Flash plugin: stupid question

[Mariano Lopez Reta]

Jonathan Berry wrote:

>On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 18:21:30 -0800 (PST), Antonio Olivares
><olivares14031 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>--- Mariano Lopez Reta <mlreta at datafull.com> wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>Hi, all.
>>>
>>>Following the instructions on Yolinux, I uninstalled
>>>from my x86-64 (rpm
>>>-e) both firefox and mozplugger, and then I
>>>installed both 32 bit
>>>counterparts. Problem is, Firefox's "about" keeps
>>>saying x86-64, thus
>>>Flash player installer refuses to install. Any
>>>suggestions?
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance,
>>>
>>>Mariano
>>>Tortuguitas, Argentina
>>>
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>>Mariano,
>>   Download it from
>>http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash
>>
>># tar -zxvf install_flash_player
>># cd install_flash_player_7_linux
>>[olivares at localhost install_flash_player_7_linux]$ ls
>>flashplayer-installer  libflashplayer.so  Readme.txt
>>flashplayer.xpt        Readme.htm
>>[olivares at localhost
>>install_flash_player_7_linux]$./flashplayer-installer
>>
>>Should install it for you.  If it doesn't then
>>hopefully someone else can help you.
>>
>>Hope it helps,
>>
>>Antonio
>>    
>>
>
>This won't work since he is running x86_64.  The installer is too
>smart.  It realizes it is running in a 64-bit OS and refuses to
>install, even though it works fine with a 32-bit browser.    You can
>get an RPM (which is better since Fedora is RPM based) of the flash
>plugin from:
>http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/1367214/com/flash-plugin-7.0.25-1.i386.rpm.html
>
>Jonathan
>
>  
>
Jon,

Thank you very much. I have a flash-enabled Firefox browser now. Now, 
would the rpm work if I had the x86-64 version of the browser? Remember 
that I replaced with the 32 bit version.

Thanks again!

Mariano