From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OxPDO-0005Kr-LX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 19:06:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3E75AE0838 for ; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 19:06:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.osagesoftware.com (osagesoftware.com [216.144.204.42]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B76ECE0826 for ; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 18:07:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from osage.osagesoftware.com (osage.osagesoftware.com [192.168.1.10]) by mail.osagesoftware.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18FE77BC42 for ; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 14:07:04 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 14:07:03 -0400 From: David Relson To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Native 32 and 64-bit linux Flash 10 Preview Release available Message-ID: <20100919140703.0baeab05@osage.osagesoftware.com> In-Reply-To: <20100919060551.GB12277@waltdnes.org> References: <20100919060551.GB12277@waltdnes.org> Organization: Osage Software Systems, Inc. X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.6 (GTK+ 2.20.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 2e296151-02ef-4531-b7fb-18f3470fe0d3 X-Archives-Hash: 5a0cebba527ab291714691146363cc00 On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 02:05:51 -0400 Walter Dnes wrote: > This is of interest to those of us running old versions of Flash, > especially on 64-bit installs without 32-bit support (looks in > mirror). > > Download site is http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html > To find out where to install, go to "about:plugins" in Firefox, and > see where your current version of libflashplayer.so is installed. In > my case it's /opt/Adobe/flash-player/libflashplayer.so > > To install... > > * for 64-bit version download the file > http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashplayer_square_p1_64bit_linux_091510.tar.gz > > * for 32-bit version download the file > http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashplayer_square_p1_32bit_linux_091510.tar.gz > > * exit Firefox > > * mv your current copy of libflashplayer.so to another directory as a > backup, in case the new one doesn't work for you > > * extract libflashplayer.so from the downloaded tar.gz into the > directory which you removed libflashplayer.so from. > > * fire up Firefox, and away you go > > * note that when the release version comes out, you'll need to > manually remove the Preview Release libflashplayer.so I've just installed it and it's working nicely for me. Thanks for the link and install instructions. After creating directory /opt/Adobe/flash-player/ and extracting the tarball, I needed to create a symlink for /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so, and then restart firefox. David