[juneau-lug] 64-bit flash, Debian Etch

I was considering going the 32-bit chroot solution for flash, etc. support on 
my AMD64 laptop.  Not because I'm spending a whole lot of time on por^H^H^H 
youtube, but because some sites like Juneau Empire have small bits of flash 
on them that Debian's stock iceweasel doesn't like without a flash player.

There are a lot of very long involved howtos to set up a chroot, cross compile 
firefox, etc.  But here's a very simple setup that works for Debian Etch 
(possibly AMD64 Ubuntu as well - I only have a 32 bit Ubuntu 7.04 disk here 
so can't test):

http://www.dipconsultants.com/debian/

The only caveat to these instructions is that if you have already installed 
gnash or libflash-mozplugin to get flash 4 support, you should remove them so 
that the nspluginwrapper flash 9 plugin will take priority.  (I had 
libflash-mozplugin installed, and my browser was still failing the Adobe 
flash test page.)

Now I can get all my flash advertisements  on MySpace!  (in Italian even! 
Gotta love geographical IP ranges.)  Now if Sun can get a real live java 
plugin I'll be happy.  The GCJ plugin doesn't work all of the time.

James
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