Installing FireFox v.50 on EC2 linux, missing libgtk-3

[Cullen Philippson]

I've followed your instructions on:
https://lambda-linux.io/blog/2015/01/28/announcing-firefox-browser-support-for-amazon-linux/

Where I ran into issue was that the latest stable FF v. 50.x relies on libgtk v3 and that is not provided in the epll repo.

# ./firefox
XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/lib64/firefox/libmozgtk.so:
libgtk-3.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Couldn't load XPCOM.

Is there a work around?

Thank you,

Cullen

[Rajiv Ranganath]

Hi Cullen,

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 6:58 AM, Cullen Philippson
<cullen.p...@gmail.com> wrote:

[...]

> Where I ran into issue was that the latest stable FF v. 50.x relies on
> libgtk v3 and that is not provided in the epll repo.
>
> # ./firefox
> XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/lib64/firefox/libmozgtk.so:
> libgtk-3.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> directory
> Couldn't load XPCOM.
>
> Is there a work around?

At this time, we do not plan to introduce Gtk v3 into EPLL repository.

If you would like to use Firefox build that uses Gtk v3, the only
workaround might be to compile Gtk yourself.

Thank you for using EPLL packages.

Best,
Rajiv

[Cullen Philippson]

Hi Rajiv,

I was able to install firefox-45.6.0esr that uses libgtk2.

Thank you,

Cullen