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Topic: Should I upgrade?, ..or try harder with firefox?

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jago25_98

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Posted: Nov. 11 2006,15:11

All I really need is a current firefox.

I tried unpacking the debian tar.gz (see other thread), but that seems to be built against a lib I don't have:

Code Sample

dsl /opt/firefox $ -> ./firefox
./firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I have apt-get. Perhaps I should upgrade into something else? -I have a 20gb HD with 3gb free on this partition.

Thing is, I don't have a CDROM drive so if it goes wrong it's a lot of effort plugging the HDD out and reinstalling.

What would you recommend? Persevere with firefox or risk the messing things up with a dist-upgrade?

- 20gb HDD (4gb root)
- 128mb RAM
- 600mhz salvaged laptop mainboard without case

mikshaw

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Posted: Nov. 11 2006,15:15

There is a very recent build of Firefox 2.0 in the mydsl testing repository:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub....ci.info

It was built using gtk1, so it should work in DSL without the need to add anything else.

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http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/index.html

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Posted: Nov. 12 2006,02:35

If you want to continue trying with your original way, you'd probably need gtk2.

greper

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Posted: Dec. 03 2006,02:34

How would I install that gtk1 firefox 2.0? This machine is only used for Firefox and gmail and unfortunately not having a newer version of firefox which works is driving me insane.