TriNetre - Archive for December 15, 2004

(no longer updated)

To make use of the DVI feature of my machine/flatscreen monitor, I decided to upgrade to 6.8.1 of X and hence to Fedora Core 3 for my AMD64 machine. I burnt the 4 CDs and performed a upgrade. Things went very smoothly indeed. All the components were installed cleanly.

Trouble surfaced when I tried to install Enigmail for the Thunderbird 0.9 (distributed with FC3). It seemed that whatever I did, I just couldn't remove the "Enigmime Service not available " error message.

The last time I had the trouble, I had to resort to running the tar distribution in my local directory. So uninstalling Thunderbird RPM, I downloaded and untarred the Thunderbird distribution file for Linux. From there, when I tried to run the Thunderbird binary, I got the following error "error while loading shared libraries: libXp.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory". The solution was to install the RPM xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-6.8.1-21.i386.rpm. It looks like the default install only installed the x86-84 RPM, which was not enough. Installing the i386 version along with the 64 version worked and Thunderbird started fine. Enigmail installed fine on this installation.

I had a similar problem with Firefox. The optimised build and the generic build from the Firefox website refused to run with the error "error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory". To get around this I had to install the compat-libstdc++-8-3.3.4.2 RPM. This time the i386 version was installed by default and I had to install the x86-64 version.

Now to play with my shiny new FC3 and maybe get DVI to work. First try- no luck :)