On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 11:17 -0400, David Johnston wrote:
On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 05:51 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
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'll second the suggestion to run the 32-bit browser. 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.
So should we file reports in Red Hat's bugzilla or lobby you to make an exception in this case? ;-)
The current system (64-bit browser) breaks things and requires manual intervention to get things working. If you stop building Firefox for 64-bit architectures, yum will fall back to the 32-bit versions which work, meaning that no manual intervention will be required.
Only if all the .i386 packages required to run the .i386 version of FireFox are also in the x86_64 tree. They may or may not be included.
BUT ... we will keep the main tree exactly like the one from upstream.
Let me see if I can figure out what packages are required.
If you do this, it will probably work OK:
1. Download firefox-1.0.6-1.4.2.centos4.i386.rpm from here:
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/updates/i386/RPMS/
2. Use this command (from within the directory where you downloaded firefox):
yum install firefox-1.0.6-1.4.2.centos4.i386.rpm
3. When I did this, it resolved all the required i386 and i686 packages from the x86_64 tree.
4. That doesn't mean that there are all the required i386 items to run the 32-bit plugins or Java. This will break your ability to properly build RPMS from SRPMS that are 64bit.
Personally, if you need to run 32-bit software, I would just install the i386 distro on my x86_64.