Unable to install macromedia flash player on x86_64 arch

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

man, 04.04.2005 kl. 16.46 skrev Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams:
> On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 16:36 +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> > Strange if fc should deliver a 64 bit firefox, as there are so many
> > external things depending on it to be 32 bit...
> 
> None of which are Fedora's responsibility. Feel free to petition-bomb
> Macromedia and Sun.

Yes, but still... It isn't much use to get the users (who often wants to
use the distro as a platform) into unnecessary trouble - at least as
long as there isn't any real benefit of running Firefox in 64 bit
mode...

Of course the user could uninstall the i386 package and then install a
i386 package - but that would make for:
a) upgrade hell
b) possible dep hell -> more upgrade hell

Which would scare (new) users into thinking "Linux isn't userfriendly",
choose not to learn it (scared of at early stage), tell others this, and
choose non-Linux solutions over Linux ones - which may in turn be bad
for future RH revenue.

Just a though. It isn't like we are going to get a pure x86-64 system
anyway.

Kyrre