On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 12:14 +0100, Alexander Volovics wrote:
> I was checking things in preparation of removing firefox.x86_64 and
> installing firefox.i386 on my x86_64 machine when I discovered that
> both are already installed:
>
> $ rpm -qa --qf '%{name}-%{version}-%{arch}\n' firefox
> firefox-1.5.0.7-x86_64
> firefox-1.5.0.7-i386
>
> but then also:
>
> $ rpm -qf /usr/bin/firefox
> firefox-1.5.0.7-8.fc6
> firefox-1.5.0.7-8.fc6
>
> I suspect that firefox.x86_64 gets started though I have'nt
> quite discovered how yet.
>
> What happens if I install i386 plugins?
> Does some kind of magic happen to make firefox.i386 startup then.
> It might be that the shell script /usr/bin/firefox produces the magic
> but I am no great hero when it come to parsing shell scripts.
>
> Or do I have to remove firefox.x86_64 first?
>
Remove the x86_64 version. Then only the i386 version will be available
and plugin install should be straight forward with no chance for errors
based on the arch.
> Alexander
>
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