** Reply to message from BandiPat on Tue, 09 Nov 2004 15:26:28 -0500

On Tuesday 09 November 2004 11:13 am, Ed Harrison wrote:

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The install of the new firefox fails with "Couldn't open libxpistub library."

Anybody else see this?

Ed Harrison SuSE 9.1, Kernel 2.6.9-vanilla PolarBar Mailer 1.25a ===========

Ed, I have now installed Firefox from SuSE's rpm and the Firefox-installer and can't seem to replicate your problem.

I didn't realize that SuSE had an rpm for Firefox 1.0. Where is it?

Some things to check that came to mind though. First off, have you ran a "ldd" check on that lib to determine if there are any dependencies missing?

Yes, nothing missing.

Where did you install, an old directory or new?

New

Did you remove the old before installing the new?

No. Used new directory.

Is there a chance you are running mixed installs of the program?

No.

Have you checked the directory to see if the file is there?

Yes. It does not exist in firefox-installer directory. It has to be extracted. The full message in the installer gui is "Extracting libplc4.so..." There is then a pop-up error window that reports "Fatal error [-618]: Couldn't open libxpistub library. OK"

You didn't say from what source you installed from, but I'm guessing you got the installer from mozilla.org?

Correct.

Not sure what else to suggest at this point, it does work.

BandiPat wrote:

On Tuesday 09 November 2004 11:13 am, Ed Harrison wrote:

...

The install of the new firefox fails with "Couldn't open libxpistub library."

Anybody else see this?

Ed Harrison SuSE 9.1, Kernel 2.6.9-vanilla PolarBar Mailer 1.25a

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Ed, I have now installed Firefox from SuSE's rpm and the Firefox-installer and can't seem to replicate your problem. Some things to check that came to mind though. First off, have you ran a "ldd" check on that lib to determine if there are any dependencies missing? Where did you install, an old directory or new? Did you remove the old before installing the new? Is there a chance you are running mixed installs of the program? Have you checked the directory to see if the file is there?

You didn't say from what source you installed from, but I'm guessing you got the installer from mozilla.org?

Not sure what else to suggest at this point, it does work.

Regards, Lee

I tracked it down to where it's looking for libxpistb.so, it's looking for /libxpistub.so, I copied it from the firefox-installer directory to /, then ran firefox-installer successfully. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer =====LINUX ONLY USED HERE=====