Trouble Installing Firefox 0.9.1 in SUSE 9.1 Pro

From: Art Vandelay (artvandelay27_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/29/04 

Date: 29 Jul 2004 11:41:32 -0700

Hello,
I am very new to linux and I have just started running suse 9.1
professional. I have had no trouble installing firefox 0.8 with the
YaST tool, but when I tried to install firefox 0.9.1 I have been
unsuccessful. I download the .rpm version of firefox 0.9.1 for SUSE
from

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/mozilla/firefox/0.9.2/

and then right clicked on it and selected Actions > Install with Yast,
but each time I do this, SUSE attempts to install the 0.8 version. I
then tried to install firefox from the konsole by doing the following:
1. Downloading the GTK2 + XFT installer to /usr/local
2. cd /usr/local
3. tar -xzvf filename.tar.gz
4. cd firefox-intsaller
5. ./firefox-installer

I get the following message:
(firefox-installer-bin:19673): Gtk-WARNING **:
/opt/gnome/lib64/gtk-2.0/2.2.0/engine/libqtpixmap.so: cannot open
shared object file: No such file or directory

The message is repeated many times. After this, firefox appears, but
with all of the warning messages I'm not sure that it is installed
properly. I have looked in the specified directory and the
libqtpixmap.so file appears to be there.

One problem may be that I installed SUSE from a separate partition on
my hard dirve, but I'm not sure if that has anything to do with it. I
feel like I'm missing something obvious here that anyone with SUSE
experience might be able to help me with.

Thank you,
Art

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