Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3397 mails)

[Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 15 April 2005 04:56, Colin Carter wrote:
> > The stand-alone Adobe Reader will work fine under a 64-bit system, since
> > it emulates a 32 bit environment as needed. If you're running 64-bit
> > browser, then I think the 32-bit plug-in supplied with the reader
> > package won't work and you will not be able to view PDF files within
> > the browser. To my knowledge, there's no 64-bit plug-in from Adobe, but
> > I'm not 100% sure about that.
>
> That I can manage: I will just have to open the reader from the menu.
> A drag, but (yet another) consequence of 'upgrading'.

You won't have to if you use firefox, since the firefox in the x86_64 distro 
is actually 32 bit, so it can handle all the 32 bit plugins

> However, just as I predicted, things always go awry with upgrades.
> I download with Konqueror and, right at the end, Konqueror invokes
> Yast which asks me if I want to install, so I click 'install'.
> Yast opens up with nothing in the window.  That is, I think Yast has
> gone walk-about.
> No worries, I can install the rpm.
> Not on your Nellie: the rpm file has been deleted by Yast.
> Three times I tried it and 38MB is not quick to download.
> Any ideas on how to down load the rpm without Yast grabbing and disposing
> of it?

Delete the file /opt/kde3/share/services/krpmview.desktop (or uninstall 
kdebase3-SuSE, but then you'll lose other things as well)

>
> Now you understand why I hate this round-about and wanted to get away from
> M$?

The big difference isn't what's in the defaults. It's how easy it is to get 
away from them