64bit Flash plugin

[Charles A Edwards]

FYI, for any interested, Adobe has released an updated Flash 10 plugin
(still alpha) for 64bit linux.

http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html


    Charles

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[David Guntner-3]

Charles A Edwards grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> FYI, for any interested, Adobe has released an updated Flash 10 plugin
> (still alpha) for 64bit linux.
>
> http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html

Well that's certainly worth knowing about. :-)  That stupid npwrapper
thing that's supposed to let you use the 32-bit plugin hasn't ever done
anything for me except cause segfault messages in my syslog whenever I
run Firefox.

           --Dave

[Charles A Edwards]

On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:53:12 -0700
David Guntner wrote:

> > FYI, for any interested, Adobe has released an updated Flash 10
> > plugin (still alpha) for 64bit linux.
> >
> > http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html 
>
> Well that's certainly worth knowing about. :-)  That stupid npwrapper
> thing that's supposed to let you use the 32-bit plugin hasn't ever
> done anything for me except cause segfault messages in my syslog
> whenever I run Firefox.

If you switch be sure to remove the nspluginwrapper rpms and the 32 bit
plugin.
Extract the 64 bit plugin (it is a single .so file)
to /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins and restart firefox (or you preferred
browser).


    Charles

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[David Guntner-3]

Charles A Edwards grabbed a keyboard and wrote:

> On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:53:12 -0700
> David Guntner wrote:
>
>>> FYI, for any interested, Adobe has released an updated Flash 10
>>> plugin (still alpha) for 64bit linux.
>>>
>>> http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html 
>> Well that's certainly worth knowing about. :-)  That stupid npwrapper
>> thing that's supposed to let you use the 32-bit plugin hasn't ever
>> done anything for me except cause segfault messages in my syslog
>> whenever I run Firefox.
>
> If you switch be sure to remove the nspluginwrapper rpms and the 32 bit
> plugin.
> Extract the 64 bit plugin (it is a single .so file)
> to /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins and restart firefox (or you preferred
> browser).

When I extract things from tarballs, I tend to place them under
/usr/local, but don't worry, I know how to make symlinks. :-)

In fact, that was the way I was doing flash with Firefox back in the
32-bit setup.  Firefox wasn't from an rpm and was under /usr/local and
so was the flash plugin.  Symlinks took care of everything.  I just love
'em. :-)

              --Dave