Cannot get Flash installed for Firefox or Chrome on Fedora Core 12 (64-bit)

I think the basic problem is somewhat different than it appears to be.

(a) I really don't think that Adobe is not producing 64-bit plugins.  I found some stuff on the

web, and I have a 64-bit browser at work running on a 64-bit system with Flash working just

fine (I just can't get to that system cause I just had heart surgery and am stuck at home).

(b) which means the real problem is that when I go to http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

The little code that determines which flash plugin I get is wrong.  This page is full of

javascript, that, I assume, is checking my Operating System and my browser to

select which flash plugin is being downloaded, and it always gives me only the 32-bit

version, instead of the 64-bit version.

there is an option to select a different OS, but not to select 32/64-bit versions.

So there are two approaches to this.

The short one is to ask if there is a way for me to download a 64-bit version of the Flash Player

plugin for Chrome and Firefox for Linux, by hand, instead of by the little java script that says

what I am supposed to want?  Is there a file that I can just download that is the same as

adobe-release-i386-1.0.1.noarch.rpm, except it would be for an x86_64 system (AMD if it matters).

The download says this is coming from http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/

but I can't access that direclty.

The longer one is to ask how it knows what type of system I'm on, and why it would then

report the wrong information?  The java script for the http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

has 14 javascript parts, including 5 other files that are included by name, and I'm not sure

how to debug the javascript code to determine where it is asking for the OS, the processor

architecture, the browser, and the 32/64-bit nature of the system, so that it can piece together

the name of the plugin to offer up for download.

This seems then similar to the problem I had in installing Chrome.  When I tried to install

it, it complained that my LSB level was too low.  I was eventually able to determine that it

was not that my LSB level was too low, but that I was missing the lsb package althogether,

so that when the Chrome install asked for the LSB level it got back nothing -- or a "program

not found" error, which it then treated and reported as being too low.  Adding in the redhat-lsb

package resolved that problem.

This could be similar -- not properly reporting that I have a 64-bit

system is interpreted to mean I have 32.  So if I knew how it finds out, I

can check was is wrong there, and fix that.

jim

Run 'rpm -q firefox chromium google-chrome', that will tell you what architecture your browser should have. It will be 'i686' (32bit) or x86_64 (64bit).

Also, the 32bit plugin for flash will not load in a 64bit browser, which would explain why your browser simply doesn't see any flash plugin. You can run 'tail -f ~/.xsession-errors' while you launch firefox or chrome, and you should see an error stating 'can't load libflashplayer.so, wrong ELF class'.

To install 32-bit firefox on 64bit Fedora, you have to remove firefox (ie: 'yum remove firefox') then install the Fedora 12 32bit repository, and install Firefox fresh again ('yum install firefox.i686). Unfortunately I can't tell you how to add the 32bit repositories off the top of my head.

You are using a 64bit system, are you using a 32 orr 64 bit browser?

As you can see yum get you i386 package which indicates an 32 architecture flash but this would need a 32 bit firefox or chrome, you should check what version of those you have installed.

There is no flush for 64 browser's so if you are using one then you wont be able to automatically install flash for those browsers.

You can either force install an 32 bit browser or a wrapper for the 64 browser.

Sorry, I don't know anything about Linux; all I can give you is this download page

http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/fp_distribution3.html

and the Flash Player 10.1 Admin Guide

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/flash_player_admin_guide.html

Hopefully you can find the solution for your problem.