On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 23:20 -0400, David Johnston wrote:
On Sat, 2005-09-17 at 19:37 +0200, Kai wrote:
I have some problems installing java support to my browser (firefox). This support I installed with no problem when running the 32 bit version on the same machine, but now I can't find the plugin. I running on S754 - AMD XP3000
this is the file i download: jre-1_5_0_04-linux-amd64.bin
And I am following the installation instructions from this link: http://java.com/en/download/help/5000010500.xml
Everything seems to install perfectly, but the libjavaplugin_oji.so is not included, I can't find. Maybe there is an other file to link up to? If someone has the answer, please!
I'll second the suggestion to run the 32-bit browser. It's my understanding that with AMD processors, 64-bit gets you a larger address space but not much speed (by this, I mean that 32-bit and 64-bit programs will run at more or less the same speed on a given 64-bit ADM processor). The browser doesn't need the extra address space.
You will need to remove the 64-bit version of Firefox, and then install the 32-bit version (yum remove firefox; yum install firefox.i386).
What do we gain by using a 64-bit version of Firefox? So many of the plugins won't work with it & aren't available in 64bit.
If there's no gain, would it not make sense to stop building the 64-bit version and default to the 32-bit version?
Maybe ... but we build it like the upstream provider. They release firefox only as an x86_64 version for el4 ... therefore so do we.