[Novalug] Flash 8.5/Hlash 9 question

Ken Kauffman kkauffman@headfog.com
Wed Mar 7 11:24:27 EST 2007


"nspluginwrapper"

I assume that's a compatibility library wrapper.

k

Joel Fouse wrote:
> I just discovered this morning that 64-bit firefox using the latest
> nspluginwrapper in portage (0.9.91.2) can use the (32-bit) flash 9
> plugin, and so far it doesn't seem to suck.
> 
> - Joel
> 
> On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 10:18 -0500, Ken Kauffman wrote:
>> gregory pryzby wrote:
>>> On SUSE, the 32bit version works on 64b machine
>>>
>>> There are directions on how to do it on Ubuntu 
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 06:32:06AM -0800, Ross Foard wrote:
>>>> Charlie,
>>>>
>>>> Flash 9 is available and is free. Last time I checked only issue with Flash on
>>>> Linux was 64bit version is not available.
>>>>
>>>> There is Gnash being developed, a GNU Flash Player. It is still in development,
>>>> I think in alpha testing, more at: http://gnash.lulu.com/
>>> --
>>> greg pryzby                              greg at pryzby dot org
>>> fingerprint: 8A1A DB90 869F 5DD1 D6E9 EEB6 C156 6B04 849F A86F
>> I'm assuming you are using a 32 bit browser as a result. I do that on 
>> Gentoo now.
>>
>> "firefox" launches the native compiled 64 bit for me.
>> "firefox-bin" launches the 32 bit binary and can take advantage of the 
>> 32 bit plug-ins.
>>
>> k
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