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

Sun Jun 5 18:36:48 CEST 2011

On 5 June 2011 12:51, Marc Paré <marc at marcpare.com> wrote:
+> Le 2011-06-05 03:59, Kira a écrit :
+>>
+>> 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.....
+>>
+>
+> Sorry, I just rechecked my flash and it is the 32bit version. My fault. But
+> the bottom line is that it works for now.
+>
+> As for the Adobe "Square" preview, I don't think the 64bit version will
+> suffor for too long in preview release as most of the machines being sold
+> today are 64bit. I don't think that Adobe will sit on the sucess of their
+> 32bit product and ignore the 64bit version.
+>
+> For now the 32bit version works on Firefox 64bit and eventually the 64bit
+> version will be released in .rpm for us to install. We just have be patient.
+>
+> Cheers
+>
+> Marc
+>
+>
+
+The problem is, the 64bit version has been a "preview" version since
+last November, whereas the 32bit has received many releases since
+then, including numerous sec/bug fixes... yet we can't banish hope
+that we'll see a stable 64bit Flash player before the end of this
+millenni^W century. :)
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+