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

[Ahmad Samir]

On 5 June 2011 07:25, Marc Paré <marc at marcpare.com> wrote:
> Hi Ahmad
>
> Le 2011-06-04 20:24, Ahmad Samir a écrit :
>>
>> On 5 June 2011 02:23, Ahmad Samir<ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> 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 64-bit adobe build is still horribly out of date.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?
>>
>> Sorry, hit Send too fast.
>>
>> Not confusion, but it's a bit hackish, a x86_64 skeleton package that
>> will download a 32bit rpm, and install a 32bit closed-source binary
>> blob...
>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Anssi Hannula
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Ahmad Samir
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> I have just installed Mageia on a 64 bit and the 64bit Flash .rpm is quite
> painless from the Adobe site.
>
> Cheers
>
> Marc
>
>

AFAICS, there's no 64bit flash "rpm"....

-- 
Ahmad Samir