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Written By: Chris Schuld Monday, August 6th, 2007

I use the “HTML Validator” Firefox plugin daily. I found it does not work out of the box in Linux namely Fedora Core 6 and Fedora 7. You immediately get a HTML-rendered screen that states:

FATAL ERROR : The dynamic C library contained in the extension file could not be found

Getting rid of this message took me a few minutes of research and I never found a step-by-step HOW-TO for Fedora — so here goes!

Here is how you get rid of this message and get the plugin working in Fedora Core 6 or Fedora 7:

  1. First, uninstall the plugin by clicking on Tools–>Add-ons and clicking uninstall
    Remove HTML Validator
  2. Second, close all instances of Firefox
  3. Next, install three packages using yum
    • compat-libstdc++-296
    • compat-libstdc++-33
    • tidy
    yum install compat-libstdc++-296 compat-libstdc++-33 tidy
  4. Reinstall the HTML Validator plugin
  5. Restart Firefox, done!

HTML Validator should now be installed inside of Firefox on Fedora Core 6 or Fedora 7

Categories: Fedora, Firefox

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