Installing i386 packages via yum on a x86_64 F9 based system

[Armin]

On Thursday 31 July 2008 13:15:22 Ubence Quevedo wrote:
> Thank you for the response.
>
> I'm not looking to install the 32-Bit Firefox via yum, because I've 
already
> downloaded it from the mozilla website.  I'm trying to run the 32-Bit
> Firefox and it is complaining about missing libraries.  I fixed this before
> by getting the i386 version of the libraries via yum, but I can't 
remember
> how I got the relevant gtk related i386 libraries I needed.  For 
example,
> bugbuddy is one of the dependencies I need, but when I did: yum list
> *bug*buddy*i386, I didn't get any results back.  So, that is why I 
thought
> I needed to get the i386 repo information.
>
> And I'm running the 32-Bit version of Firefox because there is no 64-
Bit
> version of Flash, and I don't feel like running some type of 
compatibility
> mode to get it to work.
>
> Does anyone else have any ideas?
>
> Thanx!
>
> -Ubence
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Giovanni Cucca <giovanni.cucca at gmail.com>
> To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 8:14:38 AM
> Subject: Re: Installing i386 packages via yum on a x86_64 F9 based 
system
>
> Il Thursday 31 July 2008 16:48:46 Ubence Quevedo ha scritto:
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > I recently reformatted my x86_64 F9 based system, and somehow 
before
> > the format I was able to install i386 packages via yum [I forgot
> > exactly how I did this].  Now after the reformat, when I try to
> > specify i386 packages to install [yum list *.i386], I get no results
> > returned.  Is there a specific repo I need to enable to access the
> > i386 packages?  The reason for this question is because I manually
> > installed the x86 version of Firefox, and the required libraries and
> > files to run i386 Firefox aren't installed as part of the x86_64
> > install.
> >
> > Can someone please advise on how I can install i386 packages via 
yum
> > on a x86_64 based system?
> >
> > Thanx!
> >
> > -Ubence
>
> [oneiros at sincity ~]$ yum list | grep i386
> OpenEXR-libs.i386                        1.6.1-3.fc9
> installed
> adobe-release-i386.noarch                1.0-1
> installed
> alsa-lib.i386                            1.0.16-3.fc9
> installed
>
> [snip]
>
> zvbi-devel.i386                          0.2.30-1.fc9           fedora
> zziplib.i386                             0.13.49-5.fc9          fedora
> zziplib-devel.i386                       0.13.49-5.fc9          fedora
>
> There are plenty of i386 packages in the Fedora repos, but firefox isn't
> there, or at least I didn't find it (I use Konqueror anyway :P).
> If you're searching 32-bit Firefox for the plugins (i.e. the Flash
> plugin) you can always use one of the free plugins avilable (Gnash or
> swfdec) or the proprietary plugin via nspluginwrapper (you can follow
> the guide here: http://fedora64.org/solved/browser-solutions/flash ).
> If you have other uses for 32-bit Firefox, well, then I don know :P
>
> Giovanni
> --
> Fedora release 9 (Sulphur)
> 2.6.25.11-97.fc9.x86_64
you can use the 64bit version of firefox with 32bit flash, just follow this 
link. 

http://fengshaun.wordpress.com/2008/06/24/enabling-flash-support-for-
firefox-in-fedora-9-for-64bit-arch/

it's short and to the point!!

-- 
Armin