4.2.2.1. How to Start the Visual Page Editor under Linux

Linux users may need to do the following to get the Visual Editor to work correctly on their machines.

The Visual Page Editor requires the library libstdc++.so.5. This library is contained in the compat-libstdc++-33.i386 package.

  • To install this package on Fedora Core or Red Hat Enterprise Linux run the following command:

    yum install compat-libstdc++-33.i386
    
  • On any other rpm based distributions download libstdc++.so.5 and run the following command:

    rpm -Uvh compat-libstdc++-33.i386
    
  • On Debian based distributives run the following command:

    apt-get install compat-libstdc++-33.i386
    

In case you have the library installed and you still have issue with starting the visual page editor then close all browser views/editors and leave one visual page editor open and restart eclipse. This should force a load of the right XULRunner viewer.