Flash player on x86_64?

[Marc Lijour]

On September 28, 2005 00:33, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Most things are working well on a newly installed Athlon 64 system (the
> latest Ubuntu gave me install errors but Mandriva loaded without a
> hitch...)
>
> I notice that Macromedia does not make a 64-bit version of Flash player
> though they say it can be used on a 64-but OS using a 32-bit browser.
>
> It's my understanding that Firefox still runs in 32-bit mode, so it
> should be able to satisfy the above requirement. Yet they Flash install
>
> script aborts, saying:
>  > ERROR: Your architecture, \'x86_64\', is not supported by the
>  > Macromedia Flash Player installer.
>
> Can I safely mangle the scripts to override this, or will the resulting
> setup be unusable? Has anyone else tried this?
>
> In any case, how usable is the open source Flash player?

The trick is this: if you want to use a 32-bit plugin it is ok but you need 
the 32-bit core binaries to do that. Make sure you install the 32 bit version 
of the package on you amd64.



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> - Evan
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