[CentOS] Installing old version of firefox

[Thomas Eriksson]

On 11/14/2014 12:11 PM, Larry Martell wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 3:06 PM, Thomas Eriksson
> <thomas.eriksson at slac.stanford.edu> wrote:
>> On 11/14/2014 12:02 PM, Larry Martell wrote:
>>> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Thomas Eriksson
>>> <thomas.eriksson at slac.stanford.edu> wrote:
>>>> On 11/14/2014 11:46 AM, Larry Martell wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Thomas Eriksson
>>>>> <thomas.eriksson at slac.stanford.edu> wrote:
>>>>>> On 11/14/2014 10:02 AM, Larry Martell wrote:
>>>>>>> I need to install firefox version 24.3.0 on centos version 6.5. Anyone
>>>>>>> know how I can do that? I tried downloading that version directly and
>>>>>>> it fails with:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/local/lib64/firefox/libxul.so:
>>>>>>> libXrender.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>>>>>>> Couldn't load XPCOM.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Get the version you want at ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/
>>>>>> Runs from from the untarred directory without any problems.
>>>>>
>>>>> I did that and I got the error above.
>>>>
>>>> Do you have libXrender installed?
>>>
>>>
>>> Yes.
> 
>> 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
>         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.


Perhaps you downloaded the wrong arch (i386/x86_64)