x86_64 browsers

Albert A. Modderkolk mdd at advwebsys.com
Thu Oct 6 23:53:19 UTC 2005


Same here.  No matches when I tried a "yum search opera".  When I
changed exactarch=1 to 0 in /etc/yum.conf I got zillions of pages.  No
way I am going to blindly install all that, although I have some trust
in yum.

Albert

On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 19:20 -0400, Graham Campbell wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 00:44 +0200, Thomas Zehetbauer wrote:
> > On 2005-10-06 | 18:18:05, Graham Campbell wrote:
> > >I am the proud owner of a new dual core AMD 64-bit system and am
> > >fighting to get it into shape to replace my old system. I am currently
> > >fighting the browser plug-in situation. Is there any tutorial,
> > >white-paper or the like that someone can point me to to do this?
> > 
> > I am running a dual Opteron system and use 64-bit firefox as my primary 
> > browser. I am almost glad that there are no plugins because most flash 
> > applets are spam anyway. If I really happen to hit a page that needs 
> > flash or java I copy the URL to 32-bit Opera.
> 
> My problem is that one of the main sites that I need to access makes
> heavy use of DjVu images. DjVuLibre does not have a 64-bit version and
> the source will not compile (bug filed on it).
> 
> How do you get a running 32-bit Opera? I tried installing the rpm from
> the Opera site, and it comes up with run-time errors involving shared
> libraries.
> -- 
> Graham Campbell <gc1111 at optonline.net>
> 




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