32-bit Firefox on x86_64 (FC5)...

Lenard · 10-23-2006, 11:11 AM

Are you running FC5 then download the FC5 firefox 32-bit rpm and if you have the 64-bit firefox rpm installed remove it first, the updated firefox-1.5.0.7 rpm (and others) can be found here;

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu...pdates/5/i386/

I'm currently running the RHEL5Beta1 (updated) which is based on the FC6 work with the 32-bit firefox rpm package with plugins installed (BTW, I'm using the 32-bit firefox to post this message), here's the list (partial I think but close enough to get you close) use it as a reference to get the 32-bit FC5 equivalents;

aalib-1.4.0-5.fc5.rf.i386.rpm
AdobeReader_enu-7.0.8-1.i386.rpm
compat-glibc-2.3.4-2.26.i386.rpm
compat-libgcc-296-2.96-138.i386.rpm
compat-libstdc++-296-2.96-138.i386.rpm
compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-61.i386.rpm
firefox-1.5.0.7-7.fc6.i386.rpm
gnome-desktop-2.15.4-1.i386.rpm
gnome-keyring-0.5.1-1.1.i386.rpm
gnome-menus-2.15.4.1-1.i386.rpm
gnome-vfs2-2.15.3-7.i386.rpm
gnome-vfs2-devel-2.15.3-7.i386.rpm
jre-1.5.0_09-fcs.i586.rpm
mencoder-1.0-0.28.pre8.fc5.i386.rpm
mplayer-1.0-0.28.pre8.fc5.i386.rpm
mplayer-codecs-20060611-2.i386.rpm
mplayer-codecs-extra-20060611-2.i386.rpm
mplayerplug-in-3.31-1.el4.rf.i386.rpm
seamonkey-1.0.5-1.fc6.i386.rpm
thunderbird-1.5.0.7-4.fc6.i386.rpm

You don't need to download any package you already have installed, but you need the 64-bit counterparts for the libs (think compat and gnome rpms). You may not want to use yum for this, just download what you need into a common location and use rpm (as root or equivalent) to install after testing to make sure you have everything needed;

rpm -Uvh *.rpm --test

Remove the --test switch when all the requirements are satified to really install.

DyingMuppet · 10-23-2006, 11:35 AM

Ok I will try it in some way

I tried using Firefox via Wine but that is so ugly :r

Grtzz DM

webranger · 10-23-2006, 01:19 PM

Quote:

or is it because i'm still in gnome?

Yeah, that's part of it. When I made it work, I found out I broke a bunch of other stuff.

DyingMuppet · 10-24-2006, 05:32 AM

Hmm.. I think I have firefox 32-bit installed by now but I don't know for sure in firefox help info there it says:

Code:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); nl; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060913 Fedora/1.5.0.7-1.fc5 Firefox/1.5.0.7 pango-text

DyingMuppet · 10-24-2006, 05:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DyingMuppet

Hmm.. I think I have firefox 32-bit installed by now but I don't know for sure in firefox help info there it says:

Code:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); nl; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060913 Fedora/1.5.0.7-1.fc5 Firefox/1.5.0.7 pango-text

ohh wait there's nothing to be afraid of I just ran

Code:

[root@DyingMuppet ~]# yum remove firefox
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Remove Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package firefox.i386 0:1.5.0.7-1.fc5 set to be erased
--> Running transaction check

Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================
 Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
=============================================================================
Removing:
 firefox                 i386       1.5.0.7-1.fc5    installed          36 M

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install      0 Package(s)
Update       0 Package(s)
Remove       1 Package(s)
Is this ok [y/N]: N
Exiting on user Command
Complete!
[root@DyingMuppet ~]#

so for now it looks like I'm done

Grtzz DM

DyingMuppet · 10-24-2006, 05:42 AM

Ohh yeah BTW firefox 2.0 is out in a short time...
have I now installed FF1.5 for none?