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Re: Iceweasel 3.5



On 2009-08-12 19:39:10 -0400, S. Fishpaste wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:11:09 +0100, Graham in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote:
> > On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:27:05 -0400
> > "S. Fishpaste" <SDA@Deer-in-the-headlights.ca.invalid> wrote:
> >
> >> Yup that was what I was doing to get the error message initially;
> >> 
> >> 	:~/firefox-3.5.2$ ./firefox-bin
> >> 	./firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries:
> >> libxul.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> >
> > You're not meant to run ./firefox-bin, you're meant to run ./firefox
> > Try that and it should work.
> 
> Really ?!
> 
> I had tried that; didn't seem to do anything just exited without echoing any
> error message in xterm. Too tired to read /var/log just now.

In any case you must not run firefox-bin directly because it won't
use the right libraries.

Also, check that you don't have a firefox already running (maybe
hidden), otherwise when you run a second instance, it will send a
message to the old one and exit silently (IIRC).

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