On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 06:49:56PM -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote: > Chris G wrote: >> A little while ago I reported a problem I had here with not being able >> to load the gnome-terminal help, I found that it needed yelp to be >> installed for the help to work. I installed yelp and all was well but >> couldn't quite work out why yelp had gone missing. >> Now I have discovered why. If you remove firefox it removes yelp with >> it, even though other things require yelp for their help. >> I had removed the 64-bit version of firefox and replaced it with the >> 32-bit version which doesn't appear to have yelp with it. >> OK, it's a bit of an odd dependency issue but there are good reasons >> for wanting a 32-bit firefox on a 64-bit system. > > If you haven't tried "nspluginwrapper" on x86_64 yet, you might wantt > to give it a whirl. It allows you to run a number of 32bit plugins > with the 64bit firefox on x86_64. In particular it works pretty well > with the Adobe flash plugin. I haven't tried it with any other > plugins, so your mileage may vary. > I did initially try the nspluginwrapper and it made some things work but it does add an extra layer of confusion to getting Firefox as I want it and in the end I found that running the i386 version was simply much easier. What I have done now is to install both the i386 and the x86_64 versions of Firefox and I have madified the script at /usr/bin/firefox so that it runs the i386 version. It means I have to remember to modify that script very time I upgrade Firefox but it's a trivially easy change so not a big deal. -- Chris Green
