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From: Nilesh Govindrajan <me@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to run Firefox Beta?
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 06:40:50
Message-Id: 517A2162.7000206@nileshgr.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How to run Firefox Beta? by Nilesh Govindrajan
1 On Friday 26 April 2013 12:09 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
2 > On Friday 26 April 2013 11:36:51 AM IST, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
3 >> On Friday 26 April 2013 11:05:05 AM IST, Alecks Gates wrote:
4 >>> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 11:57 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan
5 >>> <me@××××××××.com> wrote:
6 >>>> I downloaded Firefox Beta official tbz2 from mozilla.org and extract
7 >>>> into ~
8 >>>> But, ldd libxul.so says libasound.so.2 not found, even though
9 >>>> /usr/lib where
10 >>>> libasound.so.2 exists is in LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
11 >>>>
12 >>>> How to run it?
13 >>>>
14 >>>
15 >>> Are you running amd64 Gentoo and did you download the 32 bit Firefox?
16 >>> You might have to install some emul packages.
17 >>>
18 >>
19 >> I don't think there's any distinction between 32bit and 64bit on this
20 >> page - http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html
21 >> So for compatibility I guess it'll be 32bit?
22 >>
23 >
24 > Yep, it's 32 bit. Installed emul-x86-soundlibs. Now there are no
25 > library issues, but when I run
26 >
27 > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:. ./firefox (or ./firefox-bin) it says:
28 >
29 > ➜ firefox LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:. ./firefox
30 >
31 > (firefox:30259): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in
32 > module_path: "qtcurve",
33 >
34 > (firefox:30259): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in
35 > module_path: "qtcurve",
36 > ➜ firefox
37 >
38 > And just exits. Doesn't even show the window.
39 >
40 > If I run with -ProfileManager, I get some XML Error [see attached image].
41 >
42 > Upstream issue?
43
44 Had attached image, but for some reason thunderbird sent without it. Sorry.

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