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

Sun Jun 5 21:45:38 CEST 2011

Marc Paré a écrit :
+>
+> 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
+
+Salut Marc
+
+The plugin is installed in ~/mozilla/firefox/plugins/ (or one of the alternate locations provided 
+by the Firefox rpm), so you can just as easily install the plugin from a tar file.
+The above location is the first searched by Firefox, so other locations will be ignored for flash, 
+if flash is found there.
+The only problem with the preliminary version is that it is more likely to have bugs.
+Personally I install a tar version of flash, as it stays in place across distro updates, even clean 
+installs.  (I keep /home intact.)
+
+My 2 cents :)
+-- 
+André
+