weird firefox problem

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

Am Dienstag, den 16.05.2006, 09:44 +0100 schrieb Andy Green:
> Steven Pritchard wrote:
> > On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 02:02:55PM +0200, Erwin Rol wrote:
> >> BTW this is a 64bit AMD system.
> > Same here, but I'm running a 32-bit firefox.
> 
> Me too... there's a little gotcha there for updates actually... if you 
> stick the i386 version of firefox on an x86_64 install then it won't get 
> updated by yum update, since the yum.repos.d files are pointing to the 
> x86_64 repos... I just updated mine by hand and we'll see if its any better.

Add a yum repo file to /etc/yum.repos.d with something like the below to
get automatic updates for a i386 firefox on a x86_64 machine.

---
[core-i386]
enabled=1
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/i386/os/
gpgcheck=1
failovermethod=priority
includepkgs=firefox libgnomeui libbonoboui libgnome

[updates-released-i386]
enabled=1
name=Fedora Core $releasever - i386 - Released Updates
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/i386/
gpgcheck=1
failovermethod=priority
includepkgs=firefox libgnomeui libbonoboui libgnome

---
But this is getting off topic here on the list.

CU
thl