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Intro

The latest Firefox 4 Beta (rc2) requires GCC 4.x and a libstdc++ to match. Unfortunately, Redhat EL5 and CentOS 5 / CentOS 5.5 do not meet this requirement, no matter how many packages you update. But, luckily for us our friend rkl found a solution and posted it on mozillazine. Much to our dismay, the mozilla developers have decided to stop supporting these old of libraries in bug 621704.

Downloads

• Firefox 4 Binary Version
• libstdc++-4.3.0-8.i386.rpm

Installing

1. Unpackage Firefox

   tar xvfj firefox-4.0rc2.tar.bz2
   mv firefox firefox-4.0rc2

2. Unpackage RPM and copy library file into firefox directory

   mkdir tmp
   cd tmp
   rpm2cpio ../libstdc++-4.3.0-8.i386.rpm | cpio -i --make-directories
   cp usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.10 ../firefox-4.0rc2/libstdc++.so.6

Running

Firefox should run just fine now :

firefox-4.0rc2/firefox &