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unable to run palemoon on centos 6

Posted: 2018-07-08, 16:59
by jalalmadini
Hello

i have a centos vps and i have installed xrdp to be able to connect to it via remote desktop , it works fine and i tried to install Pale moon (currently using firefox) , i have used the pminstaller tool.

the instalation was "successful" and i got palemoon in my internet tab under applications , but when i try to run it , get a tab for palemoon in the botton bar saying
Starting Pale Moon W.... but it disappears after 15 seconds and palemoon never starts

i have tried to remove it and re-install it and noticed that it gives me some erors at the end of instalation :

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which: no palemoon in (/tmp/pminstaller.lPcfpZ/bin/x86_64:/tmp/pminstaller.lPcfpZ/tools:/tmp/pminstaller.lPcfpZ/bin/x86_64:/tmp/pminstaller.lPcfpZ/tools:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin)
gtk-update-icon-cache: Cache file created successfully.
which: no update-alternatives in (/tmp/pminstaller.lPcfpZ/bin/x86_64:/tmp/pminstaller.lPcfpZ/tools:/tmp/pminstaller.lPcfpZ/bin/x86_64:/tmp/pminstaller.lPcfpZ/tools:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin)
ls: cannot access /usr/share/hunspell: No such file or directory
any idea what is the issue here ?

cheers

Re: unable to run palemoon on centos 6

Posted: 2018-07-08, 20:55
by therube
I gather you're getting PM through your distro?
(And suspect they're packaging incorrectly.)

The the download from, http://linux.palemoon.org/.

Re: unable to run palemoon on centos 6

Posted: 2018-07-08, 21:20
by Moonchild
therube wrote:I gather you're getting PM through your distro?
(And suspect they're packaging incorrectly.)
No, they are using the pminstaller script supplied by us.
Unfortunately I can't help since Linux isn't my forte and I know very little about the installer -- but alternatively to the installer you can always just download the tarball and unpack it to a writable directory of your choice, and run ./palemoon from there.

Re: unable to run palemoon on centos 6

Posted: 2018-07-09, 17:53
by tooshorttoolong
Centos is using very old libraries (even older than Debian I believe) so it may be the issue. Try running palemoon from a terminal and see if you get an error message.

Alternatively try running:

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ldd $(which palemoon)
and see if it says some libs are missing.