299571 - When trying to install 32bit Mozilla using mozilla-installer, failing because of missing xpistub library: Fatal error [-618]: Couldn't open xpistub library: libxpcom.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Installer: XPInstall Engine, defect)

Description

[rwhite78]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050524 Fedora/1.0.4-4 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050524 Fedora/1.0.4-4 Firefox/1.0.4

I recently installed Fedora Core 4 on my AMD64 system.  I noticed that when
using any browser that comes with this distro that I don't have any plugins that
work.  Also, whenever I try to install any plugins they don't work as well.  I
have been trying for several weeks.  Finally someone told me that the plugins
are probably 32 bit and won't work for 64bit software apps, which is what I am
probably running.  After a while of trying to figure out if I'm using 32bit or
64bit Mozilla or Firefox, which I couldn't, I just uninstalled all of them and
am now just trying to install 32bit Mozilla.

This is the file: mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.7.8-installer.tar.gz

When I untar this file, and then 'cd' into the mozilla-installer directory and
then execute the 'mozilla-installer' executable, it starts to work, but about
80% of the way through I get this error messasge pop-up:

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

I don't know what to do.  I really want to get the plugins to work so I can
watch video's and listen to music over the web.  I'm creating a website where
this is the main attraction and I need to be able to test it from my own PC.

If there are 64bit plugins, I think that would help too.  

Thanks

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Download file mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.7.8-installer.tar.gz
2.  Untar it and cd into the newly created directory
3.  Run the executable and the error message will pop-up

Actual Results:  
I get a popup error message that says:  Fatal error [-618]: Couldn't open
xpistub library

Expected Results:  
It should have installed with no problem, so I can use the 32 bit version of
Mozilla on my AMD64 system.

Comment 1

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

Just had the same problem with Debian Sarge and SeaMonkey 1.0a installer. All
the other bugs I found with that error are much older (or relate to Firefox) and
go back to bugs fixed long before or RedHat specific bug.

Whatever the problem is, the error message is unsufficient to offer a solution.

pi

Comment 2

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

Worksforme when using seamonkey-installer instead of seamonkey-installer-bin.
Hopefully you can read this, I cannot, it remains white here, but the cursor
moves ...

pi