Sunday, August 8, 2010

Ubuntu Firefox 3.6 HtmlValidator extension - Fixed!

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid), Firefox 3.6.3, HTMLVALIDATOR extension - howto

1) Download & install HTML Validator extension:
http://users.skynet.be/mgueury/mozilla/download.html

2) Install libstdc++5
http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/i386/libstdc++5/download

3) Link tidy to the library
cd ~/.mozilla/firefox/
find . -name libnstidy.so
#go to that  directory:
cd  directory_of_libnstidy.so
# create symbolic link to libstdc++5
ln -s /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 libstdc++.so.5

4) Restart firefox (stop it, wait 10 seconds, start it)

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