On Jan 26, 2008 11:33 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Jan 26, 2008 11:05 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > <SNIP> > > > > This is likely the culprit: > > > > lightning ~ # eix nspluginwrapper > > [I] net-www/nspluginwrapper > > Available versions: 0.9.91.4 ~0.9.91.5 ~0.9.91.5-r1 > > Installed versions: 0.9.91.4(12:21:31 PM 11/12/2007) > > Homepage: http://www.gibix.net/projects/nspluginwrapper/ > > Description: Netscape Plugin Wrapper - Load 32bit plugins > > on 64bit browser > > > > lightning ~ # emerge -pv nspluginwrapper > > > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > > > Calculating dependencies... done! > > [ebuild R ] net-www/nspluginwrapper-0.9.91.4 0 kB > > > > Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB > > lightning ~ # > > # emerge -pv nspluginwrapper > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > [ebuild R ] net-www/nspluginwrapper-0.9.91.5-r1 0 kB > > Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB > DreamScape ~ # > > Well ... I uninstalled mozilla-firefox and installed > mozilla-firefox-bin. It said, "NB -- you are installing a 32-bit > Firefox". The good news is that it works with Java and the R search > engine! The bad news is that it doesn't have all the *other* plugins > that the 64-bit compiled Firefox did. Do I need to re-emerge them? Will > revdep-rebuild clean this up?
This is the age old problem, as far as I know, with 64-bit Linux and a world full of 32-bit multimedia. I think this wiki will surely explain it better than I ever could. Hopefully the basic info you need is there: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_firefox_with_java_on_amd64 I will say that my experience is that so far no single browser/plugin combination works as well for all web media types as our 32-bit brethren have, and that doesn't work as well as Windows. There are issues with Java, Flash support, mplayer and other plugins for streaming file types, so the answer is no one answer seems to be right for everyone. My setup work *ok* for me, not well. I'm not happy with it but I'm not motivated enough to change things. I trade stocks on a Windows laptop so I use that machine for the numerous things I cannot do on Linux, 32-bit or 64-bit. Hope this helps, Mark -- [email protected] mailing list
