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From: Johannes Kimmel <johannes.kimmel@gmx.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge 32bits on 64bits platform
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 21:39:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C6993E1.3020700@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201008162013.41980.stephane@22decembre.eu>

On 08/16/2010 08:13 PM, Stéphane Guedon wrote:
> I have read several things about this, but never really solved !
>
> Can I emerge a 32bits software on 64bits platform with a multilib profile ?
>
> All my web browsers (konqueror, opera, chromium, firefox) are 64bits, whereas
> flash player exist currently in 32bits. So, I need to have 32bits browser ! Can
> I emerge ?
>
> Thanks !

Not exactly. You can use www-plugins/nspluginwrapper to use 32bit 
plugins in a 64bit browser.
But yes, you can emerge www-client/firefox-bin. This is a precompiled 
32bit firefox, that runs the flashplugin without nspluginwrapper.

That should at least answer one question :)

Greetings

Johannes Kimmel



  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-16 19:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-16 18:13 [gentoo-user] emerge 32bits on 64bits platform Stéphane Guedon
2010-08-16 19:39 ` Johannes Kimmel [this message]
2010-08-16 19:47   ` Stéphane Guedon
2010-08-16 20:32     ` Bill Longman
2010-08-17  7:24 ` Jesús J. Guerrero Botella
2010-08-17  8:13   ` Alan McKinnon
2010-08-17 13:43 ` Mike Edenfield
2010-08-17 19:24   ` Bill Longman
2010-08-18 14:52     ` Stéphane Guedon
2010-08-18 23:26 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2010-08-20 15:56   ` Enrico Weigelt

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