Flash Player 10 for 64-bit Linux

By "running fine", flashplayer 10.1 32-bit linux library may require some "massaging" to actually get it working.

E.G. on Debian Lenny 64-bit using 32-bit firefox 3.6.8 it requires at least these Lenny 32-bit emulation packages:

    ia32-libs

    ia32-libs-gtk

(this has been pretty well established for a while)

*Plus* you'lll have to grab the following libraries from a 32-bit Lenny system:

:/usr/local/firefox-3.6.8_i386$ ls -l *curl* *idn*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     19 2010-06-24 14:57 libcurl-gnutls.so.3 -> libcurl-gnutls.so.4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     23 2010-06-24 14:57 libcurl-gnutls.so.4 -> libcurl-gnutls.so.4.1.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 233992 2009-08-17 19:41 libcurl-gnutls.so.4.1.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     12 2010-06-07 10:22 libcurl.so.3 -> libcurl.so.4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     16 2010-06-07 10:22 libcurl.so.4 -> libcurl.so.4.1.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 271524 2010-03-26 23:27 libcurl.so.4.1.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    801 2008-06-06 21:29 libidn.la
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     17 2010-02-26 07:01 libidn.so.11 -> libidn.so.11.5.37
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 200280 2008-06-06 21:29 libidn.so.11.5.37

and plop them in the top level firefox install directory to get it working.  Otherwise you only see messages like

    "Adobe Flash Player error: could not load cURL library"

(Not terribly helpful)

This is in contrast to the 10.0 beta 64-bit flashplayer lib that worked fabulously (i had no issues with it ever, which can't be said of the 32-bit one).

I wonder just how difficult it would have been to fix it for the latest exploits, as they'd done for the 10.x beta 64-bit linux flashplayer previously for security issues?

This failure by the industry to fully support 64-bit applications is getting pretty pathetic by this point.

--stephen