[Triumf-linux-managers] Re: Site Network & Computing Alerts : re. Adobe Flash on Linux

[Andrew Daviel]

Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
> Andrew, Kelvin - please post a clarification spelling out the exact rpm
> versions one should expect to see.

The latest Flash 10 is 10,0,22,87 (as seen on
http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about)
The latest 32-bit plugin RPM from Adobe is
flash-plugin-10.0.22.87-release.i386
The latest 64-bit plugin RPM, packaged by Kel from Adobe tarball, is
flash-mozplugin-10.0.22.87-1.el5.triumf.x86_64

SL-5 installations using the triumf kickstart obtain flash-10 directly from the 
Adobe repo.
Flash 10 is the first version to be available in 64-bit. But there is not 
yet a 64-bit RPM in Adobe's yum repository.

Flash 10 does not work with glibc in SL-4.
Per http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb406791&sliceId=1
Adobe have released a tarball of Flash 9.0.159.0 but no RPM
Kel has packaged it as flash-plugin-9.0.159 in the triumf repo at
http://mirror.triumf.ca/triumf/4xx

32-bit plugins such as Flash 9 do not work directly in 64-bit Mozilla.
There is a package "nspluginwrapper" which allows them to work.
Isabel reports some success, but it failed for me.

nspluginwrapper -v -a -u 
nspluginwrapper -v -i /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

Sound does not work in Flash 9 on some computers. May be AMD related.
Flash 7 is adequate for youtube and AFAIK training.triumf.ca; I still 
have Flash 7 tarballs if anyone needs it.

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