[Gllug] Flash on X86-64 architecture

Kostas Georgiou k.georgiou at imperial.ac.uk
Sun Jun 3 23:08:48 UTC 2007


On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 11:58:17PM +0100, John G Walker wrote:

> Has anyone been able to install the Flash 9 plugin for Firefox on X86-64
> architecture?
> 
> I ran the installer from the Adobe web site and it told me that X86-64
> architecture wasn't supported by the Adobe Flashplayer installer.
> Typically, there's no hint as to what to do next. I can't find anything
> about this on the web site - not even amongst the list of known issues
> associated with Flash 9 - and a message sent via the complaints form on
> the website about a fortnight ago has, as I expected, disappeared into
> cyberspace.
> 
> Dammit, I can't be the first person to attempt to load the Flash plugin
> on an X86-64 machine. So what's the secret?

It's called nspluginwrapper, you'll be able to use an i386 plugin
under x86_64 firefox with it.

Kostas
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