Firefox and 64-bit.

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

Am Sonntag, den 06.11.2005, 18:55 -0600 schrieb Jonathan Berry:
> On 11/6/05, Erik P. Olsen <erik at epo.dk> wrote:
> > I have installed Firefox 1.0.7 on FC4 which is a 64-bit version. I have
> > also installer Java 1.5.0.05, 64-bit version, but there was no plugin in
> 
> Correct.  There is no 64-bit Java browser plugin yet, only 32-bit.

Blackdown has a 64bit-plugin that I once got to work on FC4:

$ wget ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/languages/java/linux/JDK-1.4.2/amd64/02/j2re-1.4.2-02-linux-amd64.bin
$ bash j2re-1.4.2-02-linux-amd64.bin
$ ls ./j2re1.4.2/plugin/amd64/mozilla/libjavaplugin_oji.so

But I chose to run a i386-Firefox on FC4-x64. That's quite easy:

- add a file /etc/yum.repos.d/i386-firefox with this content:

[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

- run
yum remove firefox
yum install firefox.i386

Hope this helps.

CU
thl