Palemoon and Basilisk browsers on AnduinOS

[Donieck]

Is any method for the install Palemoon and Basilisk browsers from tarball?

I have latest AnduinOS based on Ubuntu 25.04, but Palemoon and Basilisk don't work.

Any help?

[Donieck]

[Anduin2017]

What do you mean "doesn't work"? Does the installation finish successfully? What would happen if trying to start the app? Any error in the log?

[Donieck]

i use tarball [(https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?t=17393] and [(https://developer.palemoon.org/docs/linux-installation/)]
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[samwhelp]

Install Palemoon Browser

Link

According to the following two pages

• https://www.palemoon.org/download.shtml
• https://developer.palemoon.org/docs/linux-installation/

Install Script

A simple script to install palemoon

## ## ## Download palemoon-33.8.2.linux-x86_64-gtk3.tar.xz ## wget -c 'https://rm-us.palemoon.org/release/palemoon-33.8.2.linux-x86_64-gtk3.tar.xz' ## ## ## EXtract palemoon-33.8.2.linux-x86_64-gtk3.tar.xz to ~/.local/share/palemoon ## mkdir -p "${HOME}/.local/share" tar xf palemoon-33.8.2.linux-x86_64-gtk3.tar.xz -C "${HOME}/.local/share" ## ## ## Create /usr/bin/palemoon soft link to ~/.local/share/palemoon/palemoon ## sudo ln -sf "${HOME}/.local/share/palemoon/palemoon" "/usr/bin/palemoon" ## ## ## Create /usr/share/applications/palemoon.desktop ## cat << __EOF__ | sudo tee /usr/share/applications/palemoon.desktop [Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Name=Pale Moon Web Browser Comment=Browse the World Wide Web Keywords=Internet;WWW;Browser;Web;Explorer Exec=palemoon %u Terminal=false X-MultipleArgs=false Type=Application Icon=palemoon Categories=Network;WebBrowser;Internet MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/xml;application/rss+xml;application/rdf+xml;image/gif;image/jpeg;image/png;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;x-scheme-handler/ftp;x-scheme-handler/chrome;video/webm;application/x-xpinstall; StartupNotify=true __EOF__ 

[samwhelp]

Install Basilisk Browser

Link

According to the following two pages

• https://www.basilisk-browser.org/download.html
• https://developer.palemoon.org/docs/linux-installation/

Install Script

A simple script to install basilisk

## ## ## Download basilisk-20250703124711.linux-x86_64-gtk3.tar.xz ## wget -c 'https://dl.basilisk-browser.org/basilisk-20250703124711.linux-x86_64-gtk3.tar.xz' ## ## ## EXtract basilisk-20250703124711.linux-x86_64-gtk3.tar.xz to ~/.local/share/basilisk ## mkdir -p "${HOME}/.local/share" tar xf basilisk-20250703124711.linux-x86_64-gtk3.tar.xz -C "${HOME}/.local/share" ## ## ## Create /usr/bin/basilisk soft link to ~/.local/share/basilisk/basilisk ## sudo ln -sf "${HOME}/.local/share/basilisk/basilisk" "/usr/bin/basilisk" ## ## ## Create /usr/share/applications/basilisk.desktop ## cat << __EOF__ | sudo tee /usr/share/applications/basilisk.desktop [Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Name=Basilisk Web Browser Comment=Browse the World Wide Web Keywords=Internet;WWW;Browser;Web;Explorer Exec=basilisk %u Terminal=false X-MultipleArgs=false Type=Application Icon=basilisk Categories=Network;WebBrowser;Internet MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/xml;application/rss+xml;application/rdf+xml;image/gif;image/jpeg;image/png;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;x-scheme-handler/ftp;x-scheme-handler/chrome;video/webm;application/x-xpinstall; StartupNotify=true __EOF__ 

[Donieck]

I must installed xulrunner 29 from tarball and libdbus-glib.deb from launchpad. Now Palemoon and Basilisk work

[samwhelp]

Initially, I didn't install any additional packages.

I installed Palemoon or Basilisk and it launched successfully.

Firefox, provided by the Mozilla Team, was already installed on Anduinos.

So, I assumed the dependencies for Palemoon or Basilisk were already met.

run

apt-cache show firefox

There is a Package Entry, shown as follows

 Package: firefox Priority: optional Section: web Installed-Size: 273690 Maintainer: Ubuntu Mozilla Team <ubuntu-mozillateam@lists.ubuntu.com> Architecture: amd64 Version: 142.0+build1-0ubuntu0.25.04.1~mt1 Recommends: xul-ext-ubufox, libcanberra0, libdbusmenu-glib4, libdbusmenu-gtk3-4 Replaces: kubuntu-firefox-installer Suggests: fonts-lyx Provides: gnome-www-browser, iceweasel, www-browser Depends: lsb-release, libasound2t64 (>= 1.0.16), libatk1.0-0t64 (>= 1.12.4), libc6 (>= 2.39), libcairo-gobject2 (>= 1.10.0), libcairo2 (>= 1.10.0), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.10), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.12.6), libfreetype6 (>= 2.3.5), libgcc-s1 (>= 4.2), libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0t64 (>= 2.42), libgtk-3-0t64 (>= 3.14), libharfbuzz0b (>= 0.6.0), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libstdc++6 (>= 12), libx11-6, libx11-xcb1, libxcb-shm0, libxcb1, libxcomposite1 (>= 1:0.4.6), libxcursor1 (>> 1.1.2), libxdamage1 (>= 1:1.1), libxext6, libxfixes3, libxi6, libxrandr2 (>= 2:1.4.0), libxrender1, zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4) Filename: pool/main/f/firefox/firefox_142.0+build1-0ubuntu0.25.04.1~mt1_amd64.deb Size: 76834232 MD5sum: 53e47c68d322b60c0b16897edaedabe1 SHA1: ad2382e093bfcaa0661fc9c6509256e3ff636e82 SHA256: dcb9abb2e2987672e1cfc0beb0bb095b85a14f32a7aa8bcfdb1d4ff6589a036e Description-en: Safe and easy web browser from Mozilla Firefox delivers safe, easy web browsing. A familiar user interface, enhanced security features including protection from online identity theft, and integrated search let you get the most out of the web. Description-md5: 46b619f510631c4693dc09c1a3778a55 Xul-Appid: {ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384} 

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According to what you mentioned,

I must installed xulrunner 29 from tarball and libdbus-glib.deb from launchpad. Now Palemoon and Basilisk work 

I re-tested on "AnduinOS 1.3.4 ISO / Live System".

I installed "Palemoon" and executed the following command

palemoon

The message displayed is as follows

XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /home/live/.local/share/palemoon/libxul.so: libdbus-glib-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Couldn't load XPCOM. 

I installed "Basilisk" and executed the following command

basilisk

The message displayed is as follows

XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /home/live/.local/share/basilisk/libxul.so: libdbus-glib-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Couldn't load XPCOM. 

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run

apt-cache search libdbus

show

gir1.2-dbusmenu-glib-0.4 - typelib file for libdbusmenu-glib4 gir1.2-dbusmenu-gtk3-0.4 - typelib file for libdbusmenu-gtk3-4 libdbus-1-3 - simple interprocess messaging system (library) libdbus-1-dev - simple interprocess messaging system (development headers) libdbus-glib-1-2 - deprecated library for D-Bus IPC libdbus-glib-1-dev - deprecated library for D-Bus IPC (development files) libdbus-glib-1-dev-bin - deprecated library for D-Bus IPC (development tools) libdbus-glib-1-doc - deprecated library for D-Bus IPC (API documentation) ... 

Alternatively, you can search for "libdbus" on the "Ubuntu Packages" page.

You can see two key pieces of information

libdbus-1-3 - simple interprocess messaging system (library) libdbus-glib-1-2 - deprecated library for D-Bus IPC 

Regarding libdbus-1-3, it has been installed and can be seen from the "Depends:" column in "firefox".

run

dpkg -l '*libdbus*'

show

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-========================-===============================-============-==================================================== ii libdbus-1-3:amd64 1.16.2-2ubuntu1 amd64 simple interprocess messaging system (library) ii libdbusmenu-glib4:amd64 18.10.20180917~bzr492+repack1-4 amd64 library for passing menus over DBus ii libdbusmenu-gtk3-4:amd64 18.10.20180917~bzr492+repack1-4 amd64 library for passing menus over DBus - GTK-3+ version 

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So I executed the following command to install libdbus-glib-1-2.

sudo apt-get install libdbus-glib-1-2

Then execute again, I can successfully start Palemoon.

palemoon

Then execute again, I can successfully start Basilisk.

basilisk

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I went back to my original environment and found that libdbus-glib-1-2 was already installed.

That's why when I first tested it, I could successfully start Palemoon or Basilisk without installing any additional packages.

dpkg -l '*libdbus*'

show

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-========================-===============================-============-==================================================== ii libdbus-1-3:amd64 1.16.2-2ubuntu1 amd64 simple interprocess messaging system (library) ii libdbus-glib-1-2:amd64 0.112-4 amd64 deprecated library for D-Bus IPC ii libdbusmenu-glib4:amd64 18.10.20180917~bzr492+repack1-4 amd64 library for passing menus over DBus ii libdbusmenu-gtk3-4:amd64 18.10.20180917~bzr492+repack1-4 amd64 library for passing menus over DBus - GTK-3+ version un libdbusmenu-gtk4 <none> <none> (no description available)