[RESOLVED] PM not running on Devuan Freia

[ron_1]

Operating system: Devuan 7 Freia
Browser version: 34.1.0 SSE2 GTK2
32-bit or 64-bit browser?: 64-bit

Trying out Pale Moon on Devuan testing Freia. Extracted the palemoon folder to Templates as I always have done, but it won't launch. Tried starting from terminal and this is what I got:

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ron@devuan-asus:~$ /home/ron/Templates/palemoon/palemoon
XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /home/ron/Templates/palemoon/libxul.so:
libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Couldn't load XPCOM.

EDIT
Just tried the GTK3 version and it runs. I suppose Debian 14 no longer runs gtk2 apps? What else could it be?

[ron_1]

So yeah, Debian 14 is dropping support for gtk2. The times they are a changin'.

[andyprough]

Debian Testing (forky) still has GTK2 right now from what I can see, so maybe Devuan Freia has jumped the gun and removed GTK2 support ahead of time? It seems like an odd decision, but maybe so. Did you try:

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sudo apt install libgtk2.0-0t64 libgtk2.0-bin libgtk2.0-common

to see if GTK2 was available and just was not installed yet?

When Debian does drop the GTK2 packages, probably sometime in the next year, I have come up with a method to retain GTK2 by adding a prior Debian snapshot as a repository and only allowing apt to install the GTK2 packages from that repo. It will be a simple fix, and probably can be applied to Devuan as well, since the Debian GTK2 packages shouldn't be touching any of the Devuan-specific things like init.

[ron_1]

Debian Testing (forky) still has GTK2 right now from what I can see, so maybe Devuan Freia has jumped the gun and removed GTK2 support ahead of time? It seems like an odd decision, but maybe so.

I would really doubt that, as Devuan doesn't exactly have a whole lot of developers. But anything's possible.

So I had Devuan Freia on my main computer but took it off. Too many things not quite ready yet (of course since it's the testing branch). Went back to Excalibur, but still have Freia on a spare computer to play around with. One good thing I learned is how to do a net install. Not hard at all.