Joy at last!
Chris Staite from the University of Birmingham has built a statically-linked version of Chromium, the open source version of Google’s Chrome browser, for Centos.
You can get it from here.
I was getting so sick of Firefox’s slowness and bloat, and Chromium is so much snappier, and more memory-efficient too.
Although to be fair, I don’t [...]
This took a fair bit of searching, and the answer’s non-obvious…
Everybody (?) knows that in theory, if you have 64-bit Firefox on 64-bit Linux (x86_64), you can use nspluginwrapper to install 32-bit plugins, like the Flash Player. There’s some instructions here for example.
However, those instructions are flawed in two regards.
I just ran into a problem when trying to upgrade to the latest rpm-packaged version of Subversion on Centos 5 x86_64 — simple solution, but not obvious, so hopefully this will help someone.
It goes like this, as root:
$ yum update subversion
[normal messages snipped]
Transaction Check Error:
file /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/psvn.el
from install of subversion-1.5.5-0.1.el5.rf
conflicts with file from package subversion-1.4.2-2.el5
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