Adobe releases 32-bit Flash update for Linux

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 16 June 2010, David Boles wrote:
>On 6/16/2010 2:28 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Wednesday 16 June 2010, David Boles wrote:
>>> On 6/16/2010 12:17 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>> On Wednesday 16 June 2010, Steve Underwood wrote:
>>>>> On 06/16/2010 09:55 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> This is what they released last week, and its by far their buggiest
>>>>> effort to date.
>>>>>
>>>>> Steve
>>>>
>>>> I believe this may be a newer build.  Not extensively checked, but it
>>>> played a couple of cnn's video ok.
>>>
>>> Is this helpful?
>>>
>>> Version Test for Adobe Flash Player
>>>
>>> http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/155/tn_15507.html
>>
>> About plugins shows it correctly, that page does not.
>> [root at coyote Download]# ls -l| grep flash
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 gene gene  11796480 2010-06-07 11:43
>> flashplayer10_1_rc7_linux_060210.so.tar
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 gene gene   4121963 2010-05-02 06:37
>> flash-plugin-10.0.45.2- release.i386.rpm
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 gene gene   4755181 2010-06-16 11:52
>> flash-plugin-10.1.53.64- release.i386.rpm
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>> The above is what I have installed.
As I said, this is the one installed and linked.  This listing is from 
~/Downloads, not whats installed.

>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 gene gene   3731155 2010-04-16 21:31
>> libflashplayer-10.0.45.2.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 gene gene   9570824 2010-01-27 00:05 libflashplayer.so*
>
>Everything you list is old and why does it appear that you have so many
>versions of Flash installed?
>
>The 10.1 r53 is the latest. The .4x versions are the buggy releases. As
>I read it.
>
>Since there is no longer a 64bit Flash plugin available you will have to
>use a 32bit browser.

I am, swiftfox-3.6.3, on an AMD phenom system.  Your version of firefox kept 
updating itself till it was busted.  So I'm using what works.  Sorry if that 
doesn't fit the red hat approved mold.  Shrug... 

>The site (the URL I posted) is an official Adobe Flash ID site. If it
>misidentifies what you have installed I would think that the problem
>might be yours.

I believe I would rather believe what about:plugins tells me.  Swiftfox uses 
what is in ~/swiftfox/plugins, and that came from the tarball above.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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