nspluginwrapper.i386? Huh?

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Sat Dec 8 05:07:25 UTC 2007


John Austin:
>> http://gwenole.beauchesne.info/projects/nspluginwrapper/

Tom Horsley:
> I know what it is, I don't know why there were both
> .x86_64 and .i386 versions of the rpm installed. A 32
> bit wrapper to run 32 bit plugins seems completely
> idiotic :-).

There's more to it than that.  Such as running *NON-LINUX* 32 bit
plug-ins on your 32-bit Linux OS.

"nspluginwrapper is an Open Source compatibility plugin for Netscape 4
(NPAPI) plugins. That is, it enables you to use plugins on platforms
they were not built for. For example, you can use the Adobe Flash plugin
on Linux/x86_64, NetBSD and FreeBSD platforms."

e.g. Before we had Linux versions of the Flash player, people could use
things *like* the above to run the Windows Flash player software.

-- 
[tim at bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr
2.6.23.1-10.fc7 i686 i386

Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5.  Today, it's FC7.

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