Why is there no 32 bit version of firefox available for 64bit F12?

Gianluca Sforna giallu at gmail.com
Fri Nov 27 13:24:02 UTC 2009


On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 6:44 AM, Paolo Galtieri <pgaltieri at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm having strange behaviour with 64bit firefox and the 64bit beta version
> of Adobe flash.  So I want to try the 32bit version of firefox with the
> 32bit flash from Adobe, but there in 32 bit version of firefox available
> through the 64bit repositories.  If I try the 32bit version of firefox from
> firefox.com it crashes all the time running the 32bit Adobe flash.

I am not sure this is applicable to all packages without side effects,
but usually:
yum install package.i686
brings in the 32bit package and all its dependencies.

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