--- On Thu, 4/2/09, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: what *is* the proper recipe for 64-bit flash support? > To: "Fedora Test List" <fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Thursday, April 2, 2009, 8:00 AM > as i posted yesterday, after a fresh f11 beta install, the > first > time i brought up firefox and browsed to a page with > embedded flash, i > got: > > "Additional plugins are needed ... " > "Install Missing Plugins" > > however, as i reported, if you simply follow the recipe, > elect to > install those plugins, you get to download something from > adobe, it > gets installed, etc etc, but when that's all over, you > *still* don't > have flash support, and i'm guessing that that set of > steps would work > fine for i386 but not for an x86_64 install. > > is that correct? and if so, what *is* the proper set of > steps to > get flash support for a 64-bit f11 install? and if the > default recipe > doesn't actually work for 64-bit, it seems that it > shouldn't walk a > user through those steps if it's not eventually going > to work after > it's over. > > or am i missing something? i have a fresh, > fully-updated, x86_64 > f11 beta sitting in front of me, i haven't touched > anything related to > flash, and i'm willing to test whatever recipe someone > wants to > suggest and report back. > > rday > -- > > ======================================================================== > Robert P. J. Day > Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry: > Have classroom, will lecture. > > http://crashcourse.ca Waterloo, > Ontario, CANADA > ======================================================================== > > -- > fedora-test-list mailing list > fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list Robert, On the fedora-list, someone posted the following: ======================================================== Flag this message Re: Flashplayer for Fedora10-X86_64 Wednesday, April 1, 2009 2:40 PM From: "Nicolae Ghimbovschi" <xfreebird@xxxxxxxxx> Add sender to Contacts To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> 1) Remove previous versions yum remove libflashsupport nspluginwrapper.i386 flash\* mozilla-plugin-config -r 2) Download and copy the flashplayer in the mozilla plugins folder curl http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.22.87.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz | tar -C /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/ -xzf - 3) Restart ndiswrapper mozilla-plugin-config -i 4) Restart firefox http://repo.fedoramd.org/3rdparty/libflashplayer-10.0.22.87.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz ======================================================== I have not tried it myself on two machines with x86_64, but might do so, if you try it and it works, I will give it a try! :) Regards, Antonio -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
