> glibc and glib package shared objects from a centos-6 box.
>>
>>> Went back to 17.0.1 in the mean time...
>> me too.
>>
>>
> You guys do know that we are fairly up2date with firefox/thunderbird on
> their ESR program right?
>
> The Firefox/Thunderbird we have is totally updated for security and gets
> upstream support from Mozilla.  It does not have every feature, but it
> has most and should stay on ESR.
>
> http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/
>

More info:

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/faq/



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