Re: Flash in 64-bit environment - Solved

[Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org>]

On 14/07/11 11:45, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2011-07-14 12:14 +0200, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
>
> > I have no strong objection to running genuine firefox, but on starting
> > it, it returns
> > /usr/local/firefox/firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries:
> > libstdc++.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> >
> > Of course I know it's there, in /lib, so why doesn't firefox?
>
> Presumably because it's a 32-bit program.  Mozilla still does not
> advertise 64-bit firefox versions a lot, but you can download them from
> http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/5.0.1/linux-x86_64/.

Ah, excellent; that works. Thank you Sven. That's one step forward :)

... And I've got Flash back; Another large step forward.

Now to uninstall iceweasel.  Sorry, Debian, but the real thing just works!

Thanks to all who've helped with this.
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