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Mar302010

Gretting Google Chrome 64Bit working on Fedora 12

Tuesday, March 30, 2010 at 7:17AM

I had some issues initially getting chrome to work correctly, as apparently I have the 32Bit Firefox + Flash plugin installed, so the trick of placing that flash library in the google directory didnt quite work. If you have an actual 64 Bit install of Firefox and associated flash library all you need to do is symlink that to the /opt/google/chrome/plugins folder (you may need to create the ./plugins folder).

1) Create the plugins directory:

sudo mkdir /opt/google/chrome/plugins

2) Download the 64 Bit Adobe Flash File. I can give you a direct link to TODAYS available file.

http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10_64bit.html

wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.45.2.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz

3) Extract that tarball into the said directory we just created

sudo tar zxf libflashplayer-10.0.45.2.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz /opt/google/chrome/plugins/

4) Launch chrome with the plugins enabled flag

google-chrome --enable-plugins

5) Enjoy. Validate the plugin is loaded by going to about:plugins in the url bar and hitting enter/return. You should see a section near the top (mine has it as the top section) titled "Shockwave Flash" and containing the following text

File name: libflashplayer.so

Shockwave Flash 10.0 r45

If you have that, you are golden and flash should play fine. Visit youtube or another flash heavy site for a quick validation to verify that it works.

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I Am A: Neutral Good Human Cleric/Sorcerer (2nd/2nd Level)

Ability Scores:
Strength-11
Dexterity-16
Constitution-11
Intelligence-15
Wisdom-14
Charisma-12

Alignment:
Neutral Good A neutral good character does the best that a good person can do. He is devoted to helping others. He works with kings and magistrates but does not feel beholden to them. Neutral good is the best alignment you can be because it means doing what is good without bias for or against order. However, neutral good can be a dangerous alignment when it advances mediocrity by limiting the actions of the truly capable.

Race:
Humans are the most adaptable of the common races. Short generations and a penchant for migration and conquest have made them physically diverse as well. Humans are often unorthodox in their dress, sporting unusual hairstyles, fanciful clothes, tattoos, and the like.

Primary Class:
Clerics act as intermediaries between the earthly and the divine (or infernal) worlds. A good cleric helps those in need, while an evil cleric seeks to spread his patron's vision of evil across the world. All clerics can heal wounds and bring people back from the brink of death, and powerful clerics can even raise the dead. Likewise, all clerics have authority over undead creatures, and they can turn away or even destroy these creatures. Clerics are trained in the use of simple weapons, and can use all forms of armor and shields without penalty, since armor does not interfere with the casting of divine spells. In addition to his normal complement of spells, every cleric chooses to focus on two of his deity's domains. These domains grants the cleric special powers, and give him access to spells that he might otherwise never learn. A cleric's Wisdom score should be high, since this determines the maximum spell level that he can cast.

Secondary Class:
Sorcerers are arcane spellcasters who manipulate magic energy with imagination and talent rather than studious discipline. They have no books, no mentors, no theories just raw power that they direct at will. Sorcerers know fewer spells than wizards do and acquire them more slowly, but they can cast individual spells more often and have no need to prepare their incantations ahead of time. Also unlike wizards, sorcerers cannot specialize in a school of magic. Since sorcerers gain their powers without undergoing the years of rigorous study that wizards go through, they have more time to learn fighting skills and are proficient with simple weapons. Charisma is very important for sorcerers; the higher their value in this ability, the higher the spell level they can cast.

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