Howto Install 32 bit Firefox with Flash w/sound and Java for AMD64

[kalpik]

Just create a symlink from swiftweasel32 to swiftweasel..

[Fraoch]

Just create a symlink from swiftweasel to swiftweasel32..

Which directory should I place the symlink in?

[kalpik]

In /usr/local.. Tha same directory which contains swiftweasel32..

[Fraoch]

Hmm. Excuse my newbieness:

mark@Sauron:/usr/local/swiftweasel32$ ln -s /usr/local/swiftweasel32 swiftweasel
ln: creating symbolic link `swiftweasel' to `/usr/local/swiftweasel32': File exists

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[ipina]

A hack work around would be to extract the files in the deb file with

sudo dpkg -x nameofdeb.deb

and copy the lib into place.
It may be possible you have a corrupt package in your apt cashe . If so reinstalling it will do no good.

sudo apt-get clean

will clean out the cashe.

Congratulations, your help solved my problems. I unpacked the .deb file and copied in /usr/lib32 all the files (which were many, not only the famous libgobject-2.0.so.0; by the way, I copied that link file and the corresponding shared lib) firefox32 asked me (in order to know which files were lacking, I run from a terminal firefox32 repeatedly). Afterwards, the first time I run firefox32 I haven't got internet, so I followed your suggestion about ipv6. It was fine, so no problems now. Thanks a lot for your assistance, my best wishes.

[Kilz]

Same error message here too. I believe all activities with apt/Synaptic still work, but it keeps coughing up this error. It seems to think that the swiftweasel32 error is unresolved and tries to fix it when you update anything.

swiftweasel32 works fine, although I got this error the first time I installed it. I tried a second time, still got the error.

If you or anyone else gets the link error , dont worry, its only copying in some icons. The program will still run, you dont have to reinstall it.

[kalpik]

Do that from one directory up Fron /usr/local, not from /usr/local/swiftweasel32!

Or, just run this from anywhere:

ln -s /usr/local/swiftweasel32 /usr/local/swiftweasel

[nbayiha]

Just want to say thanks for the thread, i followed it step by step in feisty fawn 7.04 amd 64(of course) and it works like a charm.
I just have a question it's stable, that means i'm my going to have some crashes, and how often.
Anyway Thanks a lot Killz for you help

[Fraoch]

Do that from one directory up Fron /usr/local, not from /usr/local/swiftweasel32!

Or, just run this from anywhere:

ln -s /usr/local/swiftweasel32 /usr/local/swiftweasel

Thanks, fixed the error.

[Kilz]

Just want to say thanks for the thread, i followed it step by step in feisty fawn 7.04 amd 64(of course) and it works like a charm.
I just have a question it's stable, that means i'm my going to have some crashes, and how often.
Anyway Thanks a lot Killz for you help

I dont think you will have any crashing problems. Sometimes a browser will crash, but so will every other application.