Installing i386 packages via yum on a x86_64 F9 based system

[Giovanni Cucca]

Il Thursday 31 July 2008 16:48:46 Ubence Quevedo ha scritto:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I recently reformatted my x86_64 F9 based system, and somehow before
> the format I was able to install i386 packages via yum [I forgot
> exactly how I did this].  Now after the reformat, when I try to
> specify i386 packages to install [yum list *.i386], I get no results
> returned.  Is there a specific repo I need to enable to access the
> i386 packages?  The reason for this question is because I manually
> installed the x86 version of Firefox, and the required libraries and
> files to run i386 Firefox aren't installed as part of the x86_64
> install.
>
> Can someone please advise on how I can install i386 packages via yum
> on a x86_64 based system?
>
> Thanx!
>
> -Ubence

[oneiros at sincity ~]$ yum list | grep i386
OpenEXR-libs.i386                        1.6.1-3.fc9            
installed
adobe-release-i386.noarch                1.0-1                  
installed
alsa-lib.i386                            1.0.16-3.fc9           
installed

[snip]

zvbi-devel.i386                          0.2.30-1.fc9           fedora
zziplib.i386                             0.13.49-5.fc9          fedora
zziplib-devel.i386                       0.13.49-5.fc9          fedora

There are plenty of i386 packages in the Fedora repos, but firefox isn't 
there, or at least I didn't find it (I use Konqueror anyway :P).
If you're searching 32-bit Firefox for the plugins (i.e. the Flash 
plugin) you can always use one of the free plugins avilable (Gnash or 
swfdec) or the proprietary plugin via nspluginwrapper (you can follow 
the guide here: http://fedora64.org/solved/browser-solutions/flash ).
If you have other uses for 32-bit Firefox, well, then I don know :P

Giovanni
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Fedora release 9 (Sulphur)
2.6.25.11-97.fc9.x86_64
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