Galeon

rezza · 2006-02-12 15:44:45

It seems Galeon has disappeared from the repos... any explanation of why? I assume it's something to do with the move to xulrunner, because building galeon from source now fails with the error "configure: error: No gecko found". I really like galeon and don't want to see it disappear from arch, is there any way around this?

Oh, and even though my old galeon is still installed, when i try to run it I get an error about a missing libgtkembedmoz.so. I'll try playing around with it and fudging my current install of galeon into working, but I'd prefer a real solution if possible. Else is it possible for me to go back to the old mozilla-firefox and just say screw this new xulrunner?

Any help or advice would be much appreciated.

rezza · 2006-02-12 16:07:49

OK, I managed to fudge galeon into starting by symlinking all the libraries it complains about from /opt/mozilla/lib/firefox-1.5.0.1/ into /usr/lib/. It now stops complaining in the terminal, and instead now pops up the following dialog window:

I have tried setting this to /opt/mozilla but to no avail. Am I stuck without my galeon on arch any more?

This is the first real package problem I've ever had with arch... everything has always either worked fine from the repos, or worked fine with a manual install.

Moparx · 2006-02-12 16:25:28

I just noticed this myself.. I would also prefer to have it readded to the repo.

Epiphany is a pile of crap in comparison :

JGC · 2006-02-12 16:54:08

Symlinking all those libraries to /usr/lib is the worst thing you can do. To get galeon running again, use

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/mozilla/lib/firefox:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH galeon

As alternative, you could rename the galeon binary to galeon-bin and make a shellscript wrapper with this in it:

#!/bin/bash
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/mozilla/lib/firefox:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
exec galeon-bin $@

This should get galeon going with firefox 1.5.0.1-2.

The reason why I removed galeon from repositories is because their development team has done no efforts to get it running with XULRunner. Since building embedding stuff against firefox is no longer supported since 1.5.0.1-2, I removed it from the repositories, until either the developers or someone else has ported galeon to XULRunner.

rezza · 2006-02-12 17:13:30

OK thanks JGC, this'll do for now.

Moparx · 2006-02-27 03:06:03

Galeon is compatible with XULRunner now
http://galeon.sourceforge.net/Main/GaleonRelease201

codemac · 2006-02-27 06:02:36

How come firefox and mozilla DON'T have deps of xulrunner? Maybe I don't fully understand it.. are they just built against xulrunner, and don't need xulrunner?

Just checked... they don't have xulrunner as a makedepend either... so what's this all about? I understand that xulrunner is nice... but it doesn't see to have much of anything to do with the firefox package in current.

JGC · 2006-02-27 08:25:39

Xulrunner won't be a dependency for firefox until firefox 2 or 2.1. XULRunner is the reference API/ABI stable gecko implementation from mozilla.org and is much more suitable to build embedding applications against.

codemac · 2006-02-27 20:26:24

Ahhhh, there we go. Thank you JGC.

Moparx · 2006-02-27 21:08:01

Here's to hoping for Galeons quick re-inclusion into the repos

Arch Linux

#1 2006-02-12 15:44:45

Galeon

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Re: Galeon

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Re: Galeon

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Re: Galeon

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Re: Galeon

#6 2006-02-27 03:06:03

Re: Galeon

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Re: Galeon

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Re: Galeon

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Re: Galeon

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