This shouldn't be necessary, but it is for now on most install, if it is not done gmusicbrowser will crash (segmentation fault) as soon as it tries to display a mozembed widget. Add “/usr/lib/firefox” to the library path, either everytime by doing “export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/firefox”, or only once by adding the path to /etc/ld.so.conf and running ldconfig (needs root/sudo)

Under Debian, you usually use Iceweasel instead of Firefox ; you have to add /usr/lib/iceweasel in the /etc/ld.so.conf :

include /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf
/usr/lib/iceweasel

Running ldconfig produces an error on my installation :

debian:/home/bbrice# ldconfig 
ldconfig: Erreur de la procédure mmap du fichier /usr/lib/iceweasel/libsoftokn3.so

But it doesn't seem to be important in the use of the MozEmbed plugin.

the perl-Gtk2-MozEmbed-0.80.0-3mdv2010.0 package works simply with the Important instructions above.

There is now a libgtk2-mozembed-perl package for debian and for ubuntu

Old informations on the packages you need if you want to compile it from source

Remi made a package on this page

These instructions will install the gtkmozembed perl bindings in a sandbox, that way, you don't need root permissions and can't break your system.

1. mkdir ~/sandbox
2. Download and untar Gtk2-MozEmbed-0.06.tar.gz from sourceforge
3. cd Gtk2-MozEmbed-0.06
4. perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=~/sandbox && make && make install

And PERL5LIB must be set when gmusicbrowser is launched, so that it can find the installed Gtk2::MozEmbed. It can be done either :

- by adding “export PERL5LIB=~/sandbox/lib/perl/:$PERL5LIB” in your ~/.bashrc
- or by running gmusicbrowser through a small shell script :

  #!/bin/sh
  export PERL5LIB=~/sandbox/lib/perl/:$PERL5LIB
  exec gmusicbrowser

save this script, for example in ~/gmusicbrowser.sh, make it executable :

chmod +x gmusicbrowser.sh

and change the command in the launcher's properties with : ~/gmusicbrowser.sh

On Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, I had to specify more the path for perl libraries, by using

export PERL5LIB=~/sandbox/lib/perl/5.8.8/:$PERL5LIB

instead of

export PERL5LIB=~/sandbox/lib/perl/:$PERL5LIB

Then follow the Important instructions above

You can test everything works by running “perl examples/pumpzilla”