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

Sun Jun 5 18:33:37 CEST 2011

On 5 June 2011 11:45, Peter Schwanemann <Nasenbaer at drehatlas.de> wrote:
+> Am 05.06.2011 09:59, schrieb Kira:
+>>
+>> 在 Sun, 05 Jun 2011 13:25:59 +0800, Marc Paré <marc at marcpare.com>寫道:
+>>>
+>>> I have just installed Mageia on a 64 bit and the 64bit Flash .rpm is
+>>> quite painless from the Adobe site.
+>>>
+>>> Cheers
+>>>
+>>> Marc
+>>>
+>> The major problem is that Adobe seems don't like we to distribute
+>>
+>> the 64-bit version.....
+>>
+> How about packing flash player square?
+> -> http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/square/
+>
+> it's adobe's suggested way to go and although it is labeled as development
+> version, it runs better and more stable than any other flash version I know
+> on my 64bit machine.
+>
+> I know, one should prefare "stable" software, however, if you are against
+> creating a package for general use, we could perhaps have a seperate
+> package.
+>
+> Just my 2¢ ;)
+>
+> Cheers
+> Nasenbaer
+>
+
+I think this was suggested and rejected about 15 times in the past 2-3 months :)
+
+The 64bit preview Adobe flash, in its current state, isn't going to be
+in the Mageia official repositories at all.
+c.f. https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=913
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+