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Running firefox 3.1 under 64-bit ubuntu

Posted in linux, ubuntu by Drew Perttula on the 2008-10-19T01:53:10+00:00

If you get firefox 3.1 and try to run it on a 64-bit ubuntu hardy install, you'll probably get this failure:

./firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libdbus-glib-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Install 'ia32-libs' with "sudo aptitude install ia32-libs" (or use the synaptic GUI)
Go get the i386 version of libdbus-glib and save the .deb file somewhere.
Run "file-roller /tmp/libdbus-glib-1-2_0.74-2_i386.deb".
Go into data.tar.gz -> . -> usr -> lib, and copy libdbus-glib-1.so.2.1.0 to /usr/lib32 (or right to your firefox 3.1 directory, if you want to avoid writing to /usr).
Run 'sudo ldconfig' to make the libdbus-glib-1.so symlink

Now you should be able to test firefox 3.1 and play some of the videos from here. The one called 'video embedded in svg' is impressive, although on my system I only got one video at a time and the audio sync drifted. See this screencast (or youtube) for what it should look like.

2009-09-02 Updated with comments from Krellan

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