259544 - firefox-installer-bin needs libstdc++.so.5, this is not listed in system requirements

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

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

Description

[Gary Beckmann]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803
Build Identifier: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/0.10/firefox-1.0PR-i686-linux-gtk2+xft-installer.tar.gz

Attempted to use the installer on a Redhat 7.3 system  ("uname" -a returns
Linux solling.thcg.net 2.4.20-28.7bigmem #1 SMP Thu Dec 18 11:04:21 EST 2003
i686 unknown
Installer will not start because it cannot find libstd++.so.5 -- the system
requirements don't list this need.  At a miminum this requirement should be
listed to save us (and your server) some downloads.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.in firefox-installer directory type ./firefox-installer
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
nothing

Expected Results:  
installed firefox 1.0 release candidate

Comment 1

[Felix Miata]

Moving to documentation -> system requirements. Zip builds won't run without
libstdc++5 either. I've fixed
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/system-requirements.html with doctor.