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> Joe Knapka wrote:
> 
> >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?
> >
> I assume you're installing as root?

I tried both as root and as myself (into ~/firebird), with identical
results.

> If so, how are you installing? Is
> this an RPM, a firefox installer or the tarred and zipped package?

The only Firebird package I could find on mozilla.org is a tar.gz
containing a script "firebird-installer" (as well as some other
stuff).  I run "./firebird-installer" from the untarred directory,
and get the -618 error.

> I
> always just use the tarred and zipped package and put it in
> /usr/local/firefox.

Where might I find that package?

Thanks,

-- Joe

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