seamonkey
I must run a variety of web browser applications. One of these is seamonkey. Diagnostics: [root@linux-3iz7 opt]# seamonkey/seamonkey XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /opt/seamonkey/libxul.so: libfreetype.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Couldn't load XPCOM. [root@linux-3iz7 opt]# yum install libfreetype.so.6 Loaded plugins: langpacks, nvidia Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package freetype.i686 0:2.4.11-10.el7_1.1 will be installed --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Multilib version problems found. This often means that the root cause is something else and multilib version checking is just pointing out that there is a problem. Eg.: 1. You have an upgrade for freetype which is missing some dependency that another package requires. Yum is trying to solve this by installing an older version of freetype of the different architecture. If you exclude the bad architecture yum will tell you what the root cause is (which package requires what). You can try redoing the upgrade with --exclude freetype.otherarch ... this should give you an error message showing the root cause of the problem. 2. You have multiple architectures of freetype installed, but yum can only see an upgrade for one of those architectures. If you don't want/need both architectures anymore then you can remove the one with the missing update and everything will work. 3. You have duplicate versions of freetype installed already. You can use "yum check" to get yum show these errors. ...you can also use --setopt=protected_multilib=false to remove this checking, however this is almost never the correct thing to do as something else is very likely to go wrong (often causing much more problems). Protected multilib versions: freetype-2.4.11-10.el7_1.1.i686 != freetype-2.4.11-9.el7.x86_64 [root@linux-3iz7 opt]# There does not seem to a X86-64 tar.bz2 runnable binary for Seamonkey, only an IA-32 version, but polymorphism for the above support application (freetype) does not seem to be possible. Any suggestions would be kindly appreciated. The environment is SL 7.1 not yet fully updated to SL 7x. ElRepo and EPEL repositories also are used for applications that are not readily available in the "stock" repo. Yasha Karant
Re: seamonkey
On Tue, 13 Oct 2015, Yasha Karant wrote: I must run a variety of web browser applications. One of these is seamonkey. Diagnostics: [root@linux-3iz7 opt]# seamonkey/seamonkey XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /opt/seamonkey/libxul.so: libfreetype.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Couldn't load XPCOM. [root@linux-3iz7 opt]# yum install libfreetype.so.6 Loaded plugins: langpacks, nvidia ... There does not seem to a X86-64 tar.bz2 runnable binary for Seamonkey, only an IA-32 version, but polymorphism for the above support application (freetype) does not seem to be possible. Any suggestions would be kindly appreciated. The environment is SL 7.1 not yet fully updated to SL 7x. ElRepo and EPEL repositories also are used for applications that are not readily available in the "stock" repo. seamonkey is in the Fedora everything tree. I built it earlier this year from one of the Fedora versions. I had to hack the spec file and the comm-release/mozilla/configure file to force it to use an older version of nss in order to get it to build on stock SL 7. That is presumably why it has not shown up in epel so far, if it ever will. But it works for me, so whatever is hardwired into the build process for build requirements for the nss library versions does not seem to affect my experience with it. cheers, etc. -- deatrich @ triumf.ca, Science/ATLAS PH: +1 604-222-7665 <*> This moment's fortune cookie: Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as satisfying as an income tax refund. -- F. J. Raymond
