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

[Ubence Quevedo <r0d3nt pacbell net>]

On Jul 31, 2008, at 01:11 PM, Ubence Quevedo wrote:

> ----- Original Message ----
>
> > From: Giovanni Cucca <giovanni cucca gmail com>
> > To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list redhat com>
> > 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-3.0.1-1.fc9.i386.rpm
> >
> > 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
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For any that are interested, I installed the following i386 packages  
on 64-Bit F9 to get Firefox 32-Bit from the Mozilla web site to work:

yum install bug-buddy.i386 libXt.i386 gtk-nodoka-engine.i386

There were a lot of dependencies that were installed with bug-buddy  
[probably the majority of what I needed anyway].

Hope this helps someone out there.

-Ubence