On 8/16/2010 2:13 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 ?
* 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.
