yelp 64-bit and/or dependency question
Chris G
cl at isbd.net
Fri Nov 9 09:31:13 UTC 2007
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 07:04:14PM -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> Chris G wrote:
>> I'm running Fedora 7 on an Intelr Core 2 Duo based system so the
>> Fedora install gave me 64-bit libraries etc.
>> I'm running a 32-bit Firefox on this system as there are some plugins
>> I need that are only available for 32-bit still.
>> In order that I get the 32-bit Firefox to run the 64-bit one needs to
>> be removed, OK, no problem I think. However there is a problem,
>> uninstalling the 64-bit Firefox takes yelp with it. In addition there
>> doesn't seem to be a 32-bit yelp, or at least I'm not offered one to
>> install.
>> So, *is* there a 32-bit yelp and, if so, how can I get it installed?
>
> One solution that worked well for me, was to grab the Fedora 8
> nspluginwrapper src.rpm package and rebuild it for Fedora 7 and install
> that. That got me up and running with 32bit flash-plugin in 64bit firefox.
>
> On Fedora 8/x86_64, nspluginwrapper appears to be installed by default.
> After installing Adobe's flash rpm, I just had to run
> "mozilla-plugin-config" once and restart firefox. Flash seems to work like
> a charm so far at least for youtube videos.
>
Flash is a long way down my priorites for plugins. My two main
priorities are first the Acrobat Reader plugin and then Java.
--
Chris Green
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