I just installed Firefox 3 and I keep getting this error.
Any suggestions?
We’re sorry, this application requires a version of the GTK+ library that is not installed on your computer.
You have GTK+ 2.8.
This application requires GTK+ 2.10 or newer.
Please upgrade your GTK+ library if you wish to use this application.
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Firefox doesn’t have this error, it has this dependency. I am in the
same boat on SLED 10 SP2 currently. either you will need to upgrade
from .8 to .10 gtk2 or you will need to try a later version of opensuse
entirely. I haven’t bothered to research the gtk update because this is
my do-everything-box and I can’t risk it right now. opensuse 11
(released tomorrow) will work with Firefox 3, though.
Good luck.
kevjin wrote:
| I just installed Firefox 3 and I keep getting this error.
| Any suggestions?
|
| We’re sorry, this application requires a version of the GTK+ library
| that is not installed on your computer.
|
| You have GTK+ 2.8.
| This application requires GTK+ 2.10 or newer.
|
| Please upgrade your GTK+ library if you wish to use this application.
|
|
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Thanks.
I tried the GTK upgrades but that just caused too many other dependancy issues.
Since I would have to upgrade the entire OS I decided to drop back to FireFox 2 since I am away from home right now.
I hope that FF3 can ease off on the strict dependecies.
FF3 looks good but I guess I will have to wait until upgrade my OS…why do I suddenly have flashbacks of that other O$ with all those issues.
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Firefox now uses GTK for theme support, hence the depends hell because GTK has tons of them. No clue why the Opensuse guys backported Firefox 3 to you guys, yea it’s 100% better than 2.0, but 2.0 is still stable and will have support for another year. Anyways I suggest if you can update to 11 at some time. Once you get everything set back up you would regret it.
One workaround is to install local copies of the required libraries. You can find detailed instructions on how to do this here:
Firefox 3, GTK and a downside of Enterprise Linux distros., 17/06/08, Mike’s blag
Ferdinand
I’m not sure what you mean by backported. Any recent OpenSUSE distro will have the required gtk2 libraries. There’s no backporting for a recent distro version like 10.3 or 11.0. I think even 10.2 will work if you apply the latest security updates. Alas 10.0 doesn’t but I’m going to upgrade that machine’s OS anyway.