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On 8/16/2010 2:13 PM, Stéphane Guedon wrote: |
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> I have read several things about this, but never really solved ! |
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> Can I emerge a 32bits software on 64bits platform with a multilib profile ? |
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> All my web browsers (konqueror, opera, chromium, firefox) are 64bits, whereas |
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> flash player exist currently in 32bits. So, I need to have 32bits browser ! Can |
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> I emerge ? |
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* There are a few binary packages in Portage that are 32-bit binaries. |
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In your case, specifically, there is firefox-bin and chromium-bin. |
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Those should emerge and run fine on a multilib system, after emerging |
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the correct 32-bit compatibility packages. Note that Flash will run *a |
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lot* slower than you're probably used to in this setup. |
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* For other web browsers, you could build your own 32-bit software on |
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the 64-bit system. That's trickier, but there is a cross-dev system |
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available in portage you can use to ease the pain a bit. Personally I'd |
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just go with one of the binary browser packages. |
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* You could try using the nspluginwrapper package, which was built just |
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for this purpose (loading 32-bit plugins into a 64-bit browser). Flash |
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only worked sporadically for me under nspluginwrapper, but apparently |
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others have a lot of success with it. |
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* Or, you can do what I did, and mask off adobe-flash-10.0.53*, so you |
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will still have the 64-bit Flash Player available until Adobe gets their |
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act together and releases a newer version. It limits you to those Flash |
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applications where you already know and trust the publisher, since |
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there's a list as long as my arm of security fixes in 10.0.53.64, but |
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that's good enough for me for now. |
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