[Leaplist] adobe flash for Ubuntu

[Hank Lambert]

Thanks for clearing that up. I re-read the article, and the author does
in fact state that Adobe doesn't have a plug-in rather than Flash
altogether. That makes more sense. But he did state that, "Ubuntu users
need to wrap the 32-bit flash in ndiswrapper so that it could work a
64-bit version of Ubuntu". That sentence confused me as, like you said,
I thought that NDIS was specifically for using Windows drivers on
network devices. Maybe he used ndiswrapper when he should have just
stated wrapper?

--Hank


Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> 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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