Re: chroot firefox flash plugin

[lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 10:45:52AM +1000, Norval Watson wrote:
> I tried your idea..
> 
> norv@pan64:~$ dchroot -c ia32
> Executing shell in 'ia32' chroot.
> norv@pan64:~$ logout
> norv@pan64:~$ cd /home/norv/install_flash_player_7_linux/
> norv@pan64:~/install_flash_player_7_linux$ ./flashplayer-installer
> 
> ERROR: Your architecture, \'x86_64\', is not supported by the
>        Macromedia Flash Player installer.
> 
> norv@pan64:~/install_flash_player_7_linux$
> 
> It seems to have jumped out of the chroot and tried to install the
> plugin in the 64bit Firefox..

No it just sees x86_64 from uname -m

Try this:

linux32 dchroot -c ia32

That inserts a wrapper around the uname() libc call so it returns i686
instead of x86_64 and hence anything running should think it is on a
p3/p4 or something instead.

Len Sorensen