On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:42 PM, A J Binnie <gus.bin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi folks, > On 26 April 2010 14:53, Jonathon Fernyhough <j.fernyho...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> It's all good; I've been running 64-bit for over a year. Just make >> sure you download the 64-bit Flash player from Adobe rather than using >> the version in the repos (which drags in the 32-bit version and a >> wrapper). > > I've tried downloading the 64-bit plugin from Adobe, but I can't get it to > work. It took me ages to get it to work on Karmic (and I'm damned if I can > find the how-to that eventually worked for me). > Firefox simply exits if I try to load a page with flash on it. Chromium is a > bit more polite - it will load the page, but it tells me that the plugin has > crashed. > Flash was installed already (I'm assuming that it was the 32-bit version. It > worked with some flash pages, but not with BBC iPlayer (or YouTube, IIRC), > but I removed this prior to installing the 64-bit version. > Any suggestions?
Verify what you have at the moment, at 'about:plugins'. With the latest 64-bit Flash from http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/64bit.html (follow link for 64-bit Linux version), you should have “Shockwave Flash 10.0 r45”. You would normally dump libflashplayer.so in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ and Firefox will pick it up automatically when you restart it. That is, sudo mv libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so To verify whether a random 'libflashplayer.so' is 32 or 64 bit, run ldd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so If it is 64-bit, it should show /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 If it is 32-bit, it should show many references to 'lib32'. Simos -- A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion Q. Why is top posting bad? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
