what *is* the proper recipe for 64-bit flash support?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Antonio Olivares wrote:

> Robert,
>
> On the fedora-list, someone posted the following:
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> Re: Flashplayer for Fedora10-X86_64
> Wednesday, April 1, 2009 2:40 PM
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> 1) Remove previous versions
>
> yum remove libflashsupport nspluginwrapper.i386 flash\*
> mozilla-plugin-config -r
>
> 2) Download and copy the flashplayer in the mozilla plugins folder
>
> curl http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.22.87.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
> | tar  -C /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/ -xzf -
>
> 3) Restart ndiswrapper
>
> mozilla-plugin-config -i
>
> 4) Restart firefox
>
> http://repo.fedoramd.org/3rdparty/libflashplayer-10.0.22.87.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
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>
> I have not tried it myself on two machines with x86_64, but might do
> so, if you try it and it works, I will give it a try! :)

  ok, i'll make a note of this, but i'll wait a bit to see if anyone
else chimes in, since i already know of two sources for the alleged
recipe:

  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flash
  http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f10.html#flash

and before i try anything, i want to hear everyone's suggestions and,
primarily, i'd like someone to confirm that 64-bit flash support has
to be obtained *manually*.  and that simply following that "Install
Missing Plugins" button isn't going to work.  can anyone confirm that?

rday
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