Firefox and 64-bit.

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

Am Montag, den 07.11.2005, 12:22 -0500 schrieb David-Paul Niner:
> Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > 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.
> > 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

> After reading through your post I decided to axe my 64-bit version of
> Firefox and install the 32-bit version (to get the Java plugin working
> correctly).   Creating the file described above I receive the following
> message when trying to install firefox.i386: [...]

Sorry, my fault -- the file needs to be named 

/etc/yum.repos.d/i386-firefox.repo

(Note the .repo at the end)
-- 
Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info>