| Summary: | The icedtea-web plugins for 32-bit and 64-bit browsers are not compatible | ||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Jean-Pierre André <jean-pierre.andre> | ||||
| Component: | icedtea-web | Assignee: | Deepak Bhole <dbhole> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | unspecified | ||||||
| Version: | 16 | CC: | cra, dbhole, omajid | ||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Reopened | ||||
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| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2013-02-14 01:04:59 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
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Description
Jean-Pierre André
2011-06-03 19:44:32 UTC
Hi. Installation of both at the same time is not supported. The 32-bit plugin requires 32-bit Firefox which is not available on 64-bit Fedora anyway. Created attachment 587561 [details]
hack to enable a 32-bit version to be installed alongside the 64-bit one
Is it too much trouble to ask that the 32-bit plugin be made to work in parallel with 64-bit? Firefox itself installs cleanly with 32-bit and 64-bit versions side-by-side by simply enabling the 32-bit repos on a 64-bit system:
# setarch i386 yum install firefox.i686
By using this patch, you can install icedtea-web.i686 in a similar way and have a working 32-bit Java installation, although this isn't a "proper" patch for the Fedora package. I did this so I could run the Juniper Network Connect VPN client, which doesn't support 64-bit Linux.
A more "proper" way to make this parallel installable may be to split out the library and binaries as a subpackage like icedtea-web-libs.
How did you install icedtea-web? setarch i386 yum install icedtea-web.i686 produces 100's of errors on my 64-bit system This message is a reminder that Fedora 16 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 4 (four) weeks from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 16. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as WONTFIX if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '16'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 16's end of life. Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we may not be able to fix it before Fedora 16 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora, you are encouraged to click on "Clone This Bug" and open it against that version of Fedora. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. The process we are following is described here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping Fedora 16 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2013-02-12. Fedora 16 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed. |