Re: Problems Installing Mozilla on Solaris

[email protected] (Iain Collins) wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> Jim Dunn <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Nicole Harvey wrote:
> > >Hi Guys,
> > >
> > >I am trying to install mozilla 1.3 on solaris 2.7. Can any one point
> > >me to some step by step instructions of installation. I downloaded
> > >.tar.gz file from mozilla .org and extracted the tar ball to get the
> > >required files. In the mozilla directory I see a readme.txt which says
> > >that run mozilla and when I try to do this I get the following error
> > >message from my machine
> > >
> > >ld.so.1: ./mozilla-bin: fatal: relocation error: file ./mozilla-bin:
> > >symbol gtk_set_locale: referenced symbol not found
> > >Killed
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> What I want to know is: How (in the simplist way possible) can I get
> Netscape 7 / Mozilla working with my existing install *without*
> screwing up Gnome 2.0 (which, unlike Gnome 1.4, installes all over the
> place in /usr, not in /opt/gnome-$version)?

Okay, in a followup to my own post, two easy ways to install a recent
build of Mozilla/Netscape on Solaris are:

a) By downloading the Solaris Netscape Package and patches from
netscape.com.

This is the least 'quick and easy' as the Netscape required patches
package (which must be installed prior to the Netscape package itself)
are over 40MB, the actual Netscape package being 120 MB. Added to
this, if you are running Solaris 8 (which I am, for legacy software
compatiblity reasons) then you'll find you also need to install the
Solaris 8 Cluster patch, which is around 880 MB.

I had to force-install one of the patches due it being lame and
getting confused about already installed patch number versions.

b) To install Mozilla, the easiest way is to use 'pkg-get' from
http://www.blastwave.org/.

pkg-get is, from a user perspective, a little like apt-get (both in
syntax, and in that it can resolve depandancy issues when
downloading). It doesn't have many packages, but it's very simple to
install use and has reasonably recent versions of stuff.

It's a lot quicker than installing Netscape, but I must say my at
least Netscape build is pretty quick and very stable (if you don't
mind having to disable the NS bloatware:).

pkg-get installs everything in /opt/csw/ so it won't break any of your
other installed applications.

HTH.

-- 
Iain Collins