Unable to install macromedia flash player on x86_64 arch

[dragoran]

Justin Conover wrote:

>On Apr 7, 2005 1:28 PM, dragoran <dragoran at feuerpokemon.de> wrote:
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>>Pedro Fernandes Macedo wrote:
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>>>Jeff Spaleta wrote:
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>>>>>Which would scare (new) users into thinking "Linux isn't userfriendly",
>>>>>choose not to learn it (scared of at early stage), tell others this,
>>>>>and
>>>>>choose non-Linux solutions over Linux ones - which may in turn be bad
>>>>>for future RH revenue.
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>>>>Right...choosing non-linux 64bit solutions over 64bit linux. Remind me
>>>>again... what are the 64bit non-linux solutions for PC hardware right
>>>>now? Isn't windows 64bit xp still in some sort of beta phase?
>>>>New users.. running amd 64bit hardware (thats what we are talking
>>>>about really arent we).. can just as easily choose 32bit fedora core..
>>>>and avoid this sort of crap completely.  Or.. they can wait till MS
>>>>64bit XP lands and macromedia finally feels significant market
>>>>pressure to get off their asses and build a 64bit versions of their
>>>>plugins.  In the meantime we can all hope and pray that svg magically
>>>>matures and someone crafts professional development tools for it to
>>>>challenge macromedia in the marketplace and we a no longer held
>>>>hostage by macromedia to get our required dosage of pointless
>>>>interactive web experience.
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>>>Well , given that windows xp 64 finally reached gold status and should
>>>be on stores soon, maybe things could change...
>>>Or not... I dont have any numbers on the number of sales of 64 bit
>>>processors , but given the huge amount of 32 bit processors around , I
>>>guess we'll have to wait a little more untill x86_64 processors become
>>>more widespread before macromedia and other vendors port their closed
>>>source programs to 64 bits...
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>>>Pedro Macedo (who likes to browse the web on 64 bit without all that
>>>annoying flash thingies ;) )
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>>http://gplflash.sourceforge.net/
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>I've heard the gplflash crashes firefox often.  I will try it tonight
>if I get a chance.  Until Macromedia releases a 64bit version, this is
>what I do.
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>yum remove firefox
>grab firefox from mozilla.org and install it.  grab flash 7, install it.
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you can also try yum install firefox.i386