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installation of thunderbird-91.11.0-2.el8_6.x86_64.rpm

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Greetings:

    The installation of thunderbird-91.11.0-2.el8_6.x86_64.rpm fails with the error message Error: Transaction failed: Error unpacking rpm package thunderbird-91.11.0-2.el8_6.x86_64.  Command issued was  

sudo dnf -y install thunderbird The system is Linux wile-e 4.18.0-372.16.1.el8_6.0.1.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Jul 14 21:39:58 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux running Rocky linux 8. Firefox 102.0.0 is installed. The specific response is as follows:

[rudy@wile-e ~]$ sudo dnf -y install thunderbird Last metadata expiration check: 0:04:28 ago on Fri 22 Jul 2022 04:02:01 PM CDT. Dependencies resolved.

===========================================================================================================================================
Package                             Architecture                   Version                                    Repository                         Size
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Installing:

thunderbird                         x86_64                         91.11.0-2.el8_6                            appstream                         100 M

Transaction Summary

===========================================================================================================================================

Install 1 Package

Total download size: 100 M Installed size: 261 M Downloading Packages: thunderbird-91.11.0-2.el8_6.x86_64.rpm 5.5 MB/s | 100 MB 00:18


Total 5.5 MB/s | 100 MB 00:18 Running transaction check Transaction check succeeded. Running transaction test Transaction test succeeded. Running transaction

 Preparing        :                                                                                                                               1/1 
 Installing       : thunderbird-91.11.0-2.el8_6.x86_64                                                                                            1/1 

Error unpacking rpm package thunderbird-91.11.0-2.el8_6.x86_64

 Verifying        : thunderbird-91.11.0-2.el8_6.x86_64                                                                                            1/1 

Failed:

 thunderbird-91.11.0-2.el8_6.x86_64                                                                                                                   

Error: Transaction failed [rudy@wile-e ~]$ thunderbird XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/lib64/thunderbird/libmozsandbox.so: /lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.26' not found (required by /usr/lib64/thunderbird/libmozsandbox.so) Couldn't load XPCOM. [rudy@wile-e ~]$

This is a new system on which I am trying to install thunderbird. When running, I intend to port everything that I can from an old thunderbird, probably 91.2.0. Can you tell me what I am doing wrong?

Rudy Frahm

Greetings: The installation of thunderbird-91.11.0-2.el8_6.x86_64.rpm fails with the error message Error: Transaction failed: Error unpacking rpm package thunderbird-91.11.0-2.el8_6.x86_64. Command issued was sudo dnf -y install thunderbird The system is Linux wile-e 4.18.0-372.16.1.el8_6.0.1.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Jul 14 21:39:58 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux running Rocky linux 8. Firefox 102.0.0 is installed. The specific response is as follows: [rudy@wile-e ~]$ sudo dnf -y install thunderbird Last metadata expiration check: 0:04:28 ago on Fri 22 Jul 2022 04:02:01 PM CDT. Dependencies resolved. ======================================================================================================================================================= Package Architecture Version Repository Size ======================================================================================================================================================= Installing: thunderbird x86_64 91.11.0-2.el8_6 appstream 100 M Transaction Summary ======================================================================================================================================================= Install 1 Package Total download size: 100 M Installed size: 261 M Downloading Packages: thunderbird-91.11.0-2.el8_6.x86_64.rpm 5.5 MB/s | 100 MB 00:18 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 5.5 MB/s | 100 MB 00:18 Running transaction check Transaction check succeeded. Running transaction test Transaction test succeeded. Running transaction Preparing : 1/1 Installing : thunderbird-91.11.0-2.el8_6.x86_64 1/1 Error unpacking rpm package thunderbird-91.11.0-2.el8_6.x86_64 Verifying : thunderbird-91.11.0-2.el8_6.x86_64 1/1 Failed: thunderbird-91.11.0-2.el8_6.x86_64 Error: Transaction failed [rudy@wile-e ~]$ thunderbird XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/lib64/thunderbird/libmozsandbox.so: /lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.26' not found (required by /usr/lib64/thunderbird/libmozsandbox.so) Couldn't load XPCOM. [rudy@wile-e ~]$ This is a new system on which I am trying to install thunderbird. When running, I intend to port everything that I can from an old thunderbird, probably 91.2.0. Can you tell me what I am doing wrong? Rudy Frahm

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The RPM files are packaged by the distribution, or their upstream package manager repo. So I guess for Rocky Linux that would be Red Hat. My understanding is red hat build their own executable from source before packaging it to the RPM. SO I would suggest you approach either the Rocky support people of the red hat ones. Depending on how the distribution works.

My guess is the RPM is missing bits. This is more common with Linux than it should be. But they have this habit of making dependencies of things not including them in the RPM.