257231 - System Requirements page out of date

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 257102

(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[hacksaw]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
Build Identifier: 

Of course, my first clue was that the system requirements page talks about gtk+
1.2.0, and the newest Linux build has GTK2 in the title. So I was prepared, or
so I thought. I have gtk2.0.4 installed on my system.

Then I installed firefox .9.3 onto my system.

/usr2/src/firefox/firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries:
libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Yeah, no surprise there. I'm running a somewhat update RedHat 7.2 system. stdc++
5? Not a chance.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download firefox for gtk2
2. install it on a redhat 7.2 system that has gtk2.0.4 installed
3. run it

Actual Results:  
It failed to find a needed library.



Expected Results:  
The website should have said what libraries I needed. Please note that telling
me I need a particular version of RedHat isn't very useful. Updating certain
things is possible, updating the system is a much larger problem.

Note that I am marking this bug as critical for an important reason: I blasted
my old firefox 0.8 install with this. I was lucky in that I have a backup of the
directory I was able to restore. Others might not be so lucky.

Comment 1

[Stefan Borggraefe]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 257102 ***