I just installed the unofficial amd64 port of Debian sarge. So far, everything works except Firefox. The latest package is 1.0.4, the binary from mozilla.com is for i686, and the source won't compile. Here's the last two lines of output after running ./configure --enable-application=browser

What am I missing? There are no packages with "lxt" in the name, and I have the development versions of all the X libraries I can find.

All Debian amd64 distributions are pure 64bit, "no 32bit applications", you may have noticed there is no open office which has not been ported to 64bit yet, firefox2 from source is 32bit. You can however set up a chroot to use 32bit applications in. Section 8.6.35:

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/re....html#s-chroot

You're missing libxt or more correctly libxt-dev.

You can build a 64-bit version of Firefox2 (or OpenOffice) on a "pure 64bit" AMD64 system. Of course, there aren't 64-bit versions of many plugins so keep that in mind too. Here are some build instructions for Firefox2 to get you started -> http://cblfs.cross-lfs.org/index.php/Firefox.

BTW, AMD64 is x86_64 and x86_64 is considered a multilib architecture. If your OS is standards compliant it should have */lib (for 32-bit libraries) and */lib64 (for 64-bit libraries). There doesn't have to be any files in */lib (pure 64bit?) however. If you want to use a 32-bit application, then you need any dependent 32-bit libraries in */lib, not a chroot. Of course, if you're not interested in standards compliance, then you can do whatever you want .

BTW2, typically Firefox is built using a .mozconfig file, not ./configure.

It appears I did not interpret correctly what I read in this article, it confirms what you say:

http://www.debian.org/ports/amd64/

I have Etch, it comes with Iceweasel which is firefox, the version I have is 2.0.0.3, but you're probably after flash which is only supported in 32bit (for some distributions).

I have been using 64-bit Etch for over a year. It has OpenOffice and IceWeasel 2.0, pure 64 bit, and they work fine. The issues are Flash, Java applets, and w32codecs ... Everything else is there. There is no Flash, Java plugin, or w32codecs for any 64-bit system, not even Windows as far as I know.

I use Gnash for Flash, some of the new gstreamer codecs are getting better at reading .wmv files, and Konqueror doesn't need a plugin to handle Java applets. (I use Gnome, but have Konqueror installed specifically for that reason)

I'm now confused, the original article I read is below, I guess it matters which distribution you have, as it appears you need the chroot for Etch. The article I posted earlier is from 2005.

https://alioth.debian.org/docman/vie...d64-howto.html

EDIT: I did notice open office in synaptic.

EDIT 2: Because I had Sarge in 32bit, I would not even consider installing that old thing after having Etch.

I upgraded my system to official amd64-etch and got iceweasel out of the deal. I also found a tutorial on how to set up 32-bit firefox with plugins on Ubuntu. Now I have two browsers: Iceweasel 2.0.0.3 and Firefox32 1.5.7. It's not great, but I can use Iceweasel for normal browsing and Firefox32 for Flash/Java.

Etch is a little more modern heh!
It is now my official best distribution, I only do updates now in the others. I'm on dial-up, so flash is not a great deal, I like it when my browser opens pages faster not having to take the extra little time to download the flashy advertisements also. Some day maybe, an ISP will give me a chance to get on the broadband wagon, not today though.

A little off topic, but you might try adding these lines to your /etc/hosts file to speed things up even more:

127.0.0.1 doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 ad.ca.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 adremote.timeinc.net
127.0.0.1 adsremote.scripps.net
127.0.0.1 a.as-us.falkag.net
127.0.0.1 interclick.com
127.0.0.1 a1.interclick.com
127.0.0.1 media.fastclick.net
127.0.0.1 network.realmedia.com

I don't have an /etc/hosts file...