jadidi Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 Hi there I have RHEL5.3 box with firefox 10.0.5 . I want to update the firefox. When I extract firefox-25.0b4.tar.bz2 and then run firefox it gives the error msg : Couldn't load XRE functions what can should i do? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isadora Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 Hi Jadidi, Why don't you use the RHEL-provided Firefox-package? This to make sure, you get the right packages pulled in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 I believe that RHEL5.3 libraries are too old for firefox-25. From: mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/25.0a2/system-requirements/ Firefox will not run at all without the following libraries or packages: GTK+ 2.18 or higher GLib 2.22 or higher Pango 1.14 or higher X.Org 1.0 or higher (1.7 or higher is recommended) libstdc++ 4.3 or higher 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jadidi Posted October 9, 2013 Author Share Posted October 9, 2013 Hi Jadidi, Why don't you use the RHEL-provided Firefox-package? This to make sure, you get the right packages pulled in. Hi dear friend I don't know where I could download RHEL-provided Firefox-package? Jadidi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isadora Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 Hi dear friend I don't know where I could download RHEL-provided Firefox-package? Jadidi Sorry, don't use RHEL myself unfortunately. But YUM seems to be your best friend, where it concerns installing/updating software: https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Deployment_Guide/ch-yum.html Best of luck! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jadidi Posted October 11, 2013 Author Share Posted October 11, 2013 Sorry, don't use RHEL myself unfortunately. But YUM seems to be your best friend, where it concerns installing/updating software: https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Deployment_Guide/ch-yum.html Best of luck! :)/> Yes I know yum but I don't know usefull repositires. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isadora Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 Found after a simple Google-search: http://www.tecmint.com/install-firefox-in-rhelcentos-6-3-fedora-17-16/ But,.......RHEL6! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jadidi Posted October 11, 2013 Author Share Posted October 11, 2013 Found after a simple Google-search: http://www.tecmint.com/install-firefox-in-rhelcentos-6-3-fedora-17-16/ But,.......RHEL6! I saw this page and run all its commands before, but it wasn't useful for my case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkerr82508 Posted October 13, 2013 Share Posted October 13, 2013 RHEL is a commercial product. If you don't want to pay for official RedHat support, you'd be better off using one of the RHEL clones - CentOS or Scientific Linux. http://www.redhat.com/archives/redhat-install-list/2009-September/msg00004.html Jim 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted October 14, 2013 Share Posted October 14, 2013 As someone has pointed out, libraries on RHEL 5.3 are too old. Maybe if you updated with yum to RHEL 5.9, but I doubt it. As Jim said in previous message, upgrade to latest RHEL, in which someone already posted RHEL6 and that version of Firefox would work. Or, if you do not have a subscription, change to CentOS - but again version 6 is what you'll need since CentOS is effectively rebadged RHEL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jadidi Posted October 15, 2013 Author Share Posted October 15, 2013 As someone has pointed out, libraries on RHEL 5.3 are too old. Maybe if you updated with yum to RHEL 5.9, but I doubt it. As Jim said in previous message, upgrade to latest RHEL, in which someone already posted RHEL6 and that version of Firefox would work. Or, if you do not have a subscription, change to CentOS - but again version 6 is what you'll need since CentOS is effectively rebadged RHEL. Thanks a lot dears. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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