From: | David Relson <relson@×××××××××××××.com> | ||
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To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] Native 32 and 64-bit linux Flash 10 Preview Release available | ||
Date: | Sun, 19 Sep 2010 19:06:18 | ||
Message-Id: | 20100919140703.0baeab05@osage.osagesoftware.com | ||
In Reply to: | [gentoo-user] Native 32 and 64-bit linux Flash 10 Preview Release available by Walter Dnes |
1 | On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 02:05:51 -0400 |
2 | Walter Dnes wrote: |
3 | |
4 | > This is of interest to those of us running old versions of Flash, |
5 | > especially on 64-bit installs without 32-bit support (looks in |
6 | > mirror<g>). |
7 | > |
8 | > Download site is http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html |
9 | > To find out where to install, go to "about:plugins" in Firefox, and |
10 | > see where your current version of libflashplayer.so is installed. In |
11 | > my case it's /opt/Adobe/flash-player/libflashplayer.so |
12 | > |
13 | > To install... |
14 | > |
15 | > * for 64-bit version download the file |
16 | > http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashplayer_square_p1_64bit_linux_091510.tar.gz |
17 | > |
18 | > * for 32-bit version download the file |
19 | > http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashplayer_square_p1_32bit_linux_091510.tar.gz |
20 | > |
21 | > * exit Firefox |
22 | > |
23 | > * mv your current copy of libflashplayer.so to another directory as a |
24 | > backup, in case the new one doesn't work for you |
25 | > |
26 | > * extract libflashplayer.so from the downloaded tar.gz into the |
27 | > directory which you removed libflashplayer.so from. |
28 | > |
29 | > * fire up Firefox, and away you go |
30 | > |
31 | > * note that when the release version comes out, you'll need to |
32 | > manually remove the Preview Release libflashplayer.so |
33 | |
34 | I've just installed it and it's working nicely for me. |
35 | |
36 | Thanks for the link and install instructions. After creating |
37 | directory /opt/Adobe/flash-player/ and extracting the tarball, |
38 | I needed to create a symlink for |
39 | /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so, and then restart firefox. |
40 | |
41 | David |