[Mageia-dev] Providing 32-bit flash-player-plugin in x86_64 nonfree?

[Ahmad Samir]

On 5 June 2011 01:31, Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula at iki.fi> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Currently our flash-player-plugin pkg is only built on 32-bit, as the
> 64-bit adobe build is still horribly out of date.
>
> However, this is problematic for 64-bit users, as installing the 32-bit
> flash-player-plugin is cumbersome as nonfree32 media is not added on
> 64-bit (and adding it would not be very nice, as the media list is
> already way too cluttered).
>
> One option would be to build a x86_64 package that actually contains the
> 32-bit flash player (and note that in description), with a dependency on
> nspluginwrapper. When a proper 64-bit build is released by adobe, it
> would be replaced with the 64-bit player.

A suggests on nspluginwrapper I think; (actually I've never seen
nspluginwrapper work... might be my box/setup though).

Usually I install the 32bit flash plugin and either use a 32bit
browser or 64bit konqueror (which uses the KDE4 wrapper) to watch
flash content.

>
> Do you think this should be done, or would it add too much confusion?
>
> --
> Anssi Hannula
>



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Ahmad Samir