Unable to install macromedia flash player on x86_64 arch

[Justin Conover]

On Apr 7, 2005 1:57 PM, dragoran <dragoran at feuerpokemon.de> wrote:
> Justin Conover wrote:
> 
> >On Apr 7, 2005 1:28 PM, dragoran <dragoran at feuerpokemon.de> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Pedro Fernandes Macedo wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>>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.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>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.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>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...
> >>>
> >>>--
> >>>Pedro Macedo (who likes to browse the web on 64 bit without all that
> >>>annoying flash thingies ;) )
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>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.
> >
> >yum remove firefox
> >grab firefox from mozilla.org and install it.  grab flash 7, install it.
> >
> >
> >
> you can also try yum install firefox.i386
> 

I guess you just point your "icon/launcher" to
/usr/lib/firefox/firefox after that.

A note about gplflash, I pulled down cvs and built it, but you will
need libmad which I grabbed from

http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/3/libmad/libmad-0.15.1b-3.1.fc3.fr.src.rpm

rpmbuild --rebuild libmad*

built and installed fine on rawhide 64 and I will test the plugin when
i get home.