Re: [gentoo-user] How to run Firefox Beta?

[Nilesh Govindrajan]

On Friday 26 April 2013 12:10:34 PM IST, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
> On Friday 26 April 2013 12:09 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
>> On Friday 26 April 2013 11:36:51 AM IST, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
>>> On Friday 26 April 2013 11:05:05 AM IST, Alecks Gates wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 11:57 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan
>>>> <me@××××××××.com> wrote:
>>>>> I downloaded Firefox Beta official tbz2 from mozilla.org and extract
>>>>> into ~
>>>>> But, ldd libxul.so says libasound.so.2 not found, even though
>>>>> /usr/lib where
>>>>> libasound.so.2 exists is in LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
>>>>>
>>>>> How to run it?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Are you running amd64 Gentoo and did you download the 32 bit Firefox?
>>>> You might have to install some emul packages.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I don't think there's any distinction between 32bit and 64bit on this
>>> page - http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html
>>> So for compatibility I guess it'll be 32bit?
>>>
>>
>> Yep, it's 32 bit. Installed emul-x86-soundlibs. Now there are no
>> library issues, but when I run
>>
>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:. ./firefox (or ./firefox-bin) it says:
>>
>> ➜  firefox  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:. ./firefox
>>
>> (firefox:30259): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in
>> module_path: "qtcurve",
>>
>> (firefox:30259): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in
>> module_path: "qtcurve",
>> ➜  firefox
>>
>> And just exits. Doesn't even show the window.
>>
>> If I run with -ProfileManager, I get some XML Error [see attached
>> image].
>>
>> Upstream issue?
>
> Had attached image, but for some reason thunderbird sent without it.
> Sorry.

Never mind, I found the mozilla overlay. It has firefox beta.