Re: Silly Q: how does one install it?

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

First of all we need to define what "install" means :)  You can just
extract it in a directory and create a symbolic link to the icecat
script in /usr/bin, that can be considered "install" IceCat.

Simply use the icecat script is the right way to execute it.  From the
error messages it seems that your friend is missing some libraries.
Please refer to the distro documentation to find which packages you need
to install for these files, or at least specify the distro you friend is
using, maybe somebody here already solved this problem and can help you.

Giuseppe

Ciaran O'Riordan wrote:
> Ah, I'm asking this on behalf of a non-tech friend.  yeh.
> 
> When my friend (who uses "ciaran" as his user name) downloaded
> icecat-3.0.3-g1 and untarred it, he couldn't find any hints about how to
> actually install it.  The README.txt didn't help either.  Can someone point
> him in the right direction?  Thanks.
> 
> address@hidden:~/software/icecat-3.0.3-g1$ ls
> application.ini           greprefs        libnss3.so       libsoftokn3.so     
>      plugins
> blocklist.xml             icecat          libnssckbi.so    libsqlite3.so      
>      README.txt
> browserconfig.properties  icecat-bin      libnssdbm3.so    libssl3.so         
>      removed-files
> chrome                    libfreebl3.chk  libnssutil3.so   libxpcom_core.so   
>      res
> components                libfreebl3.so   libplc4.so       libxpcom.so        
>      run-icecat.sh
> defaults                  libjemalloc.so  libplds4.so      modules            
>      searchplugins
> dictionaries              libmozjs.so     libsmime3.so     
> mozilla-xremote-client  updates
> extensions                libnspr4.so     libsoftokn3.chk  platform.ini
> address@hidden:~/software/icecat-3.0.3-g1$ ./icecat
> ./icecat-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libxcb-xlib.so.0: cannot 
> open shared object file: No such file or directory
> address@hidden:~/software/icecat-3.0.3-g1$ ./run-icecat.sh 
> ./icecat-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libxcb-xlib.so.0: cannot 
> open shared object file: No such file or directory
> address@hidden:~/software/icecat-3.0.3-g1$ ./icecat-bin 
> ./icecat-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libjemalloc.so: cannot 
> open shared object file: No such file or directory
> address@hidden:~/software/icecat-3.0.3-g1$
>