[ALUG] nspluginwrapper

[Wayne Stallwood]

On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 19:05 +0000, Peter Alcibiades wrote:
> Has anyone successfully used this to install Flash 9 on AMD64 Debian?  If so 
> how?
> 
I have heard that it is possible but I am not sure how. Personally I
just operate a 32bit installation of Firefox.

On Ubuntu I just have a script that launches a 32 bit copy of firefox
thus

#!/bin/sh
export GTK_PATH=/usr/lib32/gtk-2.0
export PANGO_RC_FILE=/etc/pango32/pangorc
linux32 /usr/local/firefox_x86/firefox $@

pangorc looks like this

[Pango]
ModuleFiles=/etc/pango32/pango.modules
[PangoX]
AliasFiles=/etc/pango/pangox.aliases

Make sure you have the following packages (ubuntu naming here so it
_should_ be the same for you) linux32 ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk
lib32asound2

Make sure you have no 64 bit instances of firefox running when you
launch this otherwise strange things happen (like another thread of the
64bit copy gets spawned) 

Of course that is still a bit of a bodge as the correct way to do it is
to build yourself a 32bit chroot but it seems like a bit of a waste for
one application and I never did figure out how to get sound working
across a chroot

> Wishing I had just installed 32 bit in the first place but dreading what it 
> will take to move to it...
> 

Oh I hear you, you have no idea how many times I have thought that
myself. However this was one of the larger annoyances and most if not
all of the others have been resolved now too

wayne