New subject: Installing i386 packages via yum on a x86_64 F9 based system

Thursday, 31 July 2008

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 From: Giovanni Cucca <giovanni.cucca(a)gmail.com&gt;
 To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list(a)redhat.com&gt;
 Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 1:02:26 PM
 Subject: Re: Installing i386 packages via yum on a x86_64 F9 based system

 Il Thursday 31 July 2008 20:00:23 Ubence Quevedo ha scritto:
 > I think I'll have to do a combination of yum search, yum list, and
 > possibly rpmfind.net to get the packages I need.  I just wish it were
 > easier to use yum to find what I want without having to do so much!
 >
 > Thanx for the response...
 >
 > -Ubence

 Maybe I have a (dirty) solution in mind: you can grab the firefox i386 
 RPM from a mirror, like 

http://fedora.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/fedora/linux/updates/9/i386/firefox-...

 and then yum localinstall /path/to/firefox-3.0.1-1.fc9.i386, it will 
 try to resolve dependencies automatically.
 I don't really know if it will work, but if you really, really want a 
 32-bit firefox maybe you can try and pray $DEITY that it work :P

 Giovanni
 -- 
 Fedora release 9 (Sulphur)
 2.6.25.11-97.fc9.x86_64 
Actually, I had this working perfectly before I reformatted my system using the Firefox
that I downloaded from Mozilla's website, I just couldn't remember how I resolved
the dependencies through yum to get the i386 libraries that I needed.  Plus I like running
the Mozilla original Firefox instead of the Fedora rolled Firefox, at least I feel I have
a little more control of the settings and what not.  I also don't mind doing some
manual dependency hunting, it reminds me of the old days...[as sadistic as that sounds].

heh...$DEITY...that never gets old.  :^)

-Ubence