[Leaplist] adobe flash for Ubuntu

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Fri, 9/26/08, Hank Lambert <hank at hanklambert.com> wrote:
> That's interesting, because I just read in Linux Format
> that Adobe does not have Flash for 64-bit Linux.

Or to be more specific, Adobe does not have a plug-in for
Firefox/x86-64.  You can have a Linux/x86-64 distribution
installed, and then run Firefox/x86.  That solves the
problem.

Most newer distributions have separated XULRunner and
Firefox 3 software.  That way if you're running, say,
a Linux/x86-64 distro with GNOME, which requires
XULRunner/x86-64, you don't have to have Firefox/x86-64
installed anymore, but Firefox/i386 and XULRunner/x86.

Red Hat finally decided to make the switch in RHEL 4.7
and RHEL 5.2 updates for their Enterprise distro, despite
some of the headache the major version change made.

> To get it to work well, it needs to be wrapped in NDIS
> or some other workaround.

Not to nitpick, but NDIS is a Windows network driver
interface specification, and has to do with hardware.
What you're thinking of is another plug-in wrapper.

And it works not-so-well.

Either ensure Firefox/x86 is installed and the default
on your Linux/x86-64 distro, or just install a Linux/x86
distro if you don't want to deal with that.

-- Bryan

P.S.  Depending on your distro, plug-ins for Firefox/x86
go in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and plug-ins for
Firefox/x86-64 will go in /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins.
Again, this depends on your distro, how it handles multi-
arch or other concepts, if at all, etc...


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