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Devin: VMware Server problems on Fedora 8, kernel 2.6.24.3-12.fc8

nospam@example.com (Devin) — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:34:10 -0600

Thanks, William, for the heads up. I have changed the folder name.

William: VMware Server problems on Fedora 8, kernel 2.6.24.3-12.fc8

nospam@example.com (William) — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:07:15 -0600

fyi, when I unpacked the archive, the directory was named slightly differently and required the following:
cd vmware-any-any-update116
(yeah, doesn't seem like much but it'll keep a newbie like myself from chasing their tail for 10 min.)

rick dangerous: VMware Server problems on Fedora 8, kernel 2.6.24.3-12.fc8

nospam@example.com (rick dangerous) — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 05:22:48 -0600

thank you it worked for me too

DoZerg: VMware Server problems on Fedora 8, kernel 2.6.24.3-12.fc8

nospam@example.com (DoZerg) — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 01:01:36 -0600

my host OS is WindowXP, with vmware 6.0.2 build 59824. i updated the guest OS to 2.6.24.3-12.fc8-i686, and found that the shared folder doesnt work.
i tried any thing i can find from www, including "vmware-any-any-update-116.tgz", but failed.
would someone tell me what to do?
Thanks a lot!

jackfruit501: VMware Server problems on Fedora 8, kernel 2.6.24.3-12.fc8

nospam@example.com (jackfruit501) — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:57:19 -0600

The patch worked perfectly for me.

Thanks.

stamparm: VMware Server problems on Fedora 8, kernel 2.6.24.3-12.fc8

nospam@example.com (stamparm) — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 02:04:42 -0600

Thanks! It worked for me

toto: VMware Server problems on Fedora 8, kernel 2.6.24.3-12.fc8

nospam@example.com (toto) — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:54:37 -0600

works nicely here... thanks!

Fo Leez: GoDaddy Apraises Our One-Word .COM at $48.00!!!

nospam@example.com (Fo Leez) — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:19:30 -0600

Proves that GoDaddy is run by a bunch of con men. The word on the street is that GoDaddy uses sharp and shady business practices especially wgen dealing with customers and ISVs.

Anonymous: VMware Server problems on Fedora 8, kernel 2.6.24.3-12.fc8

nospam@example.com () — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:49:00 -0600

how can you peaople claim it works when it actually doesnt?!

Lawrence D'Oliveiro: Using PulseAudio sound server on Fedora 8

nospam@example.com (Lawrence D'Oliveiro) — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 03:09:14 -0600

Just a note that setsid is a bit more modern and more elegant to use than nohup.

Rickaroni: No Mouse Pointer on CentOS 5

nospam@example.com (Rickaroni) — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:33:37 -0700

NICE!

boby: No Mouse Pointer on CentOS 5

nospam@example.com (boby) — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 07:30:43 -0600

This happened when i installed nvidia drivers on centos5 via yum from rpmforge, rebooted and no cursor. Simple but works - excellent fix!

Patrick: No Mouse Pointer on CentOS 5

nospam@example.com (Patrick) — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 18:51:03 -0600

Woo hoo! Thanks alot!

thorolf: No Mouse Pointer on CentOS 5

nospam@example.com (thorolf) — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 04:22:46 -0600

my captain, my king

thank you very much

Logi: No Mouse Pointer on CentOS 5

nospam@example.com (Logi) — Mon, 21 May 2007 04:23:35 -0600

thanks for that

Steve: No Mouse Pointer on CentOS 5

nospam@example.com (Steve) — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 13:31:39 -0600

It's a problem in KDE as well. Thanks for the tip! I was stumped over this until coming across your post.

SonicSabre: HOWTO: Install Firefox 2.0 on Fedora Core 6

nospam@example.com (SonicSabre) — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 03:55:26 -0700

I used the "yum --enablerepo=development update firefox" command and after dl everything it gives this error when trying to install, for a lot of files, not just this one.

Transaction Check Error: file /usr/share/pkgconfig/gnome-doc-utils.pc from install of gnome-doc-utils-stylesheets-0.12.0-1.fc8 conflicts with file from package gnome-doc-utils-0.8.0-2.fc6

Sajestanus: HOWTO: Install Firefox 2.0 on Fedora Core 6

nospam@example.com (Sajestanus) — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:04:15 -0700

What do you mean you're running X86_64? X86 means 32bit and 64 means 64bit.

Jim Neeland: HOWTO: Install Firefox 2.0 on Fedora Core 6

nospam@example.com (Jim Neeland) — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 18:07:37 -0600

I've also done the suggested:
yum --enable=development update firefox

and had the same consequence, which is that yum downloads
the entire development repository (576 MB!), yet yum fails
with conflicting updates Based on this, I wouldn't recommend
this path to Firefox 2.

Jim

Mike - Austin: HOWTO: Install Firefox 2.0 on Fedora Core 6

nospam@example.com (Mike - Austin) — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:15:32 -0600

Ths sucks. All the suggestions listed here were of no help in updating to Firefox 2.0 on a fresh install of FC6.

Mike - Austin: HOWTO: Install Firefox 2.0 on Fedora Core 6

nospam@example.com (Mike - Austin) — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 02:08:04 -0600

Sorry for the previous rant.

In the firefox shell script you need to change moz_libdir to

moz_libdir=/usr/local/firefox

Then Option 3 works.

Option 1 and option 2 gnerated many conflicts on a fresh install of FC6.

Rob Sprost: HOWTO: Install Firefox 2.0 on Fedora Core 6

nospam@example.com (Rob Sprost) — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:06:41 -0600

I tried all 3 options. 1 & 2 did not work for me (results shown below), however I was ultimately successful with option 3.

If anyone has any ideas as to how to make options 1 or 2 work, please let me know.

Thanks!
-Rob

Option 1 results:

[rob@localhost ~]$ sudo yum --enablerepo=development update firefox
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package firefox.i386 0:2.0.0.8-1.fc8 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: system-bookmarks for package: firefox
--> Processing Dependency: gecko-libs = 1.8.0.7 for package: devhelp
--> Processing Dependency: firefox = 1.5.0.7-7.fc6 for package: firefox-devel
--> Processing Dependency: gecko-libs = 1.8.0.7 for package: yelp
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package devhelp.i386 0:0.16.1-2.fc8 set to be updated

... [omitted] ...

--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: xorg-x11-drv-joystick for package: xorg-x11-drivers
--> Processing Dependency: xorg-x11-drv-elo2300 for package: xorg-x11-drivers
--> Processing Dependency: gnome-keyring = 0.6.0 for package: gnome-keyring-devel
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package gnome-keyring-devel.i386 0:2.20.1-3.fc8 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: xorg-x11-drv-joystick for package: xorg-x11-drivers
--> Processing Dependency: xorg-x11-drv-elo2300 for package: xorg-x11-drivers
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: db4 = 4.3.29-9.fc6 is needed by package db4-devel
[rob@localhost ~]$

Option 2 results:

[rob@localhost ~]$ sudo rpm -Uvh http://remi.collet.free.fr/rpms/fc6.i386/remi-release-1-2.fc6.remi.noarch.rpm
Password:
Retrieving http://remi.collet.free.fr/rpms/fc6.i386/remi-release-1-2.fc6.remi.noarch.rpm
error: skipping http://remi.collet.free.fr/rpms/fc6.i386/remi-release-1-2.fc6.remi.noarch.rpm - transfer failed - Unknown or unexpected error
warning: _url_cache[0] 0xa2e7d78 nrefs(1305448895) != 1 ( )
[rob@localhost ~]$

Option 3 results:

# mv firefox-2.*.tar.gz /usr/local/
# cd /usr/local
# tar xvfz firefox-2.*.tar.gz
# mv /usr/bin/firefox /usr/bin/firefox15
# ln -s /usr/local/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox

[rob@localhost bin]$ ./firefox
/usr/local/firefox-2.0.0.8/firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

So it didn't work either. But I was able to install libstdc++.so.5 as follows:

yum install libstdc++.so.5

That installed successfully, and then I was able to successfully start up firefox.

Glen: HOWTO: Install Firefox 2.0 on Fedora Core 6

nospam@example.com (Glen) — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 10:27:16 -0600

I went with option 2 as well but didnt want to run yum update (I'm not THAT brave...) and was getting errors with yum update firefox. For some odd reason when I ran yum update firefox-devel everything worked fine. I am running X86_64 and hope this helps someone.

What is Firefox?: HOWTO: Install Firefox 2.0 on Fedora Core 6

nospam@example.com (What is Firefox?) — Wed, 09 May 2007 21:52:24 -0600

For those who do download the rpm, don't install it via the rpm command, but rather via yum:
# yum localinstall firefox*.rpm

This way yum will be aware of what is installed on your system.

devhen: HOWTO: Install Firefox 2.0 on Fedora Core 6

nospam@example.com (devhen) — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:42:16 -0600

@ rituraj :

The package you need is compat-libstdc++-33. Do this:

The easiest way to find which package you need for a particular file is like this:

Cheers,
Devin

coolkid: HOWTO: Install Firefox 2.0 on Fedora Core 6

nospam@example.com (coolkid) — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 06:41:57 -0600

thanks. Ur tutorial is very good^^.

joe: HOWTO: Install Firefox 2.0 on Fedora Core 6

nospam@example.com (joe) — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 04:04:38 -0600

Thanks...for the great help...i installed the firefox2 from option 2 in one go...

Thanks a lot

Serendippo Italicus: HOWTO: Install Firefox 2.0 on Fedora Core 6

nospam@example.com (Serendippo Italicus) — Sun, 20 May 2007 08:37:34 -0600

Hi, Devin - great post for us Fedorians...
I run into it while googling for a way out of such a puzzle.
I chose "Option 3", but for some reason it has not worked for me. I carefully followed your instructions, but when I launched Fx, it started checking "Compatibility Updates" (so version 2 should be there), then nothing more -- I had to close it by means of "top" command (k PID # and so on).

Disappointedly I have tried to resort to the former situation by simply renaming
# /usr/bin/firefox15 /usr/bin/firefox
it asked me if it was ok to overwrite, I said yes, it duly executed, so I expected Fx 1.5 was restored, but Firefox still cannot start (BTW, I also rebooted a couple of times).

Now my question is: is there any chance to have Fx 1.5 run again, without performing the somewhat 'radical'
# yum remove firefox
# yum install firefox
(and before engaging in the other 2 options you have kindly shared with the rest of the worlds) ???

Thanks a lot in advance, and best wishes!

baLaJi: HOWTO: Install Firefox 2.0 on Fedora Core 6

nospam@example.com (baLaJi) — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 05:05:27 -0600

hi all,

i'm using fedora core 6. i had the same problem of not being able to deploy and use firefox 2.0.0.4. all i did was use the yum install method to install libstdc++ for .33 and .so.5. then i issued yum install firefox. now i can run both firefox 1.5 and 2 (but not simultaneusly). my problem, rather puzzling situation is how can these two coexist? won't the updated libraries for 2 be incompatible for 1.5? anyone answer?

thanx,
baLaJi

Balaji: HOWTO: Install Firefox 2.0 on Fedora Core 6

nospam@example.com (Balaji) — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 03:51:54 -0600

hello everyone,

this forum’s been dormant like cyberciti for a while i guess. let me dehibernate (pardon my pun) it.

i’ve two partitions in my sata one booting xp and the other fedora 6. i wanted to access my xp data booting into linux. so as root, i did the required ‘mount’ (mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/c -t ntfs-3g -r -o umask=0222) in /etc/fstab. i’ve a user account which i log into when i’m using linux normally. now my problem is i’m not able to access the xp partition thru this. with root it’s fine but i can’t be logging in as root.

early help would be appreciated.

thanx in advance,
baLaJi

aravind: HOWTO: Install Firefox 2.0 on Fedora Core 6

nospam@example.com (aravind) — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 01:18:47 -0600

I run the command

# yum --enablerepo=development update firefox
it started installing and it still keep going on installing lot of things even after one hour

any suggestions ?

devhen: HOWTO: Install Firefox 2.0 on Fedora Core 6

nospam@example.com (devhen) — Tue, 01 May 2007 16:47:31 -0600

@ Justin:

Yes, those instructions will work. Just use the Thunderbird tar.gz and replace any instance of 'firefox' in the instructions with 'thunderbird'. In the end you should have thunderbird installed to /usr/local/thunderbird and issuing the command 'thunderbird' will launch Thunderbird 2.0. The command 'thunderbird15' will launch Thunderbird 1.5.

Cheers,
Devin

Justin: HOWTO: Install Firefox 2.0 on Fedora Core 6

nospam@example.com (Justin) — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 17:17:41 -0600

Thanks for this post, I am not very Linux/Fedora literate yet and it has been very helpful to update my Firefox. I want to install Thunderbird 2, but the yum action only installs 1.5. Will your instructions here about installing Firefox from the tar.gz file work for Thunderbird as well???

Bob Maple: HOWTO: Install Firefox 2.0 on Fedora Core 6

nospam@example.com (Bob Maple) — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:57:27 -0600

I do not understand, is the remi repo supposed to show up in the yum repo directory after running the rpm? I have i86_64 and I need to install thunderbird because the email on this machine doesn't filter spam very well but first there is a mess with libraries and then people say to run yum this and yum that and I just want the program to install and work. I look everywhree and my eyes start to bleed. bottome line is how do I make the right repo so stuff will start working without going insane?

rituraj: HOWTO: Install Firefox 2.0 on Fedora Core 6

nospam@example.com (rituraj) — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:35:24 -0600

hii devhen....

I got this error while trying to install wth tar package

everything went fine wth ur instructions but finally when i issued command

[root@localhost local]# firefox
/usr/local/firefox/firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[root@localhost local]#

above error returned...any soln to it