flash on 64-bit Linux

[Dominic Lepiane]

On Tuesday 06 June 2006 07:01, Federico Voges wrote:
> Vu Pham wrote:
> > Do I understand correctly that currently there is no Flash plugin for
> > 64-bit Linux platform ? And the 32-bit Flash won't work on 64-bit
> > Linux ?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Vu
>
> You should be able to use a 32bit browser with 32bit plugins. That's the
> way gentoo is dealing with this until all the plugins have a 64bit version
> (not soon, I'm afraid. specially flash)

There's a gplflash package (or something like that) which isn't Macromedia 
flash, but it works somewhat.  I found getting a Java plugin was harder.  Sun 
doesn't include the plugin in their 64b-linux packages and I had nothing but 
grief and poor functionality from the other JVM knock-offs.

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Dominic Lepiane

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