Re: chroot64 the chroot32
On Thursday 31 January 2008, Rob Andrews wrote:
> On 31-Jan-2008 10:20.51 (GMT), Hans Vogelsberger wrote:
> > Well, I never tried chroot. But Opera and - because of Sun Java plugins
> > - Iceweasel and Openoffice still run on my old (and much too loud)
> > 32-bit intel 686 computer instead of the newer Amd 64 one.
>
You can install the 32bit opera on amd64 using --force-architecture and
some alterations of the startup script. It works (somewhat) with flash
and java. There's also a beta amd64 .deb of 9.50b, which I'm planning
on trying tomorrow.
-Chris
> The Java plugin is an interesting one. I don't see why the Java NPAPI
> plugin hasn't been ported to 64-bit systems.
>
> Konqueror uses a Java "hack" as far as I am aware, calling the java
> executable direcly and embedding it directly into an X region on the
> display. I wonder how hard it would be to hack a wrapper plugin to do that
> natively.
>
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