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  1. Sorry. I forgot to add the error description...

     

     

    This is the error:

     

    XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /home/frank/firefox/libxpcom.so:

    libxul.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

    Couldn't load XPCOM.

     

    The many solutions I have found involve updating the distro's xulrunner packages. But I am not using Mandriva's Firefox but the official compressed file you download from the Mozilla.

    I got the same error with firefox on Mandy 2010 (MCNLive), do you have a link for firefox 17 (tar.bz2) so in the meantime i can keep using firefox on my netbook

  2. Also tried the RC on my desktop pc, all i got was a black screen with a cursor that can move and that's it

    The graphic card is a Nvidia FX5200 and the mobo a VIA K8M800, nothing special. Mageia 1 worked well on this pc

  3. Click right on the icon, choose properties

    Click left on the icon

    Choose other icons

    Search for the folder where you extract the tar and then find firefox/icons and double-click on mozicon128.png

    Then oke, oke, oke, oke untill the properties screen is closed.

     

    Some names could be different on your system, i've a dutch Mandriva version

  4. Hello Willie.

     

    I don't think you need to worry about Mageias' future.

    While it was a fork of Mandriva, it had or has nearly all or most of the original team that made Mandriva such a great OS. It will no longer really depend on Mandriva for its future.

    It is no way comparable to Pclinuxos which at lest originally was mostly the work of one great man.

     

    At the moment, Mandriva2011 is a real mess, especially considering how good 2010.1 was.

     

    Cheers. John.

    Mandriva 2011 i never used it, i use MCNLive based on 2010 and it's stable. I only hope that Mageia with Mageia 2 still fits on a Cd

  5. The alternative is simple, as willie pointed out, just download the tar file from Mozilla and extract this somewhere. Then it's just a case of creating a shortcut to the firefox executable inside here and you're done. No need to go searching for an rpm and getting into a dependency nightmare of which you've just found. Alternatively, updating your system to a newer release of Mandriva, and you'd have Firefox 9 - but a bit extreme for just changing the browser.

    Normaly i install only from MCC but in this case i had to do it this way.

    Why copy it in /usr/lib, simple this is where firefox install itself and all the users can use firefox 8

    In /home you can't

    But as Ian say put the tar in /home extract it and make a shortcut

  6. Thanks Willie,

     

    On a good day, I'm pretty capable of downloading an RPM and double-clicking on it...... maybe a bit more. Downloading a tar and editing some script is beyond where I am willing to go unless I'm pretty desperate.

     

    Did you upgrade from 3.6, and if so did it go smoothly? Did you need to save bookmarks and all other personal bits?

     

    Thanks -- Roger

    AussieJohn is right normaly you install by MCC, but in my case i'm running MCNLive Kris which is based on Mandriva 2010 and have Firefox 3.6 as latest.

    I downloaded firefox 8.?.tar.gz and extract it in /home, got root renamed the old firefox folder and copied the new one in /usr/lib

    Removed the old entry in startmenu and made a new one

    So there is no script used

    Need more info send a pb

  7. I have a aspireone 110 with a 8,9 inch screen and use it for anything. I use openoffice, the gimp, scribus, watching video, playing music, internet, etc

    It's running with KDE from 2 micro usb-sticks (ssd died) 512 mb intern and the speed is good, don't run 3 programms the same time.

    For havy photo editing and that kind of stuff it's no good. But for normal work it's enough.

     

    My daughter hase a samsung with 10 inch and 1 gyg memory 250 gyg hd, she use it for here studie on the university and is very pleased with it.

  8. My five cents, i have a modem - router (smc with one antenna) - 5 netbooks - 1 laptop - 1 pc 1 printer (cable on te router)

    All of them are connected wireless to the router and it works perfectley. My only protections are firewall in the router, mac-adress filtering and wep-key.

  9. When i want to place the home icon on the taskbar it won't work but if i move the home icon to the taskbar en touch the top of the taskbar with the mouse pointer i see a little square appearing when i release the left mouse button the icon is placed at the taskbar.

     

    Hope it helps.

  10. @jazzcomm, do see a grey message on the top left of youre screen just before you been drop back to the inlog screen. If so the burn is bad

     

     

    Further, if you do the first boot of KDEOne you don't need a password if you logout and login you need a login name and password that will be guest and the password is guest

  11. I have had it hooked up on a hard wire to get my updates. I have put the BCMWL5.sys & the inf files in mandriva & my wireless driver still isnt working.

    Where did you put those files, another way to make youre w-lan work with the inf-files is Ndiswrapper

    MCC/internet choose w-lan and then Ndiswrapper, follow the steps.

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