[Mageia-dev] Providing 32-bit flash-player-plugin in x86_64 nonfree?

Sun Jun 5 02:23:26 CEST 2011

On 5 June 2011 01:31, Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula at iki.fi> wrote:
+> Hi!
+>
+> Currently our flash-player-plugin pkg is only built on 32-bit, as the
+> 64-bit adobe build is still horribly out of date.
+>
+> However, this is problematic for 64-bit users, as installing the 32-bit
+> flash-player-plugin is cumbersome as nonfree32 media is not added on
+> 64-bit (and adding it would not be very nice, as the media list is
+> already way too cluttered).
+>
+> One option would be to build a x86_64 package that actually contains the
+> 32-bit flash player (and note that in description), with a dependency on
+> nspluginwrapper. When a proper 64-bit build is released by adobe, it
+> would be replaced with the 64-bit player.
+
+A suggests on nspluginwrapper I think; (actually I've never seen
+nspluginwrapper work... might be my box/setup though).
+
+Usually I install the 32bit flash plugin and either use a 32bit
+browser or 64bit konqueror (which uses the KDE4 wrapper) to watch
+flash content.
+
+>
+> Do you think this should be done, or would it add too much confusion?
+>
+> --
+> Anssi Hannula
+>
+
+
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+