>>
>I'm on an FC2 AMD x86_64 Dual Opteron machine and can't install the
>firefox i386 version you suggested. Here is my problem, which is pretty
>self-explanatory. I've had this issue with many, many packages where RPM
>says it needs something that very obviously exists in the right place. I
>don't understand it.
>
>[root@teddy cyrus]# rpm -Uvh
>/home/cyrus/Desktop/packages/firefox-0.8-0.fdr.11.2.i386.rpm
>warning: /home/cyrus/Desktop/packages/firefox-0.8-0.fdr.11.2.i386.rpm:
>V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID ecc63e4d
>error: Failed dependencies:
> libXinerama.so.1 is needed by firefox-0.8-0.fdr.11.2
>[root@teddy cyrus]# locate libXinerama.so.1
>/usr/X11R6/lib64/libXinerama.so.1
>/usr/X11R6/lib64/libXinerama.so.1.0
>[root@teddy cyrus]# cat /etc/ld.so.conf
>/usr/X11R6/lib
>/usr/X11R6/lib64
>/usr/lib64/sane
>/usr/lib64/qt-3.1/lib
>/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/lib
>/usr/local/lib/php
>/usr/local/lib
>/usr/local/lib64
>/usr/lib64/mysql
>/usr/lib64
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Cyrus
>
The problem is that you have the 64-bit Xinerama shared library but the 32-bit
firefox needs the 32-bit Xinerama shared library (and the 32-bit version of
other things, too). The biarch model says for example that 64-bit shared
libraries for X-Windows are in /usr/X11R6/lib64 while the 32-bit libraries
ares in /usr/X11R6/lib. The linker does not like to load 64-bit libraries into
32 bit programs because addresses are not compatible etc.
The solution is to load the 32-bit version of the Xinerama library. On my
system, I run
$ rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/X11R6/lib/libXinerama.so.1
xorg-x11-libs-6.7.0-5
This is an upgrade of xorg-x11-libs-6.7.0-2.i386.rpm on the original disk
I installed from. That disk also has the x86_64 version you have installed.
So, if your yum configuration points at an appropriate mirror, you should be
able to run
$ yum install xorg-x11-libs-6.7.0-5.i386
to get the library. (I did install everything at the outset, so I already
had it.
The biarch business usually works great (the heaving lifting is done by
by the processor) but there are some glitches. For example, the 32-bit
and 64-bit versions of the gdk-pixbuf packages share a nonidentical config
file in /etc/gtk-2.0. I have tried things like using rpm -i --force to
install the 32-bit version and then the 64-bit version and then guessing how
to edit the common files to pull it all together. I have to say I am not
very confident about the outcome, since I don't have a clear understanding
of how the packages use the config files. However, there is no conflict for
libXinerama.
For more information, I recommend Justin Forbes' x86_64 on FC2 FAQ:
http://www.linuxtx.org/amd64faq.html
and his posts here.
-- Phil
