271958 - Firefox 1.0 won't install in Mandrake 9.0

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 271092

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Louis Blanchard]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Firefox 1.0

[louis@pcimm094 firefox-installer]$ ./firefox-installer
DLError: /lib/i686/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.3' not found (required by
./libxpcom.so)



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.ran ./firefox-installer
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
DLError: /lib/i686/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.3' not found (required by
./libxpcom.so)


Expected Results:  
Perfect installation

I realize that this is not a bug but but a dependency issue.  Firefox should be
installable; Mandrake 9.0 ain't that old!  Come on, guys.  Windows 95/98/XP is
suppported, why not older versions of Linux??

BTW, Mozilla 1.7 and Firefox up to 0.8 will install and run just fine.

Upgrading glibc is neither easy or recommended, it will break linux.  So, by
requiring glibc-2.3 or newer, you are excluding a substantial chunk of users.

Comment 1

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Don't file bugs on issues that have already been reported and on which you
commented 20 minutes earlier.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 271092 ***