RHEL 5.1->5.2 upgrade - part 2

["Robert G. (Doc) Savage" <dsavage@peaknet.net>]

In part 1 of this trilogy I described difficulties with the Evolution
mail client and the GNOME desktop in what should have been a routine
upgrade from RHEL v5 Update 1 to Update 2.

In this part I'll describe another problem that has baffled me so far. I
had a similar problem with Firefox in RHEL 5 General Release and Update
1, but I don't recall how I fixed it.

The core of the problem is Adobe's refusal to release a 64-bit version
of their Shockwave-Flash viewer. Whenever I go to a web site with
Shockwave content, I'm offered two fixes. I can either "Click here to
download plugin", or I can click on an "Install Missing Plugins..."
helper button.

Both take you to a "Plugin Finder Service" window that advises "No
suitable plugins were found" followed by "Unknown Plugin
(application/x-shockwave-flash)" and a Manual Install button. Clicking
on that button takes me to Adobe's Flash download site. It allows me to
download the latest flash-plugin-9.0.124.0-release.i386.rpm.
Unfortunately installing that RPM doesn't fix the problem.

That "Plugin Finder Service" window offers a second option -- a link to
"Find out more about Plugins or manually find missing plugins." It takes
me to http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:7 where I can
find a download link to http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/.
Unfortunately that link tells me "We are unable to locate a Web player
that matches your platform and browser".

The essential problem here is a 32-bit plugin for a 64-bit browser. This
gap should be bridged by installing the nspluginwrapper-0.9.91.5-21.el5
RPM.

Can any of you 64-bitters offer a solution?

--Doc


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