FlashPlayer & SUSE 10.0 64bit architecture support

riba43 · 11-07-2005, 09:10 AM

Hi,

That is more a "rhethoric" question.
When Macromedia is going to give us FlashPlayer for 64 bit system??
Whenever I try to install it I always get the same message :

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

Or maybe, there is somebody out there, who just did it? If so, HOW???

FireFerum · 11-07-2005, 09:16 AM

http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/178/42

I installed FlashPlayer following those instructions and everything worked fine. Give it a try.

riba43 · 11-07-2005, 10:22 AM

Hi FireFerum,

I have checked YAST and There is, flash, checked and I suppose that should do. But it is not working. Thanks anyway.

niztec · 11-07-2005, 08:29 PM

I made I post earlier that explains how I got it to work on 64 bit system. I did it on slamd64 but it should work on suse too.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=368895

riba43 · 11-07-2005, 11:58 PM

Hi niztec,

How did you install flash player? After extracting the file and trying to start it, I only get this message: "ERROR: Your architecture, \'x86_64\', is not supported by the Macromedia Flash Player installer. and then the installation stopped.

niztec · 11-08-2005, 06:10 AM

If you look at my link. I opened the shell script in text editor ie kate, emacs and removed two sections

Then I removed two sections of the flashplayer-installer script

# the architecture is not supported
exit_cpu () {
echo ""
echo "ERROR: Your architecture, '$1', is not supported by the"
echo " $PRODUCT installer."
echo ""
exit 1
}

and

# check architecture
TEMPARCH=`uname -m`
case $TEMPARCH in
i[3456]86)
ARCH=i386
;;
*)
exit_cpu $TEMPARCH
;;
esac

Then save the file and run the modified version of the script

riba43 · 11-09-2005, 10:54 AM

Hi niztec,

I was busy, now I am back here.
I was thinking about Flash Player. You see, Konqueror is not a problem. I do not know whether it is using flash plug in or something else, but I can play video and/or radio there. The problem is Firefox. Somehow I can not get it working even with your suggestions. I will try it again. Will see if it will work.

thanks for now. I will let you know about the results.

niztec · 11-09-2005, 03:41 PM

One thing you might want to make sure if you followed all my instructions is when the flashplayer script asks you for the location of firefox. I had mine in the /home folder. Suse by default i believe keeps it in the /opt/mozilla folder. Not sure if you got that far but if you did maybe that will help

FireFerum · 11-09-2005, 06:29 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by riba43
Hi FireFerum,

I have checked YAST and There is, flash, checked and I suppose that should do. But it is not working. Thanks anyway.

Try this: take the checkmark off from YAST. I think that will uninstall it. Then, go back in and put the checkmark back. Maybe that will fix it?