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. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050919/99bbab8b/attachment-0005.sig>