Peter Evanoff’s Weblog

We Peters have a functioning Linux script/setup that allows us to run Universal Firefox from our stick, but not without some wrinkles.  We anticipated a few more problems with the Linux v0.2 release than with the XP 0.1,  if only for the fact the once the script was working for XP, our job there was complete.  On Linux, we encountered a problem with some shared libraries, in particular libstdc++5, which the Firefox binary from Mozilla depends on.   When we tried to run Firefox, we were getting dependency errors for the library, which stopped us in our tracks.   Doing an apt-get or yum solved the problem, but this wasn’t an optimum solution.  As a quick fix, we added the library to our stick and Firefox is working well.  We still have to investigate the root cause,  and as Chris Tyler suggested, maybe set up a path that will search our stick as a last resort.  Our goal remains to have a “Grandma” implementation ( in my family it would be a Grandpa , since Grandma was a wizard with new electronic gadgets) which is to say that  you can just plug it in  and it works without fuss.  I will  stop now and leave it to the other Peter to fill in the rest of the details.