Some applications not working

Hey
I just got my aspire one and after installing most of the live updates, some programs from the acer site and installing openoffice 3 some applications just wont start. These applications arre:
Email
RSS Reader
Contacts
Calendar

These applications were working before I installed the updates etc. Can someone please help help me to get these applications working again? Is there anyway that I can reinstall these apps?
Thank You

 

What programs did you install from the Acer site?

If Firefox 3 is one of them I wonder if that program installation broke these. They rely on parts of Firefox 2 from what I have read elsewhere in this forum.

 

yes firefox 3 was one of them. Has anyone else experienced similar problems? Should I remove firefox 3 and go back to 2?
How would I do this?

EDIT: I just found a guide to installing firefox 3 another way using terminal and in it the person said that firefox 2 cant be removed because apps depend on it. Poor show for acer releasing firefox 3 on their website without telling us this.
How would I install firefox 2 again?

 

Not sure that ftp site has "official" patches/upgrades. It appears to be use at your own risk :?: . If you search the forum, you should be able to find how to install Firefox 2.

Update - try here:

http://jorge.ulver.no/2008/08/06/acer-a ... ngFirefox3

Guy

 

Am not sure it's FF3.... I installed FF3 yesterday, and ran my email client without any issues...until I start doing the live update....
Now any of the applications : email, contacts, calendar etc don't work anymore...

I tried launching the apps through terminal window : e.g. for email it's : AME -mail

then i got this error :

[user@localhost ~]$ AME -mail
/usr/acer/bin/AMEbin: error while loading shared libraries: libxpcom_core.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

not sure what this libxpcom_core.so file is... any ideas?

 

libxpcom_core.so on my system is in the directory /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.14. My AAO is fully updated, but I haven't switched to FF3.

Have you got that directory in your system?

 

hi david, i do have the ff 2.0.14 dir but only with the subdirs plugins and extras...no lib file there...wonder if ff3 removed that...
weird, cause i installed ff3 yesterday, and this morning my mail was still working.
i guess this libxpcom_core.so is a shared lib file accross apps?
tx

 

That library file is used by Firefox 2 and is needed by Acer Mail.

 

thnx grwkak, now, it's claiming it needs another shared library...

[user@localhost ~]$ AME -mail
/usr/acer/bin/AMEbin: error while loading shared libraries: libgtkembedmoz.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

am checking if all libs have been installed....if that doesn't work, i might want to reinstall linplus again

 

libgtkembedmoz.so is also in my Firefox 2.0.0.14 directory...

(An .so file in Linux is a bit like a Windows dll file - it's a library of shared objects which applications can use).

 

thnx...challenge now is to get all files from ff2.0.0.14 back into that directory...but, cant find an rpm with ff 2.0.0.14 to install again...

 

It's listed in add/remove programs (Pirut) on mine - but then it is installed on mine, so that doesn't guarantee it's available to install! Worth looking, though; using the search tab is quicker than trying to find it in the browse tab.