[CentOS] Installing old version of firefox

[Marcelo Diaz]

Mozilla Portable Firefox
<http://www.taringa.net/posts/downloads/12192930/Mozilla-Firefox-Portable-Espanol.html>

and use it with wine

 Marcelo Diaz



On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 6:13 PM, Larry Martell <larry.martell at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Thomas Eriksson
> <thomas.eriksson at slac.stanford.edu> wrote:
> > On 11/14/2014 12:22 PM, Larry Martell wrote:
> >> 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.
> >>
> >
> > Well, the example you gave is a 32bit library, it picks up shared
> > libraries from /usr/lib and not from /usr/lib64
> >
> > Check with the file command that you really have installed the
> > version you think you have.
>
>
> I did have the 32 bit version. I see what happened - I downloaded
> both, but both times I un-tarred the same file (the 32 bit one). They
> were downloaded with the same name and wget put (1) on the second one,
> but I didn't notice that. The 64 bit one works fine. Thanks everyone
> for the help.
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