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Sindi writes

> So does Slackware 11.  I downloaded the SuSE rpm for Skipstone and used 
> rpm2targz to convert to a tar.gz and then renamed to tgz and installpkg 
> and when I tried to run skipstone it was looking in /opt/ for mozilla and 
> its libraries so I typed export on two lines pointing it at the firefox 
> location (based on what I found in /usr/local/bin/skipstone script) and 
> then it still could not find a library libglitz.so.1 which is apparently 
> not needed by Firefox 1.5.

I don't have my BL machine up and running ATM but that libglitz.so.1 looks
familiar. It might be one of the libs that is actually included in the Firefox
package. Really, I know not a thing about skipstone. 

> cd /usr/local/bin
> ldd skipstone-bin
> It also needs libxpcom but adding /firefox* to the path supplied the rest 
> of the dependencies.
> 
> Do we need the full Mozilla or a later firefox to get these libraries?

At a guess, Id say all the libs needed are in SW9.0 or the package that
Steven has described. Whats really needed is to organise things so
Firefox can be installed in much the same way that one does with Opera,
using the pkg command. Having to use all these complicated proceedures
of yours, sounds very confusing and demoralising. 

Ian.