[ale] Firebird and libxpistub.so

[jknapka at kneuro.net (Joe Knapka)]

Hi folks,

I tried to install Firebird today, on my stock Fedora Core 1
laptop. During the install proper (after I've answered the questions
about what and where to install, and it's copying files around),
firebird-installer complains that "Error -618: cannot open xpistub
library" and then dies.  I've found some alleged solutions to this (eg
copy libxpistub.so to /; make sure an older Mozilla is running when
running firebird-installer; add the directory containing libxpistub.so
to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH env var) but none of them worked for me. I do
have a couple of copies of libxpistub.so on my machine (one from the
original Mozilla 1.0.1 in FC1, and one from the Mozilla 1.7.2 I
installed this morning, in the course of trying to resolve this
issue), but firebird-installer refuses to notice them.  Does anyone
have a definitive answer to this problem?

Thanks,

-- Joe

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