[NTLUG:Discuss] 64-bit Flash on Linux

[Rick Renshaw]

----- Original Message ----
From: Steve Martindell <steve.martindell at gmail.com>
To: discuss at ntlug.org
Sent: Tue, December 22, 2009 12:49:40 AM
Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] 64-bit Flash on Linux

Running Firefox3.5.6 on 64-bit Suse Linux 10.3

firefox/plugins> uname -a
Linux darkstar 2.6.22.17-0.1-default #1 SMP 2008/02/10 20:01:04 UTC
x86_64 GNU/Linux

1) I downloaded the 64-bit version of Linux Adobe Flash Player
installer  =version 10.0.42.34.

2) and copied the resulting "libflashplayer.so" into the
".../mozilla/plugins/" directory
     and into the ".../mozilla/firefox/plugins" directory.

3) Then restarted Firefox,
     -->  still can't play youtube or hulu,  which is kindof what I expected.

Is there any reason to expect the 64-bit Linux Flash player to work ?
or should I try Gnash or one of the script-based flash players ?

  -steve

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I am running Debian Lenny and Iceweasel 3.0.6 with the 64 bit Adobe 10 flash player from the Debian backports no problem:  

uname -a
Linux dark 2.6.26-2-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Nov 5 02:23:12 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

file /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so
/usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared
object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, stripped