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On Jan 26, 2008 11:33 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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> Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> > On Jan 26, 2008 11:05 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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> > |
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> > <SNIP> |
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> > |
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> > This is likely the culprit: |
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> > |
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> > lightning ~ # eix nspluginwrapper |
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> > [I] net-www/nspluginwrapper |
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> > Available versions: 0.9.91.4 ~0.9.91.5 ~0.9.91.5-r1 |
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> > Installed versions: 0.9.91.4(12:21:31 PM 11/12/2007) |
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> > Homepage: http://www.gibix.net/projects/nspluginwrapper/ |
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> > Description: Netscape Plugin Wrapper - Load 32bit plugins |
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> > on 64bit browser |
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> > |
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> > lightning ~ # emerge -pv nspluginwrapper |
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> > |
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> > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: |
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> > |
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> > Calculating dependencies... done! |
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> > [ebuild R ] net-www/nspluginwrapper-0.9.91.4 0 kB |
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> > |
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> > Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB |
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> > lightning ~ # |
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> |
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> # emerge -pv nspluginwrapper |
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> |
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> These are the packages that would be merged, in order: |
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> |
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> Calculating dependencies... done! |
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> [ebuild R ] net-www/nspluginwrapper-0.9.91.5-r1 0 kB |
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> |
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> Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB |
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> DreamScape ~ # |
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> Well ... I uninstalled mozilla-firefox and installed |
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> mozilla-firefox-bin. It said, "NB -- you are installing a 32-bit |
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> Firefox". The good news is that it works with Java and the R search |
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> engine! The bad news is that it doesn't have all the *other* plugins |
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> that the 64-bit compiled Firefox did. Do I need to re-emerge them? Will |
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> revdep-rebuild clean this up? |
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This is the age old problem, as far as I know, with 64-bit Linux and a |
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world full of 32-bit multimedia. I think this wiki will surely |
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explain it better than I ever could. Hopefully the basic info you need |
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is there: |
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http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_firefox_with_java_on_amd64 |
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I will say that my experience is that so far no single browser/plugin |
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combination works as well for all web media types as our 32-bit |
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brethren have, and that doesn't work as well as Windows. There are |
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issues with Java, Flash support, mplayer and other plugins for |
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streaming file types, so the answer is no one answer seems to be right |
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for everyone. My setup work *ok* for me, not well. I'm not happy with |
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it but I'm not motivated enough to change things. I trade stocks on a |
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Windows laptop so I use that machine for the numerous things I cannot |
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do on Linux, 32-bit or 64-bit. |
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Hope this helps, |
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Mark |
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