Hi Gilboa, I am not sure what you are saying different that what I suggested. See more inline below...
On Dec 25, 2007 8:10 PM, Gilboa Davara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-12-24 at 22:07 +0200, 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. > > CentOS (Like RHEL and Fedora) is dual-arch - it installs both the 32bit > and 64bit versions of most applications. I am using CentOS 4.5. As far as I see almost every app is 64 bits. There are 64 bit libs installed in /usr/lib64 vs. the 32 bit ones in /usr/lib. > > > You'll need to start the -32bit- version of firefox. > In-order to do it, you'll have to install the firefox-32 package (yum > install firefox-32) and start the 32bit firefox by using the firefox-32 > binary. > My yum does not find any package called "firefox-32". I had to install it manually with the tar from the firefox site. What repository can I find it in that supports Centos/RHEL? > > The best workaround I have found is to install the 32 bit firefox > > instead and then all the plugins work fine. > > Yikes. Don't. > How is this different from your suggestion to install the 32 bit version via yum? > > > Is anyone out there having the same troubles? Any suggestions? > > You may have to use the 32bit versions of xine/mplayer to view certain > Windows-only-encoders, but other then that, nope. > > > > Thanks, > > -tom > > - Gilboa > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- -tom 054-244-8025
