Comment 12 for bug 130218

I have this in 10.04 LTS, for gxine:

akelly@big-blue:~$ gxine
gxine: error while loading shared libraries: libmozjs.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

The fix in the posts above doesn't work because:

akelly@big-blue:~$ find /usr/lib -name "libmozjs*"
/usr/lib/firefox-3.6.3/libmozjs.so
/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2.3/libmozjs.so

Bizzarrely (to me) /usr/lib/firefox is a real directory, not a symlink to the current version. Hmm. So it seems I need to use a firefox-version-specific-fix for gxine. Which is rubbish, obviously.

So, here's a shellscript I use to launch gxine (I've called it gxine_hack.sh). Also attached.

Cheers, al.

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gxine_hack.sh 20100502
--

#! /bin/sh
# gxine_hack.sh by allankelly AT gmail DOT com
# 2010-05-02
# Under Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, gxine install fails to run due to dependency on
# Firefox library libmozjs.so. This library is installed under version-specific
# Firefox dir under /usr/lib. So, code below gets the highest numeric
# /usr/lib/firefox-* directory and appends it to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, then runs
# gxine. This should continue to work through Firefox upgrades.
for DIR in `ls -d /usr/lib/firefox-* | grep -v addons | sort -n`
do
    FF_LIB_DIR=$DIR
done
if [ -z $LD_LIBRARY_PATH ]
then
    export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/firefox && gxine
else
    export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/lib/firefox && gxine
fi