First, Hello, my name is Brian and probably a potential full-time linux user.
What i like best so far is that linux requires thinking, thus facing allot of challenges, which i don't mind
Second, i have a confession to make : I'm kind of a newbie to linux, but willing to learn. After trying out several distributions , including Mandriva, Suse, and Ubuntu, i decided to go with Kubuntu (6.06) because i really like the KDE shell.
Now onto the problem, I tried to install Firefox 2.0 today but ran into some problems. What i did was simple. I downloaded the tar to my download folder (home/sickmonkey/downloads/, and uncompressed it to /opt. (I've red that in a tutorial or something). After the uncompressing (?) was done i created a shortcut to my desktop that linked to the following file
'/opt/firefox/firefox'
When i double click the icon it shows "Firefox - Loading application" on the taskbar and a nice bouncing firefox logo next to my cursor. After a few seconds the firefox thingy disappears from the taskbar and the bouncing logo disappears. However, firefox did not start whatsoever.
After a few searches on this forum i followed a few steps which eventually led me to execute the following command in console
sickmonkey@sickmonkey-laptop:/opt/firefox$ ./firefox
this gives me the following output
./firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
So, as far as my linux knowledge and common knowledge reaches, i think this is an error caused because :
a) I don't have the libgtk library installed
b) I have the libgtk library, but i need to edit some firefox config file and get that to point towards the folder where the libgtk library can be found.
So, my question is ; Which of the following answers is correct? And how do i see if i have the libgtk libraries installed?
What i like best so far is that linux requires thinking, thus facing allot of challenges, which i don't mind
Second, i have a confession to make : I'm kind of a newbie to linux, but willing to learn.
After trying out several distributions , including Mandriva, Suse, and Ubuntu, i decided to go with Kubuntu (6.06) because i really like the KDE shell. Now onto the problem, I tried to install Firefox 2.0 today but ran into some problems. What i did was simple. I downloaded the tar to my download folder (home/sickmonkey/downloads/, and uncompressed it to /opt. (I've red that in a tutorial or something). After the uncompressing (?) was done i created a shortcut to my desktop that linked to the following file
'/opt/firefox/firefox'
When i double click the icon it shows "Firefox - Loading application" on the taskbar and a nice bouncing firefox logo next to my cursor. After a few seconds the firefox thingy disappears from the taskbar and the bouncing logo disappears. However, firefox did not start whatsoever.
After a few searches on this forum i followed a few steps which eventually led me to execute the following command in console
sickmonkey@sickmonkey-laptop:/opt/firefox$ ./firefox
this gives me the following output
./firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
So, as far as my linux knowledge and common knowledge reaches, i think this is an error caused because :
a) I don't have the libgtk library installed
b) I have the libgtk library, but i need to edit some firefox config file and get that to point towards the folder where the libgtk library can be found.
So, my question is ; Which of the following answers is correct? And how do i see if i have the libgtk libraries installed?
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