From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OlMSI-0002z6-1m for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:43:54 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 98351E0A76; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:43:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.informasoftware.com (173.221.47.101.nw.nuvox.net [173.221.47.101]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63A8AE0A76 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:43:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.100.48] ([192.168.100.48] RDNS failed) by mail.informasoftware.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:43:11 -0400 Message-ID: <4C6A91EF.5010306@kutulu.org> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:43:11 -0400 From: Mike Edenfield User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.2 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org CC: =?UTF-8?B?U3TDqXBoYW5lIEd1ZWRvbg==?= Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge 32bits on 64bits platform References: <201008162013.41980.stephane@22decembre.eu> In-Reply-To: <201008162013.41980.stephane@22decembre.eu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 Aug 2010 13:43:11.0798 (UTC) FILETIME=[226B4560:01CB3E12] Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: b54ee45b-279e-4023-9136-10b6d94447f9 X-Archives-Hash: b5d2c7d50ddef39db149f262ad0b6442 On 8/16/2010 2:13 PM, St=C3=A9phane Guedon wrote: > I have read several things about this, but never really solved ! >=20 > Can I emerge a 32bits software on 64bits platform with a multilib profi= le ? >=20 > All my web browsers (konqueror, opera, chromium, firefox) are 64bits, w= hereas=20 > flash player exist currently in 32bits. So, I need to have 32bits brows= er ! Can=20 > I emerge ? * There are a few binary packages in Portage that are 32-bit binaries. In your case, specifically, there is firefox-bin and chromium-bin. Those should emerge and run fine on a multilib system, after emerging the correct 32-bit compatibility packages. Note that Flash will run *a lot* slower than you're probably used to in this setup. * For other web browsers, you could build your own 32-bit software on the 64-bit system. That's trickier, but there is a cross-dev system available in portage you can use to ease the pain a bit. Personally I'd just go with one of the binary browser packages. * You could try using the nspluginwrapper package, which was built just for this purpose (loading 32-bit plugins into a 64-bit browser). Flash only worked sporadically for me under nspluginwrapper, but apparently others have a lot of success with it. * Or, you can do what I did, and mask off adobe-flash-10.0.53*, so you will still have the 64-bit Flash Player available until Adobe gets their act together and releases a newer version. It limits you to those Flash applications where you already know and trust the publisher, since there's a list as long as my arm of security fixes in 10.0.53.64, but that's good enough for me for now.