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

Sun Jun 5 02:24:51 CEST 2011

On 5 June 2011 02:23, Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com> wrote:
+> 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 64-bit adobe build is still horribly out of date.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?
+
+Sorry, hit Send too fast.
+
+Not confusion, but it's a bit hackish, a x86_64 skeleton package that
+will download a 32bit rpm, and install a 32bit closed-source binary
+blob...
+
+>>
+>> --
+>> Anssi Hannula
+>>
+>
+>
+>
+> --
+> Ahmad Samir
+>
+
+
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+