[CentOS] Installing old version of firefox

[Larry Martell]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Thomas Eriksson
<thomas.eriksson at slac.stanford.edu> wrote:
> 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)

I first downloaded i686, and then x86_64. Got the same error with both.