On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 00:53:21 +0000 "Amos Shapira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 15/12/2007, Erez D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ok, it was a 64bit problem ... > > > > w64codecs are a joke, it doesnt include anything > > w32codecs will not install on a 64bit machine (using apt-get) > > i had to extract the w32codecs and install manually > > it didn't work (of course) on a 64bit mplayer ... > > so i had to install mplayer32 > > which had conflicts with other files on my system, and again i had to > > install manually > > I'm not sure about Ubuntu but in current stable Debian the solution is > to install a chroot of 32-bit environment. That's how I got Firefox > with Flash, Skype and other proprietary stuff to play nice on my amd64 > Debian Etch. "schroot" makes this simpler to use. > > I think I heard that Debian Lenny has aligned with other distro's in > this area and started providing i386 libraries in the amd64 version. > I'm running sid and the only problem I had is with skype, who's static version still compiled against libsigc-2.0.so.0 dynamically but I solved that by putting the 32 bit version in it's directory and putting a script in /usr/local/bin containing #!/bin/sh LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/skype /usr/local/skype/skype Didn't try the said file but I don't have problems up to now with mplayer. Didn't see a codecs package though, 32 or 64 bit. Firefox works nicely with flash although I am running the flashblock addon that disables all flash unless enabled explicitly > Just FYI. > > --Amos > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]