[CentOS] Installing old version of firefox

Fri Nov 14 20:21:59 UTC 2014
Larry Martell <larry.martell at gmail.com>

On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org> wrote:
> 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.

I do have a 64 bit machine and I tried first the i686, and then
x86_64. Got the same error with both.