CentOS - Sep 2009 - Confusion about 32 vs 64 bit jre

I ran a yum update yesterday and got the new kernel and other goodies,
and I've rebooted and all seems to be well.

Except, I just tried to run Firefox for the first time, and it wants a
new jre (6.16).  Now that's fine, except that I have a recollection of
needing the 32-bit jre the last time I did this, but that's not
working.  I'm pulling down the 64-bit version, but I'm wondering if I
need both, which, IIRC, does not work, or which one of the two?

(I _am_ running the x86_64 OS and most apps.)

What bothers me is that I've tried both, and apparently neither one
works (!!!!).

I installed by downloading the bin file (self-extracting rpm), and
then running the bin with sudo.

Where did I go wrong?

mhr

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 1:32 PM, MHR <mhullrich at gmail.com>
wrote:
> I ran a yum update yesterday and got the new kernel and other goodies,
> and I've rebooted and all seems to be well.
>
> Except, I just tried to run Firefox for the first time, and it wants a
> new jre (6.16). ?Now that's fine, except that I have a recollection of
> needing the 32-bit jre the last time I did this, but that's not
> working. ?I'm pulling down the 64-bit version, but I'm wondering if
I
> need both, which, IIRC, does not work, or which one of the two?
>
> (I _am_ running the x86_64 OS and most apps.)
>
> What bothers me is that I've tried both, and apparently neither one
> works (!!!!).
>
> I installed by downloading the bin file (self-extracting rpm), and
> then running the bin with sudo.
>
> Where did I go wrong?
>
Solved:  The installation does not automatically update the mozilla
plugins directory, which (apparently) must be updated manually.

Foo.

mhr