Someone suggested I try the Galeon browser, so since it appears on the Mandrake
8.1 KDE menu, I decided to try it. When it didn't load, I decided to try from
the command prompt so I could see if there are any error messages. I got a list
of 12 error messages about missing files - I include one of them here.


[root@shlomo1 root]# galeon
**************************************************
nsNativeComponentLoader:
SelfRegisterDll(/usr/lib/mozilla/components/libmime.so) Load FAILED with error:
libmsgbaseutil.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I looked in the relevant directory and found that **despite** the error
message, the files do exist. Here's a sample.

[root@shlomo1 root]# cd /usr/lib/mozilla/components
[root@shlomo1 components]# ls -la libmi*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        56652 Apr  9  2001 libmimeemitter.so*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       214644 Apr  9  2001 libmime.so*

It occured to me that since the **missing** files are all mozilla files, that I
should try mozilla (which I've never used). It also refused to load from the KDE
menu so I tried from the command prompt and got the following error message:

[root@shlomo1 root]# mozilla
Error sending command. 

I have no idea what this means either. Mozilla is installed.

[root@shlomo1 root]# ls -la /usr/bin/moz*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         4819 Sep 21 13:39 /usr/bin/mozilla*


Reinstalling both Galeon and Mozilla from RPMs didn't change anything.

I looked on Google for the Galeon error and found something **similar**
refering to loading of PNG files, but the problem was not the same as mine and
the suggested solution involved re-compiling Galeon - I don't think this is
relevant for me since I'm using binaries from Mandrake and I assume they do
work.


The system is Mandrake 8.1 and all the RPMs are also Mandake 8.1 - freshly
downloaded from a Mandrake mirror.

[root@shlomo1 root]# ls /tmp/*.rpm
/tmp/galeon-0.12.1-2mdk.i586.rpm 
/tmp/mozilla-0.9.4-3mdk.i586.rpm


Any ideas?



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Date: 25-Jan-2002   Time: 10:28:45

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