Flash 10 in 64-bit F9: does it work?

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, Michael Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com> said:
> Flash 10 no longer needs libflashsupport. In fact, the Flash 10 RPM 
> already has a Require: libcurl.so.4. You couldn't install it without it. 
> Fedora updated the libcurl RPM to have a libcurl.so.4. This was 
> discussed back in the Fedora 10 beta when it was first changed.
> 
> If you somehow didn't have curl already installed... I question how you 
> installed Flash in the first place. It definitely wasn't by RPM or else 
> you added a --nodeps to your install arguments.

The flash-plugin RPM I have has essentially no useful Requires:

kosh:2:~$ rpm -q flash-plugin
flash-plugin-10.0.12.36-release.i386
kosh:3:~$ rpm -q --requires flash-plugin
/bin/bash  
/bin/sh  
/bin/sh  
/bin/sh  
/bin/sh  
glibc >= 2.4
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1

There is certainly no libcurl (or any other library) requirement; I
assume Adobe has (wrongly) disabled automatic requirement generation.
Here's what the actual plugin is linked against:

kosh:14:~$ ldd /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so 
        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0x00110000)
        libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00be3000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00b80000)
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x00cd3000)
        libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x00b99000)
        libXt.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x00dd4000)
        libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0x00e2e000)
        libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x00ebd000)
        libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0x00eec000)
        libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0x016c0000)
        libatk-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libatk-1.0.so.0 (0x07f8c000)
        libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 (0x012f6000)
        libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 (0x00ba9000)
        libpango-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0 (0x01313000)
        libcairo.so.2 => /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2 (0x01477000)
        libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0x01356000)
        libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => /lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 (0x00bb3000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00bb7000)
        libglib-2.0.so.0 => /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x01b34000)
        libnss3.so => /lib/libnss3.so (0x0202f000)
        libsmime3.so => /lib/libsmime3.so (0x07ede000)
        libssl3.so => /lib/libssl3.so (0x01396000)
        libplds4.so => /lib/libplds4.so (0x00bbc000)
        libplc4.so => /lib/libplc4.so (0x00bbf000)
        libnspr4.so => /lib/libnspr4.so (0x013c7000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x01401000)
        libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x07bec000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x034a4000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00bc5000)
        libxcb-xlib.so.0 => /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0 (0x07a90000)
        libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 (0x07d82000)
        libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0x07aad000)
        libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x06ad8000)
        libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x06b7a000)
        libexpat.so.1 => /lib/libexpat.so.1 (0x06bef000)
        libXcomposite.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXcomposite.so.1 (0x06aab000)
        libXfixes.so.3 => /usr/lib/libXfixes.so.3 (0x06abd000)
        libpng12.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 (0x0142a000)
        libXrender.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0x06ae1000)
        libXinerama.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXinerama.so.1 (0x01452000)
        libXi.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXi.so.6 (0x01455000)
        libXrandr.so.2 => /usr/lib/libXrandr.so.2 (0x06acf000)
        libXcursor.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXcursor.so.1 (0x07885000)
        libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 (0x07b65000)
        libz.so.1 => /lib/libz.so.1 (0x0796b000)
        libpixman-1.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpixman-1.so.0 (0x07baa000)
        libnssutil3.so => /lib/libnssutil3.so (0x079de000)
        libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x07829000)
        libuuid.so.1 => /lib/libuuid.so.1 (0x077fb000)

No libcurl in there, so I guess they must be dlopening it or something
like that.

-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.