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Where do I find libpangocairo-1.0.so.0?

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phutchis
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I am trying to upgrade Firefox from 1.5.0.12 to 3.6.13. When I try to run it, I get:

firefox/firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libpangocairo-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Where do I get libpangocairo-1.0.so.0?

I am trying to upgrade Firefox from 1.5.0.12 to 3.6.13. When I try to run it, I get: firefox/firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libpangocairo-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Where do I get libpangocairo-1.0.so.0?

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the-edmeister
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You would have to install that package from the RedHat repository. Best to ask about that in RedHat support.

Have you considered installing a newer distro that has the modern libraries and packages that the newer versions of Firefox require? Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 4 is from 2006-03-07 - it is almost 5 years old. You might need more than one updated package, those error / warning messages appear serially - fix one and then the next one appears, and you may have that happen repeatedly.

phutchis
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Upgrading the whole OS is not a viable option in this situation (long story).

Maybe it would work to go the other direction: what's the most recent Firefox that will run on this system without getting into dependency hell?

the-edmeister
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My guess is that Firefox 2.0.0.x versions would probably be the latest that would work. See if your version of RedHat meets Firefox 2.0 system requirements:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/system-requirements-v2.html

Firefox 3.0 had many changes that rendered older versions of most operating systems as being no longer compatible. I am far from an expert with Linux (more like a real noob), but I did a lot of research for updating my EeePC a few years ago, and it seems like most Linux distros from 2006 thru like mid-2008 just didn't have the necessary libraries or packages for Firefox 3.0+ versions. I currently have a custom Netbook distro called Easy Peasy installed, which was made from Ubuntu 10.04 .

Win98/SE/ME and MacOSX 10.3.9, along with most mid-2008 and older Linux distros just don't work with Firefox 3.0 thru 3.6 versions. The same thing is happening with Firefox 4.0 dropping compatibility for some OS's - on MacOSX support for the PPC hardware is gone, and W2K & WinXP SP1/2 isn't blocked, but it isn't supported either.

phutchis
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Worth a try, if I can find the download somewhere. The download links on that page take me to the 3.6.13 download :(

the-edmeister
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Sorry I didn't think of giving you the FTP folder for downloading 2.0.0.20.
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/2.0.0.20/linux-i686/en-US/

phutchis
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Found it! Old releases are under http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases

phutchis
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Looks like we posted at almost the same time :)

2.0.0.20 does run on this system. That will solve the problem until I can get an OS upgrade (already in the pipe, but at least a few weeks away).