Here's how you can run Firefox 5 and enjoy a modern browser and not have
to do unset LD_PRELOAD before running Firefox
1) Set Proxy
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If necessary, set the system proxy or set a proxy by hand in the
terminal where you will run yum
http_proxy=http://server.fqdn:port;export http_proxy
2) Configure Public Yum
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If you don't have access to ULN, configure your server for Oracle's
public yum server.
cd /etc/yum.repos.d
wget http://public-yum.oracle.com/public-yum-el5.repo
Edit /etc/yum.repos.d/public-yum-el5.repo and change enabled from 0 to 1
for the update you are using. For instance if I was running OL 5.6, I'd
edit the section that starts with [ol5_u6_base]
If unsure of the update, cat /etc/redhat-release to see what version of
OL is installed.
3) Install / Update required software
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Install or update the following:
libevent-1.4.13-1.i386
libstdc++-4.1.2-48.el5.i386
gtk2-engines-2.8.0-3.el5.i386
4) Download FF 5
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Download Firefox 5 for Linux:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html
Extract and move to /opt/firefox
remove symlink of /usr/bin/firefox and create new symlink.
ln -s /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox
mkdir /opt/firefox/plugins (so you can drop plugins in there later)
5) Get required libraries that are not part of OL 5.x
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Grab libstdc++-4.3.0-8.i386.rpm from the fedora archives
http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/9/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/libstdc++-4.3.0-8.i386.rpm
Extract out the libraries with the following command
rpm2cpio libstdc++-4.3.0-8.i386.rpm | cpio -i --make-directories
In the directory where you ran the rpm2cpio command, there will be a new
directory called /usr/lib that contains two files:
libstdc++.so.6
libstdc++.so.6.0.10
Copy these two files to /opt/firefox
6) Run /opt/firefox/firefox and enjoy your modern browser.
PS I'm working on a kiosk setup that uses the new Firefox 'sync'. Looks
promising that you can have the kiosk instance of the browser
automatically update and download all config, preferences, etc from one
central location. I'll write it up when I have more time.
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