On Thursday 31 July 2008 13:15:22 Ubence Quevedo wrote: > Thank you for the response. > > I'm not looking to install the 32-Bit Firefox via yum, because I've already > downloaded it from the mozilla website. I'm trying to run the 32-Bit > Firefox and it is complaining about missing libraries. I fixed this before > by getting the i386 version of the libraries via yum, but I can't remember > how I got the relevant gtk related i386 libraries I needed. For example, > bugbuddy is one of the dependencies I need, but when I did: yum list > *bug*buddy*i386, I didn't get any results back. So, that is why I thought > I needed to get the i386 repo information. > > And I'm running the 32-Bit version of Firefox because there is no 64- Bit > version of Flash, and I don't feel like running some type of compatibility > mode to get it to work. > > Does anyone else have any ideas? > > Thanx! > > -Ubence > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Giovanni Cucca <giovanni.cucca@xxxxxxxxx> > To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 8:14:38 AM > Subject: Re: Installing i386 packages via yum on a x86_64 F9 based system > > Il Thursday 31 July 2008 16:48:46 Ubence Quevedo ha scritto: > > Hi Everyone, > > > > I recently reformatted my x86_64 F9 based system, and somehow before > > the format I was able to install i386 packages via yum [I forgot > > exactly how I did this]. Now after the reformat, when I try to > > specify i386 packages to install [yum list *.i386], I get no results > > returned. Is there a specific repo I need to enable to access the > > i386 packages? The reason for this question is because I manually > > installed the x86 version of Firefox, and the required libraries and > > files to run i386 Firefox aren't installed as part of the x86_64 > > install. > > > > Can someone please advise on how I can install i386 packages via yum > > on a x86_64 based system? > > > > Thanx! > > > > -Ubence > > [oneiros@sincity ~]$ yum list | grep i386 > OpenEXR-libs.i386 1.6.1-3.fc9 > installed > adobe-release-i386.noarch 1.0-1 > installed > alsa-lib.i386 1.0.16-3.fc9 > installed > > [snip] > > zvbi-devel.i386 0.2.30-1.fc9 fedora > zziplib.i386 0.13.49-5.fc9 fedora > zziplib-devel.i386 0.13.49-5.fc9 fedora > > There are plenty of i386 packages in the Fedora repos, but firefox isn't > there, or at least I didn't find it (I use Konqueror anyway :P). > If you're searching 32-bit Firefox for the plugins (i.e. the Flash > plugin) you can always use one of the free plugins avilable (Gnash or > swfdec) or the proprietary plugin via nspluginwrapper (you can follow > the guide here: http://fedora64.org/solved/browser-solutions/flash ). > If you have other uses for 32-bit Firefox, well, then I don know :P > > Giovanni > -- > Fedora release 9 (Sulphur) > 2.6.25.11-97.fc9.x86_64 you can use the 64bit version of firefox with 32bit flash, just follow this link. http://fengshaun.wordpress.com/2008/06/24/enabling-flash-support-for- firefox-in-fedora-9-for-64bit-arch/ it's short and to the point!! -- Armin -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
