Comments from a new user: what is Distrowatch complaining about?

[Graeme Hilton]

2009/7/1  <gilpel at altern.org>:
>> 2009/6/30  <gilpel at altern.org>:
>>> I couldn't install Abobe Flash as suggested by Fedorafaqs. Adobe's
>>> instructions are much simpler and work very well:
>>>
>>> Download the x86_64 package, un gzip it on the desktop, copy to:
>>>
>>> /home/my_user_name/.mozilla/plugins
>>>
>>> Restart Firefox, go to YouTube :)
>>
>> The instructions on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flash are pretty
>> complete,
>
> The instructions for x86_64 are exactly the same as on Adobe's site:
>
>  64-bit alpha
>
> Adobe also has a pre-release version of a 64-bit plugin. Until this is
> supported via yum, you will need to do the following:
>
>   1. Download the .tar.gz version from Adobe here.
>   2. Use "gtar -xzvf" to extract libflashplayer.so and put it in either
> in /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/ or ~/.mozilla/plugins/.
>   3. Restart Firefox.
>
> This is what I did.
>
>> and when Adobe release updates you'll get a notification
>> from PackageKit rather than having to go and find it later.
>
> Not yet for 64-bit.

Sorry, I missed the 64-bit requirement.

What I don't get is why it's so difficult to create a 64-bit yum
package!  Fedora manages it quite well ;-)

-- 
Graeme Hilton