Running Pale Moon 27 on Ubuntu 12.04 Precise

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cowlitzron

Running Pale Moon 27 on Ubuntu 12.04 Precise

Unread post by cowlitzron » 2016-12-22, 08:14

Only the i686 32 bit version of Pale Moon 27 will run on Ubuntu 12.04 Precise. If, you're running U 12.04 64 bit, you will need to install some i386 libraries to get PM 27 to run. I installed libdbus-glib-1-2:i386, and libgtk2.0-0:i386 which brought in other needed i386 libraries. I followed the instructions to do a manual install of the PM 27 for Linux. It's working well for me so far on my Ubuntu 12.04 precise 64 bit install on a USB hard drive. You might get similar results on Debian 7, CentOS 6, and Slackware 14.0. Linux Mint 13 maya has the same base as Ubuntu 12.04.

Andrew Gilbertson

Re: Running Pale Moon 27 on Ubuntu 12.04 Precise

Unread post by Andrew Gilbertson » 2016-12-24, 02:26

If you're going to be running a lot of 32-bit software on 64-bit Ubuntu (and derivatives), you can install the "ia32-libs" package - the description is "Meta-package which depends on all common 32bit libs" so it should all the needed libraries for the majority of 32-bit-only programs. (Of course there are going to be some oddball ones out there, but this should at least ease the pain.)

cowlitzron

Re: Running Pale Moon 27 on Ubuntu 12.04 Precise

Unread post by cowlitzron » 2017-02-19, 04:08

I was able to get PM 27.1 32 bit to work on Debian Wheezy 64, after installing ia32-libs-i386, libdbus-glib-1-2:i386, and libgtk2.0-0:i386 .

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