Fwd: Re: [TLUG]: Flash player on x86_64?

I got this email from a LUG list.

A little comparison between Mandriva and Debian working.

----------  Forwarded Message  ----------

Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Flash player on x86_64?
Date: September 28, 2005 09:25
From: Len Sorensen <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]

On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 12:33:22AM -0400, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> Most things are working well on a newly installed Athlon 64 system (the
> latest Ubuntu gave me install errors but Mandriva loaded without a
> hitch...)
>
> I notice that Macromedia does not make a 64-bit version of Flash player
> though they say it can be used on a 64-but OS using a 32-bit browser.
>
> It's my understanding that Firefox still runs in 32-bit mode, so it
> should be able to satisfy the above requirement. Yet they Flash install
>
> script aborts, saying:
> > ERROR: Your architecture, \'x86_64\', is not supported by the
> > Macromedia Flash Player installer.
>
> Can I safely mangle the scripts to override this, or will the resulting
> setup be unusable? Has anyone else tried this?
>
> In any case, how usable is the open source Flash player?

Well if you run a debian based distribution, installing the flash
package from marillat's archive in your 32bit chroot is simple and just
works.

If you want to install a 32bit only program while running a 64bit kernel
you need the linux32 utility (which intercepts calls to uname for
checking architecture and returns i686 instead of x86_64).  So for
example:

bash# linux32 flashplayersetup

Lennart Sorensen
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml

-------------------------------------------------------