Linux Software Requirements Please note that Linux distributors may provide packages for your distribution which have different requirements.
Linux kernel - 2.2.14 or higher with the following libraries or packages: glibc 2.3.2 or higher XFree86-3.3.6 or higher gtk+2.0 or higher fontconfig (also known as xft) libstdc++5 Firefox has been tested on Red Hat Linux 8.0 and later Minimum Hardware Intel Pentium II or AMD K6-III+ 233 MHz CPU (Recommended: 500MHz or greater) 64 MB RAM (Recommended: 128 MB RAM or greater) 52 MB hard drive space
Does your linux box complete to these requirements?
I did not encounter this problem as I try to run up to date version of linux, version 8 is old, but I guess you have you reason's for running such an old version !
Have a look at the last entry on this link the author there clains this did the trick for him
I was having the same problem with firefox in Ubuntu.
I just tried installing as root.
I had no problems at all.
The only thing is I'm not sure where it installed as I still have the previous version working from the world link.
The location of that library is obviously in a directory with only root permissions (I'm surprised Ubuntu allows everyone to install things anyway as this is very un-unix).
