installing Epiphany on Red Hat/CentOS

[Michael Wardle <michael endbracket net>]

Hi Geoff

It sounds like you're rather frustrated!

As you've discovered, Epiphany uses the Mozilla Gecko rendering engine,
so it requires that Mozilla is also installed.  If you have a closer
look at the exact message, you should be able to figure out which bit
you're missing.

>From running "rpm -qRp <epiphany RPM>", the two obvious dependencies
are:
- libgtkembedmoz.so (.so means a shared object, or library file)
- mozilla = 37:1.7.10 (at least version 1.7.10 of the CentOS mozilla
package)

It's been a while since I've used Red Hat, but I think you can run
"yum search <missing program>" from a command prompt to see which
packages you can install to satisfy these dependencies.

The documentation also shows how to use yum to install packages that are
not in the main repositories (in other words, downloaded separately).
http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/sn-yum-installing-frompackage.html

I'm not sure where to find the equivalent documentation for CentOS, but
Fedora is the bleeding-edge community version of Red Hat.  Most of the
information about Fedora should apply to RHEL and CentOS.

If the instructions there work for you, please report back here so that
someone can update the Epiphany download instructions to include this
information.  You could even create an account and add the information
yourself.
http://live.gnome.org/Epiphany_2fDownloads

If the instructions there don't work for you, I'd suggest trying to find
a mailing list or support forum.  Both the Fedora people and the CentOS
people should be happy to provide more assistance.  The Fedora Project's
support information is at
http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/communicate/, while the CentOS
support is under the Support link on the CentOS home page.

It's better to start out there, especially in the case of installing new
software, since each Linux distribution has different tools, and the
people who know the flavor you're using will be best able to give you
the specifics.

If you can afford $200,000 for Windows licenses, you could also have a
look a Red Hat support agreement.  These guys should be able to give you
the backup you need.
https://www.redhat.com/support/