make sure you have libxml oaf ORBit gnome-libs gnome-vfs gconf libglade scrollkeeper mozilla-1.7 (or other) configure with: --prefix=/usr --with-mozilla-libs=/usr/lib/mozilla-1.7 --with-mozilla-includes=/usr/include/mozilla-1.7 --with-mozilla-snapshot=1.7 --be sure to match the above with the version you have installed -- gconf config dir is /usr/etc/gconf -- scrollkeeper is probably not needed at runtime -- gconf may not be needed, but enables you to do set extra configurations which are unavailable otherwise. -- strange that slib wasn't required -galeon installs slib schema files Here's the output from ldd: bash-3.00# ldd ./galeon-bin libgtkembedmoz.so => /usr/lib/mozilla/libgtkembedmoz.so libgtksuperwin.so => /usr/lib/mozilla/libgtksuperwin.so libxpcom.so => /usr/lib/mozilla/libxpcom.so libnspr4.so => /usr/lib/libnspr4.so (0x40021000) libplc4.so => /usr/lib/libplc4.so (0x40055000) libplds4.so => /usr/lib/libplds4.so (0x4005a000) libgdk_pixbuf.so.2 => /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf.so.2 (0x4005d000) libgnomevfs.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgnomevfs.so.0 (0x40071000) librt.so.1 => /lib/librt.so.1 (0x400a1000) libgthread-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgthread-1.2.so.0 (0x400b4000) libglade-gnome.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglade-gnome.so.0 (0x400b7000) libglade.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglade.so.0 (0x400c6000) libgnomeui.so.32 => /usr/lib/libgnomeui.so.32 (0x400de000) libart_lgpl.so.2 => /usr/lib/libart_lgpl.so.2 (0x401b2000) libgdk_imlib.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgdk_imlib.so.1 (0x401c2000) libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x401e6000) libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x401ee000) libgnome.so.32 => /usr/lib/libgnome.so.32 (0x40206000) libgnomesupport.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgnomesupport.so.0 (0x4021c000) libaudiofile.so.0 => /usr/lib/libaudiofile.so.0 (0x40221000) libdb.so.2 => /lib/libdb.so.2 (0x40246000) libxml.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxml.so.1 (0x40254000) libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x402cc000) libXinerama.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXinerama.so.1 (0x402dd000) libgconf-gtk-1.so.1 => /usr/local/lib/libgconf-gtk-1.so.1 (0x402e0000) libgconf-1.so.1 => /usr/local/lib/libgconf-1.so.1 (0x402e6000) liboaf.so.0 => /usr/lib/liboaf.so.0 (0x4031f000) libpopt.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpopt.so.0 (0x40337000) libORBitCosNaming.so.0 => /usr/lib/libORBitCosNaming.so.0 (0x4033f000) libORBit.so.0 => /usr/lib/libORBit.so.0 (0x40347000) libIIOP.so.0 => /usr/lib/libIIOP.so.0 (0x40380000) libORBitutil.so.0 => /usr/lib/libORBitutil.so.0 (0x40388000) libgtk-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0 (0x4038b000) libgdk-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk-1.2.so.0 (0x404a9000) libgmodule-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgmodule-1.2.so.0 (0x404da000) libglib-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0 (0x404dd000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x404fe000) libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x40502000) libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x40511000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x405db000) libstdc++.so.5 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 (0x4062d000) libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x406e5000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x40708000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40711000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)