For those interested to downgrade their firefox.x86_64 to 32 bits, here is what I did to achieve that: a) Downloaded the latest firefox binaries from http://www.getfirefox.com/ b) Tried to install in /usr/local but failed: [user@kineto firefox]$ ./firefox ./firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [user@kineto firefox]$ sudo yum install libstdc++ Password: Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up Install Process Setting up repositories core [1/1] core 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files Parsing package install arguments Nothing to do [user@kineto firefox]$ rpm -qa --queryformat="%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{ARCH}\n" | egrep -E 'libstdc++| libX11' | sort compat-libstdc++-296-2.96-i386 compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-x86_64 libstdc++-4.1.1-i386 libstdc++-4.1.1-x86_64 libstdc++-devel-4.1.1-x86_64 [user@kineto firefox]$ sudo yum install compat-libstdc++ Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up Install Process Setting up repositories core [1/1] Reading repository metadata in from local files Parsing package install arguments No Match for argument: compat-libstdc++ Nothing to do c) Then I manually downloaded and installed (from RPM-Pbone) compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-56.fc5.i386.rpm : [user@kineto ~]$ wget -c ftp://ftp.uni-bayreuth.de/pub/redhat.com/fedora/linux/core/updates/5/i386/compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-56.fc5.i386.rpm [user@kineto ~]$ sudo rpm -Uvh compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-56.fc5.i386.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:compat-libstdc++-33 ########################################### [100%] That is a mirror of fedora core, so I don't know why my Yum did not find and installed ... and I dont know how to setup a Yum i386.repo in a x86_64 system. This try just did not work: [user@kineto yum.repos.d]$ more fedora-core-i386.repo [core] name=Fedora Core 5 - i386 baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/ mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core-5 enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY [core-debuginfo] name=Fedora Core 5 - i386 - Debug baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/debug/ enabled=0 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY [core-source] name=Fedora Core 5 - Source baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/source/SRPMS/ enabled=0 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY [user@kineto yum.repos.d]$ d) After compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-56.fc5.i386.rpm install, just put the path in my /home/user/.bashrc file: PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/firefox; export PATH source /home/user/.bashrc e) and Voila ! firefox 2.0 (32 bits) is up and running in my FC5_x86_64 box. I can see/use websites with flash now. That would be great if fedora developers could provide more infos/tips on how to solve dependencies in a mixed system : x86_64 and i386, that might be a nightmare for x86_64 users. Alberto --- Alberto Davila <amrdavila@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Here is the output: > > [user@kineto local]$ rpm -qa > --queryformat="%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{ARCH}\n" > | egrep -E 'mesa| libX11' | sort > mesa-libGL-6.4.2-i386 > mesa-libGL-6.4.2-x86_64 > mesa-libGLU-6.4.2-i386 > mesa-libGLU-6.4.2-x86_64 > > Alberto > > > --- Gilboa Davara <gilboad@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 09:22 -0700, Alberto Davila wrote: > > > Hi Gilboa, unfortunately it did not work, see: > > > > > [snip] > > > [user@kineto ~]$ rpm -qa libX11 > > > libX11-1.0.0-3.FC5.0 > > > libX11-1.0.0-3.FC5.0 > > > [davila1@kineto ~]$ rpm -qa mesa-libGL > > > mesa-libGL-6.4.2-6.FC5.3 > > > mesa-libGL-6.4.2-6.FC5.3 > > > > > > What I should do now ? Any tips on how to downgrade my firefox to 32 > > bits > > > ? after uninstalling the 64 bits version, I tried this: > > > > > > > The best way to install 32bit firefox is to download it from > mozilla.org > > and install it under /home and/or /usr/local, creating shortcut to it. > > > > As for your problem. > > You seem to have a problem with you multi-lib support. (32bit > libraries > > on 64bit OS) > > > > Please post the output of: > > $ rpm -qa --queryformat="%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{ARCH}\n" | egrep -E > 'mesa| > > libX11' | sort > > > > - Gilboa > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
