Palemoon and Basilisk don't work on Ubuntu 25.04 Topic is solved

[Donieck69]

Operating system:AnduinOS based on Ubuntu 25.04
Browser version: Latest Pa;lemoon and Basilisk from tarball
32-bit or 64-bit browser?: GTK3+ 64 bit
Problem URL:Palemoon and don't start
Browser theme (if not default):
Installed add-ons:Any
Installed plugins: (about:plugins):

I installed both browser from tarball


If possible, please include the output of help->troubleshooting information (as text):

**PASTE troubleshooting information here**

[andyprough]

AnduinOS is not Ubuntu. It is based on Ubuntu, but there are big differences, including differences in the way that you would install software packages. You'll be best advised to talk to people on the AnduinOS forum about difficulty installing various packages.

[fatboy]

Operating system:AnduinOS based on Ubuntu 25.04
Browser version: Latest Pa;lemoon and Basilisk from tarball
32-bit or 64-bit browser?: GTK3+ 64 bit
Problem URL:Palemoon and don't start
Browser theme (if not default):
Installed add-ons:Any
Installed plugins: (about:plugins):

I installed both browser from tarball

Execute the browsers from a terminal, look at the output there. What does it say?

[Donieck69]

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daniel@daniel-ThinkPad-T450s:~$ palemoon
XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /home/daniel/palemoon/libxul.so:
libdbus-glib-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Couldn't load XPCOM.

This I give from terminal

[vannilla]

You need to install missing packages.
It's better if you ask the AnduinOS community for help, since it's outside the browser's power.

[Moonchild]

libdbus is necessary for the browsers to properly integrate with the desktop on Linux (e.g. opening a new tab f it is already running and launching another instance from an external link).
If for some reason you can't install dbus on your system you could compile from source without dbus, but that will have some drawbacks for operation.

[Kruppt]

I think your getting that error because xulrunner package is not installed.

From a terminal run:
sudo apt-get update
After that completes
Run in terminal:
sudo apt-cache search xulrunner
Take note of the output and run from terminal:
sudo apt-get install xulrunner-29
if that is the version available for your distro.
You can install packages with Synaptic or Aptitude also if available.

[fatboy]

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daniel@daniel-ThinkPad-T450s:~$ palemoon
XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /home/daniel/palemoon/libxul.so:
libdbus-glib-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Couldn't load XPCOM.

This I give from terminal

It looks like you installed from the repo?
I find it easier to run palemoon from an extracted zip file, then all your dependencies are there

[mmouse]

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daniel@daniel-ThinkPad-T450s:~$ palemoon
XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /home/daniel/palemoon/libxul.so:
libdbus-glib-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Couldn't load XPCOM.

This I give from terminal

yes libdbus is not included in base install in recent Ubuntu.
I think that running

sudo apt install libdbus-glib-1-2

should fix it.