Re: flash for amd64 [FAILED and SOLVED]

[Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca>]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 11:09:37PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 08:16:07PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> > Restarting my own thread.
> > 
> > Since nspluginwrapper can't be backported from Sid/Lenny to Etch, I've
> > gone ahead and installed an etch-ia32 chroot on my etch-amd64 Athlon
> > box.
> > 
> > I'm running Konqueror and needing to access some sites that require
> > flashplayer.
> > 
> > In the chroot, I installed the same konqueror packages and
> > nspluginwrapper.  I installed the flashplayer-nonfree.
> 
> If you're using an i386 chroot, you don't need nspluginwrapper?

Sorry, my error (why do all the pacakges have to have such similar
names), I meant konqueror-nsplugins.

> 
> > So this is in a way a [FAILED] report in that to view flash sites I had to
> > install a chroot that takes up 491 MB (I put /srv on its own LV) instead
> > of a simple wrapper package that work for sid.  However, at the end of
> > the day, it is a [SOLVED] report in that I can view flash sites.
> 
> You could run sid? Or backport nspluginwrapper?

nspluginwrapper can't be backported due to conflicting dependencies with
etch.  I'm not going to run sid on what amounts to a production
workstation/server.

Thanks,

Doug.