I noticed that a fresh install of x86_64 FC6 resulted in both i386 and x86_64 packages for firefox being installed. I would like to configure my machine to default to the i386 version of firefox and am wondering if there is an approved mechanism to setting this (since FC6 went out of its way to preinstall the i386 binaries on x86_64)? Jack
Jack Howarth wrote:
I noticed that a fresh install of x86_64 FC6 resulted in both i386 and x86_64 packages for firefox being installed. I would like to configure my machine to default to the i386 version of firefox and am wondering if there is an approved mechanism to setting this (since FC6 went out of its way to preinstall the i386 binaries on x86_64)?
Well, I doubt this is an "approved" method, but I edit /usr/bin/firefox at line 40 and change "/usr/lib64..." to "/usr/notlib64." This fools the script into thinking there is no 64-bit firefox. The only problem with this is remembering to make the change each time firefox is updated. The line number is from firefox 2.0 from the development repo. It may be different for firefox 1.5. Just look for the lines like these:
if [ -x "/usr/notlib64/firefox-2.0.0.1/firefox-bin" ] then MOZ_LIB_DIR="/usr/lib64"
Joel Gomberg wrote:
Well, I doubt this is an "approved" method, but I edit /usr/bin/firefox at line 40 and change "/usr/lib64..." to "/usr/notlib64." This fools the script into thinking there is no 64-bit firefox. The only problem with this is remembering to make the change each time firefox is updated. The line number is from firefox 2.0 from the development repo. It may be different for firefox 1.5. Just look for the lines like these:
if [ -x "/usr/notlib64/firefox-2.0.0.1/firefox-bin" ] then MOZ_LIB_DIR="/usr/lib64"
If you're going to try something like this, may I point out that by default /usr/local/bin is ahead of /usr/bin. So you can copy the file to /usr/local/bin, make the changes there, and allow yum to update Firefox at will. The only problem would be if the script changed incompatibly, and that seems unlikely.
Hope this helps,
James.
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 01:06:00PM -0500, Jack Howarth wrote:
I noticed that a fresh install of x86_64 FC6 resulted in both i386 and x86_64 packages for firefox being installed. I would like to configure my machine to default to the i386 version of firefox and am wondering if there is an approved mechanism to setting this (since FC6 went out of its way to preinstall the i386 binaries on x86_64)?
Install the "firefox-32" package from Extras:
Description : Alternate Launcher for 32bit Firefox on Multilib Systems If you have both 32bit and 64bit Firefox installed, the standard /usr/bin/firefox launcher will run only the 64bit version. This launcher allows you to choose to run the 32bit browser by running /usr/bin/firefox-32. Please be sure that all Firefox instances are closed before running this launcher.
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