32 bit chroot

[Steve Searle]

Can anyone point me at any instructions for creating a 32 bit chroot for
firefox on a FC5 64 bit system?

Cheers

Steve

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[korgull]

On Sunday 27 August 2006 13:58, Steve Searle wrote:
>  Can anyone point me at any instructions for creating a 32 bit chroot
> for
>  firefox on a FC5 64 bit system? 
I think you can just start the 32bit firefox, or if necessary use the linux32 
command to get you in 32bit mode.

Regards,
Marcel

[Ian Burrell]

Steve Searle <steve <at> stevesearle.com> writes:
>  
>  Can anyone point me at any instructions for creating a 32 bit chroot for
>  firefox on a FC5 64 bit system?
>   
You don't need to install a 32-bit chroot with Fedora.  Fedora allows installing
the 32-bit libraries and applications alongside the 64-bit ones.  In fact, it is
possible to have both 32-bit and 64-bit Firefox installed at the same time and
make a script to run the 32-bit one.

The easiest way is to setup the i386 versions of the yum repositories.  Then
doing "yum --enablerepo=core-i386 --enablerepo=updates-i386 install
firefox.i386" will install the 32-bit firefox.

I wrote it up a while ago on my blog at
http://znark.com/blog/articles/2006/04/17/32-bit-firefox-on-fedora.

 - Ian

[Tom Horsley]

>  I wrote it up a while ago on my blog at
>  http://znark.com/blog/articles/2006/04/17/32-bit-firefox-on-fedora. 
And the linux32 program I just saw mentioned earlier in this thread
makes
it even simpler, since you don't need to edit the firefox script
to stop using the 64 bit version, just run firefox under linux32
(once you have the 32 bit version installed).

Haven't tried it myself, but I probably will soon.
(Actually I wonder if I could run yum under linux32
and avoid setting up the 32 bit specific repos?)

[John Mahowald]

On 8/28/06, Tom Horsley <tomhorsley(a)adelphia.net&gt; wrote:
>  (Actually I wonder if I could run yum under linux32
>  and avoid setting up the 32 bit specific repos?)
>  
Only if using it changes the yum variable $basearch from x86_64 to
i386. It might work, try it.

While you're at it you could get someone to package linux32 for Fedora Extras.

John

[Tom Horsley]

On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 17:43 -0500, John Mahowald wrote:
>  On 8/28/06, Tom Horsley <tomhorsley(a)adelphia.net&gt; wrote:
>  > (Actually I wonder if I could run yum under linux32
>  > and avoid setting up the 32 bit specific repos?)
>  >
>  
>  Only if using it changes the yum variable $basearch from x86_64 to
>  i386. It might work, try it.
>  
>  While you're at it you could get someone to package linux32 for Fedora Extras.
It was on my system already, rpm sez it came from package setarch.
It's man page says it changes what uname reports as the architecture,
so I guess it depends on where yum comes up with basearch.

I'm kinda reluctant to try it though since I have no idea how
yum might react to a database with tons of x86_64 stuff
in it when it thinks the arch is now i386 :-).

Maybe when I'm about to regen to FC6, I'll see what it does
when I no longer care if my FC5 partition gets corrupted.