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

Sun Jun 5 07:36:58 CEST 2011

On 5 June 2011 07:25, Marc Paré <marc at marcpare.com> wrote:
+> 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 64-bit adobe build is still horribly out of date.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
+>
+>
+
+AFAICS, there's no 64bit flash "rpm"....
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+