Mariano López Reta <mlreta <at> alternativagratis.com> writes: > > Fellow co-listers: > > Right now, on my machine, there's a 64bit FC4. The CPU is an Athlon64 > 3000+ with 512MB 400Mhz RAM. Graphics are handled by a GeForce 5200 with > 128MB. HD is a 160GB 7200RPM Hitachi SATA. > > I'm downloading both x86-64 and i386 versions of FC5, so the big > question is: should I "downgrade" to i386 in order to get all firefox > plugins, less compilation hassles when compiling 3rd-party stuff, and > (mainly) shockwave/flash (unfortunately, most web pages, including home > banking ones, use flash in my country, so there's no way to avoid it). > Or should I stick to the 64bit version and face all the inconveniences > that I have now? Quick answer would be: if you can handle the hassle, > keep 64. But the deeper question here is: is it worth it to face all the > hassle? Are there really significant differences in performance? > You can run 32-bit firefox and plugins on 64-bit Fedora. Yum makes it fairly easy to set up i386 repositories and install firefox.i386. You may need to remove firefox.x86_64 since I don't think they can be installed simultaneously. The way I have done it in the past is created a core-i386 and updates-i386 repositories. Basically, copy the .repo files, change $basearch to i386, change the name. You can't use the mirrorlist because they include the $ARCH variable. This is what my /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-core-i386.repo file looks like: [core-i386] name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/ #mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core-$releasever baseurl=file:///home/pub/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/os/ enabled=0 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY Then do: yum --enablerepo=core-i386 --enablerepo=updates-i386 install firefox.i386 - Ian -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
