FC4 x86_64 + new questions

[Gilboa Davara]

On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 12:49 +0100, François Patte wrote:
> Gilboa Davara a écrit :
> > On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 12:02 +0100, François Patte wrote:
> > 
> >>Bonjour,
> >>
> >>I installed FC4 x86_64 and I'm wondering if i386 applications can be run
> >>on it and, if yes, how?
> > 
> > 
> > Yes.
> > Using i386 libraries. (installed by default)
> > 
> > 
> >>My problem is that there are no recognized plugins for mozilla/firefox
> >>(or I don't know where to download the plugins). There is a directory:
> >>/usr/lib64/firefox-1.0.7/plugins (and same for mozilla), but making
> >>symbolic links in these directories is totally useless....
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > Known problem.
> > If you want to use i386 only plug-ins (such as flash), you'll need to
> > manually install the i386 version of firefox/mozilla.
> 
> Thanks for your answer. I tried this, but there are some "failed 
> dependancies"...


Try to install them manually.

> 
> So, my next question is: is possible to tell yum to install specific 
> i386 packages (with right dependancies of course!)?

No that I know of.
You'll have to manually install the i386 compat libraries and firefox.

> 
> It seems also, that xmms is not working: I have only 2 output plugins: 
> arts and crossfade. With the first one xmms complains that it cannot 
> connect a arts server, the second one kills xmms...

Bugzilla?

> 
> 
> > 
> > Gilboa
> > P.S. Please, please, please stop PGP'ing your messages. It makes it very
> > hard to read them.
> 
> I promise...!

Thanks.

Gilboa