Flash plugin: stupid question

[Chadley Wilson]

On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 23:15 -0600, Jonathan Berry wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 18:21:30 -0800 (PST), Antonio Olivares
> <olivares14031 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 
> > --- Mariano Lopez Reta <mlreta at datafull.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi, all.
> > >
> > > Following the instructions on Yolinux, I uninstalled
> > > from my x86-64 (rpm
> > > -e) both firefox and mozplugger, and then I
> > > installed both 32 bit
> > > counterparts. Problem is, Firefox's "about" keeps
> > > saying x86-64, thus
> > > Flash player installer refuses to install. Any
> > > suggestions?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > >
> > > Mariano
> > > Tortuguitas, Argentina
> > >
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> > Mariano,
> >    Download it from
> > http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash
> > 
> > # tar -zxvf install_flash_player
> > # cd install_flash_player_7_linux
> > [olivares at localhost install_flash_player_7_linux]$ ls
> > flashplayer-installer  libflashplayer.so  Readme.txt
> > flashplayer.xpt        Readme.htm
> > [olivares at localhost
> > install_flash_player_7_linux]$./flashplayer-installer
> > 
> > Should install it for you.  If it doesn't then
> > hopefully someone else can help you.
> > 
> > Hope it helps,
> > 
> > Antonio
> 
Well it might be too smart but I have hacked through the script and all
it does is copy libflashplayer.so and flashplayer.xpt
to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/

So why not just copy the two files and be done.

Cool Hey!  :}

Cheers Chad

> This won't work since he is running x86_64.  The installer is too
> smart.  It realizes it is running in a 64-bit OS and refuses to
> install, even though it works fine with a 32-bit browser.    You can
> get an RPM (which is better since Fedora is RPM based) of the flash
> plugin from:
> http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/1367214/com/flash-plugin-7.0.25-1.i386.rpm.html
> 
> Jonathan
>