I was interested to see that Firefox java and flash plugins aren't
available in x86_64.
Does this explain why flash and/or java plugins aren't working on my
Centos 5 x86_64 installation. If I go to (say) you-tube - it tells me I
don't have the latest flash player - or don't have java enabled. If I
follow their instructions on installing them - it tells me they are
already installed.
Anyone else found this - and found a solution?
Thanks
Richard.
Johnny Hughes wrote:
Alexx wrote:
During last update packets pidgin and libpurple were updated while "yum
update"-ing
Is it a common and normal thing that both x86_64 and i386 arch rpms are
installed during update? This not the first time.
Sort of ...
If the i386 items were installed before, then yes, they will be updated.
The x86_64 tree has x86_64 and i386 rpms in it, this is by design (of
upstream). I personally like the Debian approach for this (make them
totally separate distros and don't mix them).
There are some programs that are not available on x86_64 ... though in
CentOS-5 there are less of them.
Java and Flash plugins for mozilla/firefox are some.
You can add this to your .rpmmacros (create it if it does not exist in
your home directory):
%_query_all_fmt %%{name}-%%{version}-%%{release}.%%{arch}
Now you can use RPM to see which i[3,5,6]86 rpms are installed ... like
this:
rpm -qa | grep 'i[3,5,6]86'
If you have x86_64 rpms for all these, you can remove the i[3,5,6]86
versions if you want to.
The bottom line, you can have both without problem ... though I don't
normally do x86_64 on workstations.
Thanks,
Johnny Hughes
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