[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Ubuntu 8.04 installation instructions posted

[Bill Erickson]

On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:22:17 -0400, Bill Erickson  
<erickson at esilibrary.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:20:29 -0400, Bill Erickson  
> <erickson at esilibrary.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:42:58 -0400, Dan Scott <denials at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>   * The staff client will not run natively on Ubuntu 8.04. As has been
>>> mentioned elsewhere, you will either have to run the Windows staff
>>> client on a Windows workstation, or use Wine to install and run the
>>> Windows staff client on Ubuntu 8.04.
>>
>> Another option is to fetch an older version of Xulrunner for Linux.
>>
>> http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/xulrunner/releases/1.8.1.3/contrib/linux-i686/xulrunner-1.8.1.3.en-US.linux-i686.tar.gz
>
> I meant to add...
>
> You don't have to compile/install this package.  Simply untar it and  
> there will be a xulrunner binary in the extracted directory.


... but you may need to 'apt-get install libstdc++5', which is a  
dependency of xulrunner-1.8.1.3.  Thanks, wlayton!

-b


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