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

Sun Jun 5 07:25:59 CEST 2011

Hi Ahmad
+
+Le 2011-06-04 20:24, Ahmad Samir a écrit :
+> 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 64-bit adobe build is still horribly out of date.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
+>>
+>
+>
+>
+
+I have just installed Mageia on a 64 bit and the 64bit Flash .rpm is 
+quite painless from the Adobe site.
+
+Cheers
+
+Marc
+
+