Flash Apps On Linux

[Severin Schoepke]

Hi Wade,


Wade Smart schrieb:
> [snip]
>
> Can we run flash apps on linux? I havent ever seen one but that doesnt
> mean they arent out there

At the Moment there's the Flash 7 plugin for Mozilla browsers available 
packaged for Ubuntu 32 Bit systems. On 32 Bit systems you can also use 
the beta version of the Flash 9 plugin (It's easy to install: google it 
(it's somewhere on the Adobe site), and copy the libflashplayer.so file 
in the downloaded archive into your ~/.mozilla/plugins directory).
You can use both of these plugins also on 64 Bit systems, but this needs 
a bit of fiddling (installing a 32 Bit Firefox). You can find howto's 
for this solution in the Ubuntu forums...
A last solution would be to use Gnash: Gnash is a free and open 
implementation of Flash. It contains a standalone player as well as 
Mozilla plugins and it runs on 32 as well as 64 Bit systems. However, it 
is not very mature yet and I don't know how good it works. If you want 
to give it a try, you have to google it, it must be on the gnu website...

HTH, Severin