Cannot Install Flash Player x86_64

plk · 05-10-2007, 05:25 AM

Hi,
I'm having some trouble installing Macromedia flash player 9 on my SuSE 10.2 . The error I get when opening the installaton file is :

ERROR: Your architecture, \'x86_64\', is not supported by the
Adobe Flash Player installer.

The weird thing is that I switched from Gnome to KDE lately (Thank god for that) and I know that the installation file worked no problem before KDE (same for beryl) . I'm kinda confused on what to do.

I downloaded the x86_64 version of the flash player from macromedia.com.

I'm running a Dell Inspiron 6400.
Intel Core 2 Duo
SuSE Linux 10.2

Any clue on whats going on ? Thanks in advance

Gethyn · 05-10-2007, 05:39 AM

Where did you find an x86_64 version of Flash on Macromedia? Is there a link? I wasn't aware that such a thing existed. Usually you need to run a 32-bit browser on a 64-bit platform in order to use Flash.

plk · 05-10-2007, 06:48 AM

this is the url for the flash player download x86_64 :

http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/downl...ShockwaveFlash

plk · 05-10-2007, 06:50 AM

Just forget it .. I dont know why but after installing the kaffeine plugin for mozilla firefox the flash player 9 works fine now .. weird .. weird ..
thanks anyway ..

plk

Gethyn · 05-11-2007, 08:41 AM

When I followed that link, all it gave was an x86 version (although I am running an x86 distro, so I guess it may have auto-detected). Anyway, glad your problem has disappeared.

jay73 · 05-11-2007, 02:22 PM

What, there is a 64 bit flash player now? People have been asking for it for months and months. I think the news would be all over the place if it had finally been released. Are you sure you are really running flash? Aren't you just running kaffeine inside your browser?

jlo_sandog · 05-11-2007, 03:17 PM

There's no flash for x86_64. Please people do a little research before posting.
http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2....html#comments

plk · 05-12-2007, 04:36 AM

My bad , what I meant was a x86 version not a x86_64. I do apologies for any incovenience. As for my flash player I know and I'm sure I'm running the flash player on my firefox not the kaffeine, although its after installing the kaffeine plugin that it started working. I don't really know what happenedbut it's working great at the moment :-) I just need to figure out how to plugin a jre in firefox. I think it has to do with a link to the java plugin or smth, will do some research this time

cheers

plk