I once had firefox x86_64 installed (because it was the default).
But that one has problems with plugins (flash, java), which are
much easily solved by using the i386 version.
So I unstalled firefox, and installed it again using:
yum install firefox.i386
This worked, and even the plugins worked fine afterwards.
I did have some problems when uninstalling, because yum insisted
on a whole load of dependencies going up to uninstalling the package
'firstboot' (wow!). However I can't remember the exact details anymore.
I do not remember having to force anything; just reinstall a little
bit more than I was expecting to.
I do remember that after the erase/install, no particular problems
were left and I used firefox since then without any problems.
Today came the update for firefox 3.0.2.
So I did "yum update". The depencies included xulrunner and devhelp.
However, yum complained about a conflict between xulrunner 1.9.0.1
being incompatible. So I erased xulrunner first (yum erase xulrunner).
And then installed firefox again:
yum install firefox.i386
it pulls in xulrunner as well, but two different versions for two different
architectures (???):
=============================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
=============================================================================
Installing:
firefox i386 3.0.2-3.el5.centos updates 11 M
Installing for dependencies:
xulrunner x86_64 1.9.0.2-5.el5 updates 10 M
xulrunner i386 1.9.0.1-1.el5_2 updates 10 M
and afterwards firefox complains:
$ firefox
Could not find compatible GRE between version 1.9.0.2 and 1.9.0.2.
Any idea how to fix the fox?
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