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