Where's Flash Player 9 for my x86_64 linux?

Question

I'm waiting for that plugin for so long. I can't view
anything it's made in Flash 8 or 9. Last days, you finally release
player for x86 linux, but what about 64 bit?? Why are you release
player's for Windows so quickly and make Linux users wait. Are they
better or what??

Answer 1

You still need a 32-bit browser to use Flash Player because
the library is compiled for the 32-bit ABI. This shouldn't be a
problem if you use a standards compliant distro. The x86_64
architecture is a multilib architecture. Ergo, if you are using a
standards compliant distro, it will support both the 32-bit and
64-bit ABI side-by-side. There's really no reason to provide a
64-bit version when the 32-bit version works just fine.
Here are two ways to get Flash Player 9 installed on the
x86_64 architecture. You can apply this
patch
to the installer before executing. Or you can edit the installer
script and comment out the line that causes it to exit. Look for
this section in the installer (around line 250) and comment out the
exit_cpu $TEMPARCH line.
i[3456]86)
ARCH=i386
exit_cpu $TEMPARCH
esac
The installer is being too stringent in excluding the x86_64
architecture. It really should look for the 32-bit program
interpreter if it detects an x86_64 architecture and only exit if
THAT isn't found. Of course, that would be no guarantee that a
32-bit browser existed on the target machine.