Re: running 64 bit linux on the desktop
Hi Gilboa, I am not sure what you are saying different that what I suggested. See more inline below... On Dec 25, 2007 8:10 PM, Gilboa Davara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2007-12-24 at 22:07 +0200, Tom Rosenfeld wrote: Hi, I recently started working at a new firm that is using CentOS 4.5 64 bit on the desktop. We were having trouble with some standard programs and we just realized that they are related to the 64 vs. 32 bit issues. For example the flash plugin to firefox installed fine, but would not work. CentOS (Like RHEL and Fedora) is dual-arch - it installs both the 32bit and 64bit versions of most applications. I am using CentOS 4.5. As far as I see almost every app is 64 bits. There are 64 bit libs installed in /usr/lib64 vs. the 32 bit ones in /usr/lib. You'll need to start the -32bit- version of firefox. In-order to do it, you'll have to install the firefox-32 package (yum install firefox-32) and start the 32bit firefox by using the firefox-32 binary. My yum does not find any package called firefox-32. I had to install it manually with the tar from the firefox site. What repository can I find it in that supports Centos/RHEL? The best workaround I have found is to install the 32 bit firefox instead and then all the plugins work fine. Yikes. Don't. How is this different from your suggestion to install the 32 bit version via yum? Is anyone out there having the same troubles? Any suggestions? You may have to use the 32bit versions of xine/mplayer to view certain Windows-only-encoders, but other then that, nope. Thanks, -tom - Gilboa = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -tom 054-244-8025
Re: running 64 bit linux on the desktop
On Wed, 2007-12-26 at 10:40 +0200, Tom Rosenfeld wrote: CentOS (Like RHEL and Fedora) is dual-arch - it installs both the 32bit and 64bit versions of most applications. I am using CentOS 4.5. As far as I see almost every app is 64 bits. There are 64 bit libs installed in /usr/lib64 vs. the 32 bit ones in /usr/lib. Sorry. My mistake. I though it was CentOS 5. (I somehow missed the 4. part) CentOS4.x is indeed a bigger problem. My bad. (You may need to enable the i386 repositories and download the i386 RPMs.) - Gilboa = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: running 64 bit linux on the desktop
Yes I found the same plugin wrapper. It helps but does not seem to work all the time. I was having another problem with several 32 bit programs like ooffice (with the default install) and acroread. When I tried to run as a user authenticated thru LDAP (or NIS) I would get: GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown user id After a bit of searching I suspected the problem was that the libnss_ldap.so lib was 64 bits and thus not accessible to these 32 bit programs. I then installed the 32 bit versions via: # yum install nss_ldap.i386 So far it seems to have fixed the problem. Thanks, -tom On Dec 25, 2007 8:24 AM, Dan Kenigsberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 10:07:39PM +0200, Tom Rosenfeld wrote: Hi, I recently started working at a new firm that is using CentOS 4.5 64 bit on the desktop. We were having trouble with some standard programs and we just realized that they are related to the 64 vs. 32 bit issues. For example the flash plugin to firefox installed fine, but would not work. The best workaround I have found is to install the 32 bit firefox instead and then all the plugins work fine. In order to use 32 bit plugins on a 64 bit firefox you may try http://gwenole.beauchesne.info/en/projects/nspluginwrapper . Works for me. -- Dan Kenigsberg http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~dankenhttp://www.cs.technion.ac.il/%7Edanken ICQ 162180901 -- -tom 054-244-8025
Re: running 64 bit linux on the desktop
On Mon, 2007-12-24 at 22:07 +0200, Tom Rosenfeld wrote: Hi, I recently started working at a new firm that is using CentOS 4.5 64 bit on the desktop. We were having trouble with some standard programs and we just realized that they are related to the 64 vs. 32 bit issues. For example the flash plugin to firefox installed fine, but would not work. CentOS (Like RHEL and Fedora) is dual-arch - it installs both the 32bit and 64bit versions of most applications. You'll need to start the -32bit- version of firefox. In-order to do it, you'll have to install the firefox-32 package (yum install firefox-32) and start the 32bit firefox by using the firefox-32 binary. The best workaround I have found is to install the 32 bit firefox instead and then all the plugins work fine. Yikes. Don't. Is anyone out there having the same troubles? Any suggestions? You may have to use the 32bit versions of xine/mplayer to view certain Windows-only-encoders, but other then that, nope. Thanks, -tom - Gilboa = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: running 64 bit linux on the desktop
On Monday 24 December 2007, Tom Rosenfeld wrote: Hi, I recently started working at a new firm that is using CentOS 4.5 64 bit on the desktop. We were having trouble with some standard programs and we just realized that they are related to the 64 vs. 32 bit issues. For example the flash plugin to firefox installed fine, but would not work. The best workaround I have found is to install the 32 bit firefox instead and then all the plugins work fine. We are also having trouble running some other apps like open office. Running as a local user works fine, but running as a user from found in the LDAP dir causes a startup error about permissions. Is anyone out there having the same troubles? Any suggestions? Thanks, -tom Same like with firefox. Compile openoffice from source (http://go-oo.org), or use a 32bit openoffice package. I have used openoffice-bin in the past and am now using a the go-oo.org version. Both work fine, with slight preference to the latter. --yuval signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: running 64 bit linux on the desktop
On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 10:07:39PM +0200, Tom Rosenfeld wrote: Hi, I recently started working at a new firm that is using CentOS 4.5 64 bit on the desktop. We were having trouble with some standard programs and we just realized that they are related to the 64 vs. 32 bit issues. For example the flash plugin to firefox installed fine, but would not work. The best workaround I have found is to install the 32 bit firefox instead and then all the plugins work fine. In order to use 32 bit plugins on a 64 bit firefox you may try http://gwenole.beauchesne.info/en/projects/nspluginwrapper . Works for me. -- Dan Kenigsberghttp://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~dankenICQ 162180901 = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
