AMD-64 and Flash plugin

[Simon Rönnqvist]

   Hi!

I remember trying some kind of libflash thing that I found as a  
Synaptic-package (in Ubuntu ;-) too... didn't really work... I think  
it might work with some old or simple flash movies only.
Since there's no flash plugin from Macromedia for AMD-64 and it's not  
opensource so others can't fix it.
Here's a petition if you want to encourage Macromedia to do something  
about it: http://www.petitiononline.com/lin64swf/petition.html

Meanwhile the solution is to install a mini-installation of the i386  
system in a so called chroot-environment. In this a 32bit version of  
Firefox (or whatever browser you use) can be ran with which you can  
use flash-plugin, java, realplayer, Skype and whatever other  
non-64bit application you might need. There are also more packages  
available through Synaptic/Kynaptic in 32bit, ie. Wine which is not  
available in the 64bit system.

Using a 32 bit chroot environment doesn't mean rebooting into an i386  
installation, once installed all the applications ran in the 32bit  
environment run much the same way as they would outside of it... you  
hardly notice any difference.

Since Ubuntu is more common than Kubuntu but kind of is the same  
might want to Google for something like: flash ubuntu 64 32 chroot howto
Personally I used these instructions: http://ubuntuforums.org/ 
showthread.php?t=24575

I had some problems with the actual installation with the flash plug- 
in though and had to do some small hacking on my own. It wouldn't  
install through the browser, and when I tried the shellscript  
installer it refused to install cause it thought that I was using an  
unknown architecture (amd64 ;-) even though I used it within the  
chroot-environment. Well I worked it around by hacking the script to  
ignore my kind of architecture. But this wasn't mentioned on the  
howto page, so maybe I did something else wrong which caused this...  
so you just try with the instructions and also remember to read  
peoples' comments below, since they contain some useful stuff too.

Good luck!

   cheers, Simon


On Aug 26, 2005, at 21:27, Daniel Axtell wrote:

> Does anyone know if it's possible to get a working
> Flash plugin for AMD-64 linux?  Kynaptic shows a
> package:
> libflash-mozplugin 0.4.11-2
>
> But when I install it, Firefox just crashes on any
> page with flash.  Macromedia's flash plugin for linux
> won't install when it detects a 64-bit system.  Is
> this even doable, or am I better off running my whole
> system with a 32-bit OS if I expect any plugins to
> work?
>
> Thanks,
> Dan
>
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