FC2 problem when installing Firefox 3

seow_ming · 06-11-2008, 10:42 AM

I've just installed my old PC with fedora 2 and would like to intall firefox 3 to be the web browser.

after extracted the downloaded firefox 3, i type:

Quote:

./firefox

to run the program but a library name "libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 is missing.

so i search through the internet but just cannot find this i386 version of libpangocairo-1.0-so.0 file..

THEN..

i just downloaded a newer version of this pangocairo-1.12.0-1, but when i'm trying to install it, more libraries missing msg was prompted as follow...

Quote:

[root@adam download]# rpm -iv pango-1.12.0-1.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
cairo >= 0.9.2 is needed by pango-1.12.0-1
glib2 >= 2.6.0-1 is needed by pango-1.12.0-1
libX11 is needed by pango-1.12.0-1
libXext is needed by pango-1.12.0-1
libXft is needed by pango-1.12.0-1
libXrender is needed by pango-1.12.0-1
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4) is needed by pango-1.12.0-1
libcairo.so.2 is needed by pango-1.12.0-1

what shall i do ???

what will you guys do when there are too many missing of library file on a old distro? simply upgrade it into newer distro ?? or just download the needed library one by one?

thanks for advise!

lazlow · 06-11-2008, 10:53 AM

Support for FC2 was dropped years ago. The current release is Fedora 9 (the core was dropped after FC6). Save yourself all the hassles and run something current.

seow_ming · 06-12-2008, 06:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lazlow

Support for FC2 was dropped years ago. The current release is Fedora 9 (the core was dropped after FC6). Save yourself all the hassles and run something current.

Thanks lazlow, to it means when there is a new version released, I've to download and upgrade again? Is this the only way?

Findus · 06-12-2008, 06:33 AM

That will probably be the easiest way. Go to fedoraproject.org, and download the .iso-files from there

- Findus

irishbitte · 06-12-2008, 06:39 AM

Yeah, unfortunately the only real way to ensure support for current software is the remain current in your OS. Windoze people have the same issues, imagine trying to run firefox 3 under Windows 98?!