262930 - Fatal error [-618]: Couldn't open xpistub library using RedHat 8.0; no problem with SUSE

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 246173

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Bill]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913
Build Identifier: firefox-1.0PR-i686-linux-gtk2+xft-installer.tar.gz (downloaded Oct. 2, 2004)

While trying to install Firefox on a Linux RedHat 8.0 operating system, the
following error message surfaced: Fatal error [-618]: Couldn't open xpistub
library.  This occurred while extracting libplc4.so.  This problem did not occur
while installing Firefox on a Linux SUSE 9.1 Professional system.  The same
Linux RedHat 8.0 system easily installed an upgrade of Mozilla 1.7.3 after the
failure to install Firefox.  I have seen similar reports for earlier versions of
Mozilla in which it was suggested to simply move libxpistub.so to another file.
 I tried placing this file in several other places to no avail.  I was puzzled
by the Firefox error message in light of the easy Firefox install on SUSE and
the easy Mozilla upgrade on RedHat.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Use a RedHat 8.0 operating system
2.Follow the general install instructions for Mozilla
3.Get the fatal error listed above and below.

Actual Results:  
Fatal error [-618]: Couldn't open xpistub library

Expected Results:  
Install Firefox

Following the general install instructions worked for Mozilla 1.7.3 under RedHat
8.0 and worked for Firefox on SUSE 9.1 Professional.  Odd that it would not work
for Firefox on RedHat 8.0.  Need better install documentation for Firefox in any
event.  Hope this helps.

I have listed the bug as "critical" only because it stops one from even getting
started.

Comment 1

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 246173 ***