finally figured out the problem. the file libxpistub.so is in the /usr/lib/mozilla-1.2.1 folder. just copied that to /usr/lib and worked fine
"BlankMan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 23:57:10 -0600, John Smith wrote: > > > I am not sure I am in the correct newsgroup, but this problem seems to > > stem from the XPInstall shared library. The Netscape/Mozilla installers > > fail every time with "Fatal error [~618]: Couldn't open xpistub > > library", this is not specific to my installation (libxpistub.so is in > > my standard library path and is in ld.so.conf, and several posters have > > similar messages w/o a response or fix - google of "~618 xpistub" turns > > up bad installs from back in 2001); I am wondering if this is a result > > of version mismatch of the shared library, my current installation is > > Netscape 7.02 (Gecko/20030208). Also the installations fail on > > Extration of libplc4.so (which is also in my std lib path). I cannot > > find any options for turning on debug or verbose reporting. Any > > thoughts/fixes/redirection would be appreciated. I have tried clean > > install path using different options for install each time, I have even > > extracted xpcom.xpi and manually installed the shared libraries. I have > > used both -bin and -install binaries for the installation, both failing. > > Howdy, > I figure'd out what went wrong, in file > mozilla/xpinstall/wizard/unix/src2/nsXIEngine.cpp:655 > libpath is = to NULL ; this is a big problem, since it is searching the root > directory for libxpistub.so (exact line: > sprintf(libpath,"%s/%s",libpath,XPISTUB);. Short fix: cp libxpistub.so from std. > library location to root dir (if you have privledges) and remove it > afterwards. Perhaps I should submit a patch for this... Hope this helps > someone. _______________________________________________ Mozilla-xpinstall mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mozilla-xpinstall
