[CentOS] Adobe's 64-bit flash for Linux Was: Re: looking for cool

Fri Sep 17 22:06:56 UTC 2010
R P Herrold <herrold at owlriver.com>

On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:

> Actually, my manager just laid something on me this morning: the new
> release of Adobe's 64-bit flash for Linux. I suppose I need to get it from
> Adobe, then find who's running 64 bit and not 32 bit....

On 64 bit, the [manual] install was as simply as moving a 
backstop copy of the old module to one side for testing, and 
manually positioning the new .so at:

 	/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins

and restarting Firefox ... I've not packaged it up yet

-- Russ herrold

[herrold at centos-5 plugins]$ pwd ; ls -al ; uname -a
/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins
total 19760
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root     4096 Sep 16 10:45 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root     4096 Sep  8 12:39 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10601968 Sep 16 10:45 libflashplayer.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  9570952 Dec 30  2009 libflashplayer.so-OLD
Linux centos-5.first.lan 2.6.18-194.11.3.el5xen #1 SMP Mon Aug 
30 16:55:32 EDT 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[herrold at centos-5 plugins]$