David Johnston 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.
A distro isnt built around a single app - and if there is a feature lacking on one tree ( x86_64 in this case ) the system is capable of running the i386 distro, perhaps you might want to switch ? I run Firefox.x86_64 with no issues, but then I dont need/use any of those plugins either :)
Having said that, its also possible, to just grab the firefox.i386 browser from the i386 tree and install that locally. A couple of well placed exclude= and includepkgs= in the relevant yum config files, will even let you automate the process.
So should we file reports in Red Hat's bugzilla or lobby you to make an exception in this case? ;-)
Does ( as Tru already pointed out ) http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/java2-status/jdk1.4-status.html not give you what you need w.r.t Java on x86_64 ?
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.
There is no 32bit, i386 firefox in the CentOS/x86_64 distro tree so yum is not going to fall back to anything.
ref: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/x86_64/CentOS/RPMS/
- K