On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 12:07 -0300, Dago Pacheco wrote:
Matthew Miller wrote:
On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 07:04:26PM -0300, Dago Pacheco wrote:
ok, but does it decrease the performance or does it generate problems?... by installing the 32bit version i mean
Not that you're likely to notice.
Maby is a stupid question, but i wanna be sure. There will be no problem with the profile, right?... i don't wanna loose it.
The user profile should not be a problem, but the installation is a bit more complicated than described earlier as firefox.i386 is not in the x86_64 repos. I have worked around this in the past by creating a repo entry for the i386 version of the repos, disabled by default. Sample follows - excerpt from a modified /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo (watch out for wrapping): -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #released i386 updates [update-i386] name=CentOS-$releasever - i386 Updates mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=i386&repo=upd... #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/i386/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-centos4 enabled=0 protect=1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Should then be able to do:
# yum --enable update-i386 install firefox.i386 # yum remove firefox.x86_64
This will need to be handled manually whenever there is a firefox update, and this (along with some other 32/64-bit incompatibility issues) is the primary reason I'm running an i386 install rather than x86_64 on my dual Opteron desktop machine.
Phil