Gutsy Gibbon and shockwave

Damien Hull dhull at digitaloverload.net
Sun Sep 30 04:30:59 UTC 2007


It looks like I was using Flash and thought it was shockwave. How well 
does shockwave work under wine?


David L. Willson wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 20:44 -0400, Michael R. Head wrote:
>   
>> On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 18:36 -0600, David L. Willson wrote:
>>     
>>> As I understand it, shock and flash work fine on Linux32, but not on
>>> Linux64, or at least not without getting worked.
>>>       
>> Flash in gutsy works on both ia32 and amd64 architectures now. This is
>> handled by the plugin finger that's been newly developed. On amd64, it
>> installs the plugin wrapper and the regular flash for ia32.
>>
>> I haven't ever known of a shockwave plugin for Linux. Got a link I can
>> test?
>>     
>
> I was wr- mistaken.  There ain't no shockwave for Linux, at least, not
> without wine.
>
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>>> On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 16:00 -0800, Damien Hull wrote:
>>>       
>>>> I was under the impression that shockwave wasn't available for Linux. 
>>>> However, I am currently running Gutsy Gibbon on my main workstation and 
>>>> websites with shockwave seem to work.
>>>>
>>>> What's the story behind shockwave and Linux?
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>       
>> -- 
>> Michael R. Head <burner at suppressingfire.org>
>> http://picasaweb.google.com/demiri.head.wedding
>>
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