On Thursday 22 February 2007 14:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Since moving to my AMD64 based machine I have changed my Ubuntu to the
> > 64 bit version. My problem is that I can no longer see flash in web
> > pages.
>
> Not the easiest solution, but you could always set up a 32 bit chroot
> for firefox and other apps that rely on 32 bit libraries / codecs.
> Works pretty well for me.
>
> Instructions at <http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=24575>, and
> probably elsewhere too.

You don't need that degree of mess. I use SuSE and the 32bit run libs.
I read recently how you can apt-get 'ignore architecture' to do the same.
Then 'firefox' == 'firefox-32' etc without any mess.

[tigger] /home/jam [93]% uname -i
x86_64

[tigger] /home/jam [94]% rpm -qi MozillaFirefox
Name        : MozillaFirefox           Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 1.5.0.7                  Vendor: SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, 
Nuernberg, Germany
Release     : 1.5                      Build Date: Thu 28 Sep 2006 04:55:26 PM 
WST
[snip]
Distribution: SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 (i586)

James
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