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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.

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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
  file /usr/share/man/man1/svn.1.gz
from install of subversion-1.5.5-0.1.el5.rf
conflicts with file from package subversion-1.4.2-2.el5
  file /usr/share/man/man1/svnadmin.1.gz
from install of subversion-1.5.5-0.1.el5.rf
conflicts with file from package subversion-1.4.2-2.el5
  file /usr/share/man/man1/svnlook.1.gz
from install of subversion-1.5.5-0.1.el5.rf
conflicts with file from package subversion-1.4.2-2.el5
  file /usr/share/man/man5/svnserve.conf.5.gz
from install of subversion-1.5.5-0.1.el5.rf
conflicts with file from package subversion-1.4.2-2.el5
  file /usr/share/man/man8/svnserve.8.gz
from install of subversion-1.5.5-0.1.el5.rf
conflicts with file from package subversion-1.4.2-2.el5
  file /usr/share/xemacs/site-packages/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

WTF? Surely doing an update is supposed to replace files from an earlier release with a later one?

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