Firefox and 64-bit.

[David-Paul Niner]

Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 06.11.2005, 18:55 -0600 schrieb Jonathan Berry:
> 
>>On 11/6/05, Erik P. Olsen <erik at epo.dk> wrote:
>>
>>>I have installed Firefox 1.0.7 on FC4 which is a 64-bit version. I have
>>>also installer Java 1.5.0.05, 64-bit version, but there was no plugin in
>>
>>Correct.  There is no 64-bit Java browser plugin yet, only 32-bit.
> 
> 
> Blackdown has a 64bit-plugin that I once got to work on FC4:
> 
> $ wget ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/languages/java/linux/JDK-1.4.2/amd64/02/j2re-1.4.2-02-linux-amd64.bin
> $ bash j2re-1.4.2-02-linux-amd64.bin
> $ ls ./j2re1.4.2/plugin/amd64/mozilla/libjavaplugin_oji.so
> 
> But I chose to run a i386-Firefox on FC4-x64. That's quite easy:
> 
> - add a file /etc/yum.repos.d/i386-firefox with this content:
> 
> [core-i386]
> enabled=1
> name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch
> baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/i386/os/
> gpgcheck=1
> failovermethod=priority
> includepkgs=firefox libgnomeui libbonoboui libgnome
> 
> [updates-released-i386]
> enabled=1
> name=Fedora Core $releasever - i386 - Released Updates
> baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/i386/
> gpgcheck=1
> failovermethod=priority
> includepkgs=firefox libgnomeui libbonoboui libgnome
> 
> - run
> yum remove firefox
> yum install firefox.i386
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> CU
> thl
> 

After reading through your post I decided to axe my 64-bit version of
Firefox and install the 32-bit version (to get the Java plugin working
correctly).   Creating the file described above I receive the following
message when trying to install firefox.i386:

No Match for argument: firefox.i386
Nothing to do

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks,
DP
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