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

Sun Jun 5 21:55:57 CEST 2011

Ahmad Samir a écrit :
+>
+> 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. :)
+
+That makes 6 months -- so it seems likely that we should expect a final version soon.
+Adobe is probably being (overly) cautious.
+In any case, it is easy to install the Linux version, in tar format -- just decompress in to the 
+plugin folder of the browser.
+(e.g. ~/mozilla/firefox/ for firefox)
+
+-- 
+André
+