Can't get CNN video sound ?? -[SOLVED]
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Thu Jul 3 23:39:41 UTC 2008
On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 19:34 -0400, William Case wrote:
> Hi Craig;
>
>
> On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 15:28 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 17:59 -0400, William Case wrote:
> > > Thanks Craig;
> > >
> > > On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 14:32 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 17:25 -0400, William Case wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 16:55 -0400, William Case wrote:
> > > [snip]
> > > > ----
> > > > you must not be checking too hard because
> > > > http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/9/Everything/x86_64/os/Packages/
> > > >
> > > > shows both an i386 and an x86_64 version
> > >
> > > Never been there before. Always relied on yum or yumex; neither showed
> > > the 32 bit libflashsupport. Went to the everything site, clicked on the
> > > rpm. It downloaded and installed itself -- now I have sound.
> > ----
> > I don't use yumex, never have.
> >
> > yum would have installed both i386 & x86_64 versions unless you have
> > some exclusion in yum.conf - I would look at yumex with suspicion if
> > that is the tool you used.
> >
>
> hmmmm -- curiouser and curiouser; in first attempt at installing
> libflashsupport I used yum not yumex.
>
> sudo yum install libflashsupport and got only the x86_64 version.
>
> After your next post, I su - to root and
>
> yum install libflashsupport -- with and without various versions of a 32
> and a i386 suffix and got nothing.
>
> Finally, on your advice, I browsed to the Everything site dug down
> to /Packages/ found libflashsupport-000-0.5.svn20070904.i386.rpm
> clicked on it; got a couple of download type guis I have never seen
> before. The rpm downloaded and installed the 32 bit package. And,
> voilá, I now have sound.
>
>
> > yum search libflashsupport should show both versions.
> >
> Yes, yum search did show both versions, but apparently didn't tell yum
> install about it.
----
POC is affirming your experiences but like nspluginwrapper, the x86_64
version is mostly worthless without the i386 version too because the
plugins we are discussing are 32 bit.
Perhaps someone should file a bugzilla entry
Craig
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