[CentOS] Installing old version of firefox

[Jonathan Billings]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 03:11:48PM -0500, Larry Martell wrote:
> > Try doing a 'ldd /usr/local/lib64/firefox/libxul.so'
> > Should give you some hints.
> 
> # ldd /usr/local/lib64/firefox/libxul.so
>         linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0x00cb7000)
>         libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x003c3000)
>         libsmime3.so => not found
>         libssl3.so => not found
>         libnss3.so => not found
>         libnssutil3.so => not found
>         libXrender.so.1 => not found
>         libmozsqlite3.so => not found
>         libasound.so.2 => not found
>         librt.so.1 => /lib/librt.so.1 (0x00e13000)
>         libnspr4.so => not found
>         libplc4.so => not found
>         libplds4.so => not found
>         libmozalloc.so => not found
>         libdbus-glib-1.so.2 => not found
>         libdbus-1.so.3 => not found
>         libgobject-2.0.so.0 => not found
>         libglib-2.0.so.0 => not found
>         libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 => not found
>         libatk-1.0.so.0 => not found
>         libgio-2.0.so.0 => not found
>         libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 => not found
>         libfreetype.so.6 => not found
>         libfontconfig.so.1 => not found
>         libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 => not found
>         libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 => not found
>         libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 => not found
>         libpango-1.0.so.0 => not found
>         libcairo.so.2 => not found
>         libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => not found
>         libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x00814000)
>         libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x00a2b000)
>         libXt.so.6 => not found
>         libgthread-2.0.so.0 => not found
>         libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x0064a000)
>         libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00b83000)
>         libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00ec9000)
>         libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x006b7000)
>         libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x001f5000)
>         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00592000)
>         libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 (0x003f4000)
>         libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0x0038c000)
> 
> These libs exist, just not where it's looking for them apparently.

While you put it in a directory that makes me think you have a 64-bit
system, many of those directories that it finds are for 32-bit
libraries.  I suspect that you need to either find a 64-bit firefox
tarball, or install all those 32-bit libraries.

-- 
Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>