Flash Player 10 for 64-bit Linux

[rikrok1591]

I find an announcement that FP 10 for 64-bit Linux is "temporarily closed". There is no date as to when this announcement was made.

The only hint as to how long before something will be available is some mention of native support in "an upcoming major release of Flash Player".

Will FP 10 for 64-bit Linux be available at some future time?

Are we waiting for FP 11? If so, what is the target release date for 11?

[pwillener]

Please note that this is a user-to-user forum; we do not have any more information on the subject than you have.  My personal guess is that the 64-bit FP version will be 10.2.

On the other hand, the current FP runs fine on 32-bit browsers in 64-bit operating systems.

[Stephen_Dowdy_Boulder_CO_]

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