Error while installing firefox

From: Mike Rappe (mrappe_at_houston.rr.com)
Date: 12/16/04 

Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 19:31:39 GMT

I am trying to install Firefox on my Linux PC.I have

Red Hat Linux release 8.0 (Psyche)

Kernel 2.4.18-14bigmem on an i686

Installed with 128 M Ram and pleny of disk space.

These are the listed requirements for Firefox

I downloaded the Firefox installer for Linux. When running the installer
I got an error message while the installer reached this point:
Extracting libplc4.so...
Then I got an alert box that said this :
Fatal Error [-618]: Couldn't open xpistub library
The terminal session from which I launched the installer had this error:

[root@localhost firefox-installer]# bash firefox-installer

** (firefox-installer-bin:4208): WARNING **: Invalid UTF8 string passed
to pango
_layout_set_text()

** (firefox-installer-bin:4208): WARNING **: Invalid UTF8 string passed
to pango
_layout_set_text()

** (firefox-installer-bin:4208): WARNING **: Invalid UTF8 string passed
to pango
_layout_set_text()

** (firefox-installer-bin:4208): WARNING **: Invalid UTF8 string passed
to pango
_layout_set_text()
DLError: /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0: version `GLIBC_2.3.2' not found
(required by
[root@localhost firefox-installer]# bash firefox-installer
DLError: /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0: version `GLIBC_2.3.2' not found
(required by ./libnspr4.so)^[[2~

Can anyone point me to what I need to do. I am not sure where
GLIBC_2.3.2 should be at or what version that I have or what it would
take to update if needed.

Thank You,

m rappe@houston.rr.com
(remove the space between m and r)

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