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Java 6 browser plugin for x86_64

Bart Verwilst — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:25:58 +0000

We’ve had the pleasure of using the 64bit Flash player in the last couple of weeks. This week it’s time for Sun to do the same thing! The latest update of Java 6 ( Update 12 ) has a working 64 bit Java browser plugin!

No packages are available yet for Ubuntu/Debian, but they will surely follow soon!

Seems like 2009 will be the year of the 64bit Linux desktop

Native 64bit Flash on Ubuntu 8.10 x86_64

Bart Verwilst — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 00:17:18 +0000

By default, Intrepid on both i386 and x86_64 comes with the 32bit flashplayer 10 through nspluginwrapper. A lot of the crashes people see come from nspluginwrapper itself, which is very unstable in Hardy.

A new version of nspluginwrapper in Intrepid fixes a lot of crashes though, so you’re better of with Intrepid in any case.

However, since mid november, Adobe finally came through on one of the most requested feature Linux users around the globe begged for/requested, real 64bit support!

For an alpha version, i must say it is pretty rock solid on my system. Let’s get on and replace the default 32bit flashplayer/nspluginwrapper combo with this new goodie!

First of all, let’s remove any already installed versions of Flash, along with nspluginwrapper.

# apt-get remove flashplugin-nonfree nspluginwrapper

Next up, download the 64-bit Flash plugin from Adobe Labs. Select the tar.gz.

Unpack it and copy the resulting libflashplayer.so into /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins if you want to enable it for all users, or in ~/.mozilla/plugins to enable it only for your current user. Restarting Firefox and browsing to about:plugins should show the newly installed Flash plugin.

Enjoy your native 64-bit Flashplayer

Zimbra Server for Ubuntu x86_64 soon on a server near you!

Bart Verwilst — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:59:07 +0000

Finally the last commit is done in the Zimbra repository to enable 64bit Ubuntu builds, something that was sorely missing for quite a while, as seen in bugs like this one. Up until now, I had to use a CentOS 5.1 x86_64 server to host my zimbra, which always felt pretty icky to me… The new build isnt out yet, but at least i know it will arrive Real Soon Now ™! And there was much rejoicing!