kelsey hudson wrote: > David Looney wrote: > >> Just untar the installation tarball and copy libflashplayer.so and >> flashplayer.xpt to your ~/.mozilla/plugins directory. >> >> It's a brain-dead installer. The i386 flash works fine under x86_64. > > .... only if your browser is compiled for i386. You can't link an i386 > shared library with an x86_64 executable. They're binary-incompatible in > the same execution space. It'd be the same thing on ia64 -- it can also > run i386 code (ok, it's miserably slow), but not in the same execution > thread as a native ia64 binary. You might as well be trying to link in > PPC or SPARC[1] code instead :(
Yes, but what you seem to be able to get from the getfirefox page is the i686 linux version, which does work with the iNNN flash plugin you get from Adobe. OTOH, what the installer script is detecting is the architecture of your system, not the architecture for which the browser was compiled. Novell/Suse 10.0 seems to be supplying the i686 version to my x86_64 installation. > Personally, I think these vendors asking us to run 32 bit browsers on a > 64 bit platform is about like them asking us to take our ferrari and > putting the engine from a Yugo in it. There's no need for profanity. [snip] > I guess the moral of the story is that proprietary software sucks. Well, maybe there is. David Looney -- If the needles are easier to find, increase the size of the haystack. - Phil Karns -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
