[rhelv6-list] Acrobat plugin and Flashplayer plugin forx86_64firefox - how to?

[Manuel Wolfshant]

On 01/06/2011 06:58 PM, Gary Gatling wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Currently I'm "cheating" with RHEL 6 because I'm using a 32 bit 
> browser on a 64 bit OS to get flashplayer. But in the future I'll be 
> switching to a different RHEL 6 setup. For that system I'll have to 
> use the normal 64 bit firefox browser so I use what the users have. I 
> plan on using the experimental 64 bit version of flash once I switch. 
> I don't think there is an rpm (yet). Its in a tarball...
>
> The page explaining it is at:
>
> http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/square/
>
> The URL is:
>
> http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashplayer10_2_p3_64bit_linux_111710.tar.gz 
>
>
> I'm not sure about acrobat because I just use evince and it "just 
> works." :)
>
> Maybe if you install the 32 bit rpms you can run the 32 bit version on 
> a 64 bit system?
>
> Something like:
>
> rpm -qa | grep x86_64 | sed 's at x86_64@i686@' | xargs yum -y install
>
> as root to install the packages.
>

Use nspluginwrapper







> Cheers,
>
> Gary Gatling      | ITECS Systems
> ITECS, BOX 7901   | Operations and Systems Analyst
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>
> On Thu, 6 Jan 2011, Alois Treindl wrote:
>
>> How can I get Acrobat plugin and Flashplayer plugin to work in 
>> firefox on 64bit RHEL 6?
>>
>> I tried the instructions in
>> http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2010/install-adobe-acrobat-pdf-reader-on-fedora-centos-red-hat-rhel/ 
>>
>> but Firefox does not see these plugins.
>>
>> Acrobat Reader by itself works after this installation, but not as 
>> browser plugin.
>>
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