Firefox will not launch

Don Lazov

Don Lazov

I just installed FreeBSD, and also setup and configured xorg, xfce, slim and ran:

pkg install firefox

But when I try to launch Firefox off the menu or the panel nothing happens, when I try to launch it from a terminal I see the following error:

Code: 
dlazov@zovs-freebsd$ firefox
XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/local/lib/firefox/libxul.so:
Shared object "libicui18n.so.58" not found, required by "libxul.so"
Couldn't load XPCOM.

How can I correct this? What more needs to be installed to use Firefox web browser?
 
Code: 
dlazov@zovs-freebsd$ firefox
XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/local/lib/firefox/libxul.so:
Shared object "libicui18n.so.58" not found, required by "libxul.so"
Couldn't load XPCOM.
libicui18n.so.58 is missing, so you need to install devel/icu.
 
Okay I tried to install that, got a Error code 1, looks like icu-58.2,1 is already installed.

Tried to do sudo pkg install icu and it says "The most recent version of packages are already installed"

So trying to run firefox in the terminal displays a new message:

Code: 
dlazov@zovs-freebsd$ firefox
XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/local/lib/firefox/libxul.so:
Shared object "libevent-2.0.so.5" not found, required by "libxul.so"
Couldn't load XPCOM.

So that only got me past the one missing library. Not sure what libevent is tied to?
 
Well what is interesting is that I ran:

Code: 
pkg version -l "<"
portmaster -L
portmaster -af
pkg update

And it said to reboot, so I did and now Firefox works just fine.
 
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