{"id":243,"date":"2010-04-20T14:31:24","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T13:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/wp\/2010\/04\/20\/installing-the-flock-browser-on-fedora-12-64-bit\/"},"modified":"2010-04-20T14:31:24","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T13:31:24","slug":"installing-the-flock-browser-on-fedora-12-64-bit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/2010\/04\/installing-the-flock-browser-on-fedora-12-64-bit\/","title":{"rendered":"Installing the flock browser on Fedora 12 64-bit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished installing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flock.com\/\">Flock<\/a> on my desktop, but ran into a few issues. Nothing obvious that I could find that explained the dependency problems, so now that I&#8217;ve sorted them:<\/p>\n<p>Flock only provides 32-bit (i686) binaries so if you&#8217;re running 64-bit (x86_64) Fedora Linux, you probably don&#8217;t have the right dependencies.<\/p>\n<p>First step, download the archive file from <a href=\"http:\/\/flock.com\/versions\">flock.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then, uncompress it. I choose to do this straight to \/usr\/local<\/p>\n<p><code>sudo tar -C \/usr\/local -xf \/path\/to\/flock-*.linux-i686.tar.bz2<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Create a symlink in \/usr\/local\/bin so it is in your path:<\/p>\n<p><code>sudo ln -s \/usr\/local\/flock\/flock-browser \/usr\/local\/bin<\/code><\/p>\n<p>If you run <code>flock-browser<\/code> now, you&#8217;ll get an error:<\/p>\n<p><code>error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory<\/code><\/p>\n<p>If you satisfy this, you&#8217;ll get some more, so here are the packages you need to install with yum (which will pull down lots more). Don&#8217;t try to satisfy them yourself, it will only cause you pain. Just use yum.<\/p>\n<p><code>sudo yum install gtk2.i686 libXt.i686 PackageKit-gtk-module.i686 libcanberra-gtk2.i686<\/code><\/p>\n<p>You might still get some errors about a gtk theme, but I ignored them as they appear to be fairly harmless (at least I don&#8217;t care about them):<\/p>\n<p><code>(flock-bin:19147): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: \"clearlooks\",<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished installing Flock on my desktop, but ran into a few issues. Nothing obvious that I could find that explained the dependency problems, so now that I&#8217;ve sorted them: Flock only provides 32-bit (i686) binaries so if you&#8217;re running 64-bit (x86_64) Fedora Linux, you probably don&#8217;t have the right dependencies. First step, download\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/2010\/04\/installing-the-flock-browser-on-fedora-12-64-bit\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[22,36,53,63,64,149],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","tag-64-bit","tag-browser","tag-dependencies","tag-fedora","tag-flock","tag-x86_64"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9qMPF-3V","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}