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

[Ahmad Samir]

On 5 June 2011 11:45, Peter Schwanemann <Nasenbaer at drehatlas.de> wrote:
> Am 05.06.2011 09:59, schrieb Kira:
>>
>> 在 Sun, 05 Jun 2011 13:25:59 +0800, Marc Paré <marc at marcpare.com>寫道:
>>>
>>> I have just installed Mageia on a 64 bit and the 64bit Flash .rpm is
>>> quite painless from the Adobe site.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Marc
>>>
>> The major problem is that Adobe seems don't like we to distribute
>>
>> the 64-bit version.....
>>
> How about packing flash player square?
> -> http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/square/
>
> it's adobe's suggested way to go and although it is labeled as development
> version, it runs better and more stable than any other flash version I know
> on my 64bit machine.
>
> I know, one should prefare "stable" software, however, if you are against
> creating a package for general use, we could perhaps have a seperate
> package.
>
> Just my 2¢ ;)
>
> Cheers
> Nasenbaer
>

I think this was suggested and rejected about 15 times in the past 2-3 months :)

The 64bit preview Adobe flash, in its current state, isn't going to be
in the Mageia official repositories at all.
c.f. https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=913

-- 
Ahmad Samir