427124 - Requires glib2-2.10+, cairo ,and pango, not specified in requirements documentation, to run.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 405669

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[Marc W. Mengel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.12) Gecko/20080327 Red Hat/1.5.0.12-0.14.el4 Firefox/1.5.0.12 pango-text
Build Identifier: 

firefox won't start on RedHat 4.x systems because it needs pacakges that only come with more recent Linux releases.  These packages should either:
* come with the firefox bundle or
* be listed as requirements.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. try to run firefox on RedHat 4 or Scientific Linux 4 box
2. read error message:
./firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libpangocairo-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Actual Results:  
./firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libpangocairo-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory


Expected Results:  
firefox should start normally :-)


I've worked around this by getting the SRPM's from RedHat 5 and building them for these packages, but this is a fairly steep requirement for the average user...

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/system-requirements-v3.html

    Linux kernel - 2.2.14 or higher with the following libraries or packages:

    * glibc 2.3.2 or higher
    * XFree86-3.3.6 or higher
    * gtk+2.0 or higher
    * fontconfig (also known as xft)
    * libstdc++5

Comment 2

[Brian Polidoro]

Older versions of Red Hat that should be covered by what Christopher A. Aillon said in Bug 418885 Comment #9.

And the system requirements need updating: Bug 405669.