Install Firefox on Solaris 9

[rickm550]

Hi,

I just installed Solaris 9 on a SPARC Ultra 10 server and the Netscape Browser thats comes with it is utter crap - its like using Internet Explorer 2.0

Now ive downloaded the latest firefox build (1.0.7) and im a bit stuck on how to install it. It says on their site to just run 'firefox', which i did, but the run window throws errors and stops there.

Does anyone know how to install this on Solaris? Do i need to compile it into some package?

Cheers

Rich

[Miuku.]

Well I run Firefox on Solaris but do tell me what errors it throws at ya, so I can point you in the right direction :)

[rickm550]

Hi there!

This is what it gives:

ld.so.1: /downloads/firefox/firefox-bin: fatal: libm.so.2: open failed: No such file or directory

ld.so.1: /downloads/firefox/firefox-bin: fatal: libm.so.2: open failed: No such file or directory

ld.so.1: /downloads/firefox/firefox-bin: fatal: libm.so.2: open failed: No such file or directory

ld.so.1: /downloads/firefox/firefox-bin: fatal: libm.so.2: open failed: No such file or directory

ld.so.1: /downloads/firefox/firefox-bin: fatal: libm.so.2: open failed: No such file or directory

ld.so.1: /downloads/firefox/firefox-bin: fatal: libm.so.2: open failed: No such file or directory

ld.so.1: /downloads/firefox/firefox-bin: fatal: libm.so.2: open failed: No such file or directory

ld.so.1: /downloads/firefox/firefox-bin: fatal: libm.so.2: open failed: No such file or directory

ld.so.1: /downloads/firefox/firefox-bin: fatal: libpangoxft-1.0.so.0: open failed: No such file or directory

ld.so.1: /downloads/firefox/firefox-bin: fatal: relocation error: file /downloads/firefox/components/libxpconnect.so: symbol fmod: referenced symbol not found

Killed

[Miuku.]

Seems like you're missing a ton of libraries.

Have you ever used the BlastWave.org Sun repositories? I recommend you get to know them so you can install packages via pkg_get.

Please visit http://www.blastwave.org/ for more info.

[rickm550]

Yeah this is a clean install with only oracle and some other tid bits from sunfreeware.com

I'll give that site a blast

Cheers

Rich

[raid517]

A good but rather obvious hind when you get messages about missing files when you try to install things in any Unix is to always read the output - and if it says a file or library is missing, then generally the likelyhood is that it probably is.

Again it may seem obvious, but you have no idea how many people neglect to read the output of their errors - and then just freak and ask for help without even mentioning what those errors are. The outut of errors in Unix is generally always meaningful.

GJ