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/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 262 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20130110/92888934/attachment-0004.sig>