Linux / libxpistub.so, Error ~618 xpistub

[John Smith]

I am not sure I am in the correct newsgroup, but this problem seems to
stem from the XPInstall shared library. The Netscape/Mozilla installers
fail every time with "Fatal error [~618]: Couldn't open xpistub
library", this is not specific to my installation (libxpistub.so is in
my standard library path and is in ld.so.conf, and several posters have
similar messages w/o a response or fix - google of "~618 xpistub" turns
up bad installs from back in 2001); I am wondering if this is a result
of version mismatch of the shared library, my current installation is
Netscape 7.02 (Gecko/20030208). Also the installations fail on
Extration of libplc4.so (which is also in my std lib path). I cannot
find any options for turning on debug or verbose reporting. Any
thoughts/fixes/redirection would be appreciated. I have tried clean
install path using different options for install each time, I have even
extracted xpcom.xpi and manually installed the shared libraries. I have
used both -bin and -install binaries for the installation, both failing.

[BlankMan]

Howdy,
I figure'd out what went wrong, in file
mozilla/xpinstall/wizard/unix/src2/nsXIEngine.cpp:655
libpath is = to NULL ; this is a big problem, since it is searching the root
directory for libxpistub.so (exact line:
sprintf(libpath,"%s/%s",libpath,XPISTUB);. Short fix: cp libxpistub.so from std.
library location to root dir (if you have privledges) and remove it
afterwards. Perhaps I should submit a patch for this... Hope this helps
someone.

[seth]

finally figured out the problem. the file libxpistub.so is in the
/usr/lib/mozilla-1.2.1 folder. just copied that to /usr/lib and
worked fine

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[GabeK]