Bug 84697 – netscape-flash plugin doesn't load on amd64

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Ryan Pessa 2005-03-09 20:36:32 UTC]

I installed the Macromedia Flash plugin via the netscape-flash ebuild, which installs the same files that Firefox will download and install on its own, just system-wide instead of user only.  However, this plugin doesn't load in Firefox.
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /opt/netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so [/opt/netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory]
According to the reporter of bug 69887, this is a 32-bit plugin... if so, then why does the ebuild allow it to be installed on amd64?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Emerge netscape-flash on an amd64 system
2. Load Firefox

Actual Results:  
Plugin didn't load

Expected Results:  
Plugin should load, or portage shouldn't allow the plugin to be installed on amd64

Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/amd64/2004.3, gcc-3.4.3,
glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0, 2.6.9-gentoo-r14 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r14 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Feb 24 2005, 12:10:01)]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.4-r1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.59-r6, 2.13
sys-devel/automake:  1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.10-r4
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.8.1-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/bind
/var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.ccccom.com ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo
ftp://ftp.ndlug.nd.edu/pub/gentoo/ http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo
http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 X aalib acpi aim alsa audiofile avi bitmap-fonts bonobo canna cdr cjk
crypt cups curl curlwrappers dio divx4linux dvd dvdr dvdread encode esd fam flac
font-server fortran ftp gif gimpprint gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal
icq imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jp2 jpeg libwww lzw lzw-tiff mad mime mng
mozilla mp3 mpeg msn ncurses nls nocd nvidia offensive oggvorbis openal opengl
oscar oss pam pcre pdflib perl php png python qt quicktime readline real rtc
samba sdl ssl tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb
userlocales videos wmf xine xml xml2 xmms xosd xpm xrandr xv xvid xvmc yahoo
zlib linguas_en"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Benjamin Schindler (RETIRED) 2005-03-10 02:40:39 UTC]

It's marked amd64 so you can use it in conjunction with a 32bit browser.
You can emerge mozilla-firefox-bin to use flash or follow a guide on the forums on how to make 64bit konqueror use 32bit plugins. Beware, that if you do that, you can't load 64bit plugins on konqueror anymore.