How to run Firefix 3.5 under CentOS 4.4

I finally received a Google Wave [1] Invite (via Smirk) and decided to give it a try. I go to the link, sign in with my Google email [2] address, and get the following:

[Sorry, your browser is not supported, but hey, do you feel lucky?] [3]

I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.20 [4]. Yes, it's an older version, but hey, it works—why fix it?

So I download the latest Firefox (3.5) and try the website again:

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```

[spc]lucy:~/bin/firefox>./firefox

./firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries:

libpangocairo-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file:

No such file or directory

[spc]lucy:~/bin/firefox>

```

Ah yes, that's what happend the last time I tried running Firefox 3.

I'm using CentOS 4.4 [5] as my desktop, and yes, I'm using an older distribution of a distribution geared towards servers as a desktop. As for the older distribution part, hey, it works, and I dislike upgrading if I don't have to (I used RedHat [6] 5.2 (not to be confused for their latest 5.2 offering [7]) for about ten years prior to my upgrade to CentOS 4.4). As for the server bit, well … I do a lot of server development, and we run CentOS at The Office™ so it makes my life easier.

And I'm used to RedHat/CentOS.

So anyway, back to the current issue—Firefox 3.5.

The default repositories for CentOS 4.4 don't carry libpangocairo and after some searching, I found that installing frysk [8] (ah, so that's what frysk does) I get libpangocairo as part of the package, under /usr/lib/frysk. So, all I need to do is tell Firefox 3.5 where to load that library and I'm good to go.