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
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