From: Mike N. 

On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 14:59:25 -0800, Randall Parker

wrote:

>Of course. You get a shell script with the browser that you have to edit
>and copy to /usr/bin in order to upgrade Firefox. How user friendly.

  I can't figure out why the paths are different from distro to distro -
must be one of those infathomable historical things.   "We'll never
establish a standard - that would be too much work for all those people to
make a one time change to their paths".

>> There was still one more step to the puzzle.  I got the error
>>
>> /usr/local/firefox/firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries:
>> libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directories
>>
>
>I got that too. Why doesn't their release note tell you you need it?
>Does Fedora Core 6 have it while Fedora Core 5 does not?

   I'm running Fedora Core 6 - it must be one of those things where that
version of the runtime didn't ship with another component.

   It would have been nice if there was an RPM that would have done it all
with dependency checking.

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