Firefox 3 on RHEL4

[Special K]

I am a relative linux n00b and am trying to use the latest version of Firefox on RHEL4 - CentOS release 4.4. I downloaded the file and extracted it, but when I tried to run firefox, I received the following error message:

./firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libpangocairo-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

After doing a google search, I was led to this page:

link

However, I now have absolutely no idea what to do next. I take it I need to install this library, but from looking around on the page, it doesn't sound like this is a simple "download the .exe and click install" type procedure.

Can anyone help me please?

 

[MrChad]

Try "yum install pango"

 

[Special K]

Originally posted by: MrChad
Try "yum install pango"

It said:

There was a problem importing one of the Python modules
required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was:

No module named yum

Please install a package which provides this module, or
verify that the module is installed correctly.

It's possible that the above module doesn't match the
current version of Python, which is:
2.3.4 (#1, Mar 13 2006, 07:49:07)
[GCC 3.4.4 20050721 (Red Hat 3.4.4-2)]

If you cannot solve this problem yourself, please go to
the yum faq at:
http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumFaq

 

[freegeeks]

install yum

 

[Brazen]

So are you using RHEL or CentOS? CentOS should already have yum, but it looks like it's borked. Did you upgrade your python without sticking to the yum repositories? Why don't you just upgrade to CentOS 5, which includes firefox 3?

 

[Special K]

Originally posted by: Brazen
So are you using RHEL or CentOS? CentOS should already have yum, but it looks like it's borked. Did you upgrade your python without sticking to the yum repositories? Why don't you just upgrade to CentOS 5, which includes firefox 3?

I'm not sure about the version - when I do "cat /etc/redhat-release", it says CentOS release 4.4 (Final), but when I spoke to someone in IT, they said we had RHEL4.

This is a work machine and the only permissions I have is whatever I can accomplish by using sudo, so upgrading the OS isn't an option for me. Our IT dept. said they don't have time to deploy FF3 right now, but that we were free to try to get it working on our own. From what I understand, it's a very difficult task.