Re: FC 8 choose : i386 or X86_64 ?

On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:10:12 +0000, Steve wrote:

Ivan Marsh wrote:
On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:31:11 +0000, Steve wrote:

Ivan Marsh wrote:
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:19:30 +0000, Steve wrote:

Hi,

I have a X86_64 machine. I have installed FC8. But I discovered that
with Mozilla, for instance, some webs, requiered to use some
plugins, like Shokewave-flash. But this extension is not available
for 64bits machine....

this machine will be used for webserver, but also as desktop
machine.. is this really reasonable to use a i386 version of FC8 on
a 64b machine ? Is there a real gain to use an 64b version ?
If you absolutely can't live without Flash in your browser you can
run the i386 version of Mozilla/Firefox/etc under your X86_64
installation.

Or you can look into nspluginwrapper.
Really ? I can download and run Mozilla for i386 on an X86-64 bit
machine ????

Yes. Architecture is upstream compatible. You can run 32bit software on
a 64bit install but not the other way around. There will be a
performance hit because you're loading and flushing registers that will
never be more than half full... but chances are you won't notice it.

I just download the TAR version of Mozilla (v 2.0.0.9) When I do :
./firefox-bin

-> Error while loading shared libraries : libmozjs.so: cannot open
shared object file: no such file or directory

and if you have a look into the directory of Firefox, this library
exists.. I even tried to do : chmod 777 libmozjs.so just in case... Do
you know what does it mean ??

I couldn't tell you how to install it correctly using the tar file. I
would suggest using yum.

Take a look at this thread:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/fedora-installation-39/installing-32bit-firefox-on-64bit-fedora-4-345264/

I haven't looked at F8 yet but the procedure should be the same.

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