Phil Schaffner wrote: > 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=updates > #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/i386/ > gpgcheck=1 > gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-centos4 > enabled=0 > protect=1 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Should then be able to do: > > # yum --enable update-i386 install firefox.i386 > # yum remove firefox.x86_64 > > This will need to be handled manually whenever there is a firefox > update, and this (along with some other 32/64-bit incompatibility > issues) is the primary reason I'm running an i386 install rather than > x86_64 on my dual Opteron desktop machine. > > Phil > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > i'm kinda newbie in centos.... so clear me something... you say that I must put this entry #released i386 updates [update-i386] name=CentOS-$releasever - i386 Updates mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=i386&repo=updates #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/i386/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-centos4 enabled=0 protect=1 in /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo , right? is there anything else that i must consider?