On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 10:38:16 +0100, Angelo Machils
<angelus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jonathan schreef:
[snip]
> > So, in response to Angelo, if you want to use plugins for which there
> > are only 32-bit versions right now (like flash and java), uninstall
> > 64-bit Firefox and get the 32-bit version and your plugins will work
> > just fine (go to your local mirror and pick up the RPM). Also, make
> > sure you *soft link* to the plugin. Don't copy it to
> > /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ or it still will not work (by the way,
> > Firefox has its own directory seperate from Mozilla). If you want,
> > you can run 32-bit Mozilla and 64-bit Firefox, or vise-versa if you
> > want both a 32- and 64-bit browser. I don't think you can have both
> > versions of one installed, though. At least yum didn't like that
> > idea. 32-bit Firefox runs great for me though, so I think I'll just
> > stick with it until 64-bit plugins have come around.
> >
> > Jonathan
> >
> Oeps, had the wrong subject line in the previous reply, sorry about that.
No problem. I think I actually saw it, but just haven't gotten around
to the reply : ).
> Thank you for the reply. There is Firefox 0.9 and Mozilla 1.7.3 (both
> 64-bits) installed already. How can I remove for example Mozilla (when I
> do a rpm -qa mozilla I get a whole load full of RPM's) and/or replace it
> with a 32-bits version?
Well, I uninstalled Firefox and reinstalled the 32-bit version of it.
With Mozilla, it's going to be more interesting as Mozilla, as you
noticed, has many libraries of sorts around (though you should be able
to have the libraries for both architectures). What you probably also
may have seen is stuff like the Mozilla mail client and other
programs. You can first try rpm -e mozilla-1.7.3-17.x86_64 (assuming
you have the same version as I do) and see if it complains. This
should be the main mozilla package. If that doesn't work, "yum remove
mozilla" should. To install the 32-bit version, try yum first ("yum
install mozilla.i386") and if that doesn't work, go to a local mirror
and grad the 32-bit mozilla rpms from the Updates. I don't think the
yum install will work, I don't see a 32-bit mozilla doing "yum info
mozilla\*" You can force it to work by adding a 32-bit repo, but
leaving this seemed to cause some problems:
[updates-released-i386]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - i386 - Released Updates
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/i386/
# add mirrors here
enabled=0 # change to 1 to enable
gpgcheck=1
> What directory does Firefox use for its plugins??
Should be something like:
/usr/lib64/firefox-0.9/plugins/
for 64-bit (in /usr/lib/ for 32-bit). If it's not firefox-0.9
exactly, just "ls /usr/lib64/firefox*" and see what comes up. I have
firefox-1.0-2.fc3.i386, and it seems there is the same version for
x86_64, so you should upgrade ("yum update firefox"). Then the
plugins should be /usr/lib64/firefox-1.0/plugins/
And if you haven't updated your system at all, be sure to do that too : ).
> Thanks in advance, Angelo
Have fun. Hopefully people will start to catch on and produce 64-bit
versions soon.
Jonathan
