Having difficulties to install firefox on Solaris 8 (sparc)

[cyan01]

Hi, Experts,

I am having trouble in installation of firefox 1.0.4 on solaris 8 (ultra sparc 5). I have installed all the patches recommended. After I ran firefox, I got following error message:

ld.so.1: ./firefox-bin: fatal: libgtk-1.2.so.0: open failed: No such file or directory
ld.so.1: ./firefox-bin: fatal: libgdk-1.2.so.0: open failed: No such file or directory
ld.so.1: ./firefox-bin: fatal: libgmodule-1.2.so.0: open failed: No such file or directory
ld.so.1: ./firefox-bin: fatal: libglib-1.2.so.0: open failed: No such file or directory
Segmentation Fault - core dumped

Can someone teach me how to solve this? Thanks!

p.s. the actual file name I downloaded is: firefox1.0.4-sparc-sun-solaris2.8.tar.bz2

 

[bfitzmai]

Cyan01,
First check to see if these libraries are actually on your workstation. If they are, Solaris uses 2 different environment variables to find libraries. Put the path to the libraries in environment PATH and also LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

 

[cyan01]

Thank you, bfitzmai.

I did check those files and found they are not on my workstation. For example, one comand I used was:

 sable 7 => tar tvf firefox1.0.4-sparc-sun-solaris2.8.tar | grep libgtk
-rwxr-xr-x   0/0   157020 May 12 08:30 2005 firefox/libgtkembedmoz.so
-rwxr-xr-x   0/0    22208 May 12 08:30 2005 firefox/libgtksuperwin.so
-rwxr-xr-x   0/0    15012 May 12 08:30 2005 firefox/libgtkxtbin.so

In addition, I also tried using "find / -name XXXX". No luck. How could this happen? I can hardly understand why these files are not included in the original tar file.

Any thoughts?

 

[bfitzmai]

According to the README, you are going to need the GTK libraries... You can download them from

http://www.sunfreeware.com.

The README states not to use version 1.2. There is a version 2.2.4 available. The readme states the libraries should be placed in /usr/local/lib. Never installed FireFox... What I would try to do is install the gtk libraries and see if Firefox runs.

 

[bfitzmai]

I take that back... By your first post, Foxfire is looking for version 1.2