Re: running 32bit Firefox on SL5.x x86_64 machines: Flash?
Bad practice to respond to my own post: Actually, since yesterday the 32 bits flash plugin (now version 10...36) crashed firefox 32 bits on an x86 _64 machine. Anyone seen similar problems? Can't test a 32 bits machine, sinc e I have none left :-) Niels
Re: running 32bit Firefox on SL5.x x86_64 machines
J S Jayakumar wrote: Dear All, As you know, on starting Firefox on x86_64 machines, by default the 64bit version starts. This version does not support lava fully and hence many sites are not displayed properly. How to start the 32 bit Firefox on such systems. Jayakumar. yum remove firefox\* yum install firefox.i386 Then you only have the 32 bit version installed, and only the 32 bit version will come up. Troy -- __ Troy Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/LCSI/CSI DSS Group __
Re: running 32bit Firefox on SL5.x x86_64 machines: Flash?
On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Niels Walet wrote: Bad practice to respond to my own post: Actually, since yesterday the 32 bits flash plugin (now version 10...36) crashed firefox 32 bits on an x86 _64 A colleague here solved this by installing curl.i386 . machine. Anyone seen similar problems? Can't test a 32 bits machine, since I have none left :-) Maybe it's time to try harder to run the 64bit browser. The java plugin problem should be solved with openjdk. Most others seem to work well with nspluginwrapper. Regards, Stephan -- Stephan Wiesand DESY - DV - Platanenallee 6 15738 Zeuthen, Germany
Re: running 32bit Firefox on SL5.x x86_64 machines
I disagree; it works fine on our machines. The only niggle is that you need to uninstall 64 bits java and reinstall 32 bits (since the 64 bits install seems to overwrite the 32 bit one in part s). That also means everything that depends on it, which can be painful. I also have modified the /usr/bin/firefox start-up script so that it look s in the right place for the plugin directories; by default it wraps the 32 bit plugins for the 64 bits version/ Niels
Re: running 32bit Firefox on SL5.x x86_64 machines
Hi Jayakumar, J S Jayakumar wrote: Dear All, As you know, on starting Firefox on x86_64 machines, by default the 64bit version starts. This version does not support lava fully and hence many sites are not displayed properly. How to start the 32 bit Firefox on such systems. I hae found no way to do it. First of you would have to install the 32 bit version. That is the easy part. But then it does conflict with the 64bit evolution packages. The dependencies for these do not specify the architecture, so for yum, rpm etc the 64 bit versions that are already installed appear to be fine. But the 32 bit firefox does not work with them. Ok, I thought, remove the 64 bit evolution stuff and install the 32 bit versions. That can be done, but it does not work. Some methods are not found. I had also tried to install the 64bit and the 32bit evolution stuff in parallel. That needs some rpm options to achieve that, but also that does not help. So I gave up on this... Matthias Jayakumar.
Re: running 32bit Firefox on SL5.x x86_64 machines
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A user level install is always a fallback. Simply copying the release from www.mozilla.org yields a version the user can install and maintain in their own personal area. It automatically updates itself so keeping it up to date does not require the yum updating mechanism. Matthias Schroeder wrote: Hi Jayakumar, J S Jayakumar wrote: Dear All, As you know, on starting Firefox on x86_64 machines, by default the 64bit version starts. This version does not support lava fully and hence many sites are not displayed properly. How to start the 32 bit Firefox on such systems. I hae found no way to do it. First of you would have to install the 32 bit version. That is the easy part. But then it does conflict with the 64bit evolution packages. The dependencies for these do not specify the architecture, so for yum, rpm etc the 64 bit versions that are already installed appear to be fine. But the 32 bit firefox does not work with them. Ok, I thought, remove the 64 bit evolution stuff and install the 32 bit versions. That can be done, but it does not work. Some methods are not found. I had also tried to install the 64bit and the 32bit evolution stuff in parallel. That needs some rpm options to achieve that, but also that does not help. So I gave up on this... Matthias Jayakumar. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFI9KNcOMIGC6x7/XQRAuwxAJ4j4kUBTvRMR6eP1AMiOZh6ph2eCQCfeFDf ZKOq2fxqNn+3bv5FR+mPjU8= =A/he -END PGP SIGNATURE- begin:vcard fn:Robert Blair n:Blair;Robert org:Argonne National Lab;HEP adr:;;9700 S. Cass Ave.;Argonne;IL;60439;USA email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] tel;work:630-252-7545 tel;fax:630-252-5782 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.hep.anl.gov/reb version:2.1 end:vcard smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
