Re: Installing i386 packages via yum on a x86_64 F9 based system

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@xxxxxxxxx>
To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
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@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

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