On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 6:15 AM, Tom H <tomh0...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 2:10 AM, filip <fi...@fbvnet.be> wrote: >> On Fri, 02 May 2014 22:25:34 -0400 >> Tom Roche <tom_ro...@pobox.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> For background on my problem (and why I very much need to solve it), >>> see >>> http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=190&t=166506&p=855700#p855700 >>> >>> But the essence of the problem appears to be >>> >>> me@it ~ $ /usr/local/share/firefox-3.6.28/firefox-bin >>> bash: /usr/local/share/firefox-3.6.28/firefox-bin: No such file or >>> directory [127]me@it ~ $ >>> lsalh /usr/local/share/firefox-3.6.28/firefox-bin -rwxr-xr-x 1 root >>> staff 44K Mar 6 2012 /usr/local/share/firefox-3.6.28/firefox-bin >> >> Try the following: >> >> file /usr/local/share/firefox-3.6.28/firefox-bin >> ldd /usr/local/share/firefox-3.6.28/firefox-bin >> >> The first command will tell you what kind of file it is, and the second >> will list the shared libraries that it is linked to (assuming it >> actually is a dynamically linked executable). >> >> This is a completely non-standard installion, and my guess is that the >> dynamic linker doesn't have the path to the libraries. >> >> Look in /etc/ld.so.conf and /etc/ld.so.conf.d what path names are >> configured in the dynamic linker. You probably need to add a new path >> with the location the non-standard firefox libraries. Try to find where >> the libraries are installed (somewhere under /usr/local/share maybe ?), >> and create a new .conf file in /etc/ld.so.conf.d >> >> After that, run ldconfig -v to rebuild to ld.so cache. > > It would be better to prepend "ldd ..." (and the actual firefox > command) with "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/share/firefox-3.6.28:standard_path" > rather than add "/usr/local/share/firefox-3.6.28" to the system path.
Sven suggested earlier a i386 chroot and that's probably the best solution other than using an lxc container or a qemu vm. I have another suggestion that I've just tested. Run "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/firefox/firefox-3.6.28:/lib/i386-linux-gnu:/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu ldd /usr/local/firefox-3.6.28/firefox-bin" and install the :i386 packages that correspond to the missing libraries. I'm pretty sure that I "only" installed these for that version of firefox to launch: libasound2:i386 libc6:i386 libdbus-1-3:i386 libgtk2.0-0:i386 libpangocairo-1.0-0:i386 libstdc++6:i386 libxt6:i386 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=sziisr+s2kyw1e7_lxgkn3xeqec54uthhokruog9xp...@mail.gmail.com
