CentOS - May 2007 - Good things about CentOS 5; problem with flash in seamonkey

I'd like to point out that overall I am quite pleased with CentOS 5,
although I am having more fun with it than I did with 4.4 and I knew
less about CentOS then (duh).

Most things seem to work fine, including a relatively smooth
installation from the DVD image I downloaded, although the number of
screensavers I can see (and this could be related to the ATI/dual head
problem) is pathetically low - there are only 5 or six.  Phleagh.  I
had no trouble reinstalling the border theme I had before, and
although I don't particularly like the new main menu construction, it
makes sense enough to be not too unworthwhile.  I'm curious about how
the suspend function works, how to reactivate (nothing seemed to work)
and, most importantly, how to get it OFF the main menu.

Anyway, I reinstalled Seamonkey 1.1.1, and it landed flawlessly,
although I had to look to find the x86_64 version.  It came without
any plugins, as usual, but I have tried reinstalling the flash player
plugin, and it just won't work, not even with nspluginwrapper
installed.  Is there some trick to this that I need to know (and
what?)?

Thanks.

-- 
Mark Hull-Richter, Linux Kernel Engineer
DATAllegro (www.datallegro.com)
85 Enterprise, Second Floor, Aliso Viejo, CA  92656
949-680-3082 - Office     949-330-7691 - fax
Ask me about CentOS Linux, and escape from Windows forever!

On 5/2/07, Mark Hull-Richter <mhullrich at gmail.com> wrote:
> Anyway, I reinstalled Seamonkey 1.1.1, and it landed flawlessly,
> although I had to look to find the x86_64 version.
There's a reason.....

> It came without any plugins, as usual, but I have tried reinstalling the
flash player
> plugin, and it just won't work, not even with nspluginwrapper
> installed.  Is there some trick to this that I need to know (and
> what?)?
No trick. Sane people don't use the x86_64 browsers because the common
plugins don't support x86_64 yet. No flash for you on x86_64. A simple
amount of googling or checking the list archives would have revealed
this deep secret.

This is why (multiple times on the list, and many times since you've
joined) we tell desktop users to stick with x86, even on x86_64
hardware, unless they're willing to deal with the hassle of
maintaining a multi-arch system.



-- 
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
George Orwell

Mark Hull-Richter wrote:
> I'd like to point out that overall I am quite pleased with CentOS 5,
> although I am having more fun with it than I did with 4.4 and I knew
> less about CentOS then (duh).
> 
> Most things seem to work fine, including a relatively smooth
> installation from the DVD image I downloaded, although the number of
> screensavers I can see (and this could be related to the ATI/dual head
> problem) is pathetically low - there are only 5 or six.  Phleagh.  I
> had no trouble reinstalling the border theme I had before, and
> although I don't particularly like the new main menu construction, it
> makes sense enough to be not too unworthwhile.  I'm curious about how
> the suspend function works, how to reactivate (nothing seemed to work)
> and, most importantly, how to get it OFF the main menu.
> 
> Anyway, I reinstalled Seamonkey 1.1.1, and it landed flawlessly,
> although I had to look to find the x86_64 version.  It came without
> any plugins, as usual, but I have tried reinstalling the flash player
> plugin, and it just won't work, not even with nspluginwrapper
> installed.  Is there some trick to this that I need to know (and
> what?)?
> 
> Thanks.

Myself installed flash player from rpmforge, and it works OK under 
firefox. Perhaps you may give it a try?

Mark Hull-Richter wrote:
>                                    x86_64
>                                                          flash player
> plugin              won't work
Good observation. There is no 64bit flash. Neither for Linux nor for
Windows nor for you-name-it.

Go tell Adobe about that. Or use a 32bit browser (and needed libs) on
your machine. Before you find out that there is no 64bit java browser
plugin either, yet.

Or go 32bit all the way if you don't want to maintain a multi-arch
system.

Not that this issue comes up in regular intervals on this mailing list.

Ralph
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On 5/2/07, Ralph Angenendt <ra+centos at br-online.de>
wrote:
>
> Or go 32bit all the way if you don't want to maintain a multi-arch
> system.
>
I don't mind - it's a minor hassle at the moment.
> Not that this issue comes up in regular intervals on this mailing list.
>
Yes, it does seem to do that....

-- 
Mark Hull-Richter, Linux Kernel Engineer
DATAllegro (www.datallegro.com)
85 Enterprise, Second Floor, Aliso Viejo, CA  92656
949-680-3082 - Office     949-330-7691 - fax
Ask me about CentOS Linux, and escape from Windows forever!