x86_64 Issues?

jim lawrence fedorajim at gmail.com
Tue Mar 8 15:10:31 UTC 2005


On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 15:01:47 +0000, Thiago Guzella
<thiago.guzella at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, I have been running FC2/FC3 on a x86_64 box for roughly 6 months now, so:
> 
> > 1.  no flash player for firefox
> you can TRY to live with swfdec (check freshrpms.net) until macromedia
> finally releases a 64 bit version
> 
> > 2. java plugin won't work
> we will have to wait... the last resort would be to run a 32-bit
> version of firefox...

i was trying to help another user last night to install the i686
version of firefox but it wouldn't install for him.  Don't remember
what the issue was.
 
> > 3. broken applications ??
> i haven't seen any broken ones...
> 
> > 4.  ???
> also, the fact that you MAY have to build rpm packages out of source
> rpms for programs that don't provide 64-bit ready binaries.

Maybe FC4 will be better suited for the _64 bit arch.  

Thanks for the reply

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