Firefox OS Testing

[Fintan]

I found this today:
http://dknite.wordpress.com/2012/07/...or-firefox-os/

and wanted to try it out.

I followed the instructions except for the last command:
I replaced this with:

/home/fintan/Downloads/b2g/b2g -profile /home/fintan/Downloads/b2g/gaia/profile/

This threw an error:

XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /home/fintan/Downloads/b2g/libxpcom.so:
libxul.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Couldn't load XPCOM.

Having read a few posts (Thanks google) I suspect this to be a 64bit issue.

Has anyone tried this successfully on a 64bit machine/install?

[dibl]

Look at the comments under the main article -- I think you will need to install the ia32-libs package.

(which is another story -- ia32-libs is headed for history in the transition to multi-arch Linux).

[Fintan]

Hi Dible, searching with synaptic gives me the ia32-libs-multiarch:i386:

This package depends on i386 versions of packages that were removed from
ia32-libs and transitioned to multi-arch. This allows applications using
ia32-libs in previous Ubuntu releases to continue functioning without missing
libraries.

These are installed but also show a lock.

[dibl]

Mehhh -- if they're only compiling a 32-bit Firefox daily testing package, you might be screwed.

On Debian, they've got the ia32-libs package "pinned", so it shows "held back" on the upgrades. Otherwise, I'd have some problems too.