On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 10:10:31 -0500, jim lawrence <fedorajim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 15:01:47 +0000, Thiago Guzella > <thiago.guzella@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Well, I have been running FC2/FC3 on a x86_64 box for roughly 6 months now, so: > > > > > 1. no flash player for firefox > > you can TRY to live with swfdec (check freshrpms.net) until macromedia > > finally releases a 64 bit version > > > > > 2. java plugin won't work > > we will have to wait... the last resort would be to run a 32-bit > > version of firefox... > > i was trying to help another user last night to install the i686 > version of firefox but it wouldn't install for him. Don't remember > what the issue was. > Did they have the x86_64 version installed at the time? I think you have to remove that one first. If you were trying to use yum, you will need to add a .repo file for the i386 repos. I have the following: $ cat /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.i386.repo [updates-released-i386] name=Fedora Core $releasever - i386 - Released Updates baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/i386/ #[snip, put local mirrors here] enabled=0 gpgcheck=1 $ cat /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.i386.repo [base-i386] name=Fedora Core $releasever - i386 - Base baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/os/ #[snip, put local mirrors here] enabled=0 gpgcheck=1 Then you can just do: "yum --enablerepo=updates-released-i386 install firefox" (perhaps you might need to specify "firefox.i386" I'm not sure) Also, you can simply download the rpm file from a mirror and do an rpm -ivh firefox*.rpm Works for me. Also, this works very well, not just as a last resort. To Jim: I have also been using FC2/3 x86_64 since the end of last summer. It works great, FC3 supports x86_64 very well. I have a laptop, and now ndiswrapper even supports my wireless card in 64-bits, I think that was the last thing I've really had trouble with due to being 64-bit. If you develop code in 64-bit to run on 32-bit, you have to watch out for a few things : ). What kind of computer are you looking at? Jonathan
