camorri Posted July 15, 2010 Report Share Posted July 15, 2010 (edited) I had flash player working on my 64 bit system. I saw the update to 10.1, removed the old security risk version, to find out Adobe is not supplying a working 64 bit version right now. So, I did some searching, and found some posts saying to install the 32 bit version and nspluginwrapper. I have tried without success. There was not much detail, so I guess I'm doing something wrong? Can some one guide me with more specific instructions? Some info. uname -a reports Linux duelie 2.6.31.13-desktop-1mnb #1 SMP Tue Apr 27 20:37:44 EDT 2010 x86_64 AMD Athlonâ„¢ 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+ GNU/Linux I have downloaded this file from Adobe. flash-plugin-10.1.53.64-release.i386.rpm I can install it system wide with urpmi. Here is my confusion, what nspluginwrapper package should I install? Four files show up. What else do I need to do, if anything, to get Flash to work in Firefox 3.6.6 ? Edited July 15, 2010 by camorri Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverSurfer60 Posted July 15, 2010 Report Share Posted July 15, 2010 My answer will not help you get flashplayer running for you. I couldn't get it to work either on an x86 64bit. Finish up I downgraded to the 32bit version of Mandriva. Installed the version from Adobe site and it works without problems. As well as flashplayer not working correctly I had a major problem with a program that I wrote which accesses a Mysql database on a remote server. Short of re-working the application there was no alternative but to downgrade. To be honest I didn't see any improvement by using the 64bit version. So unless anyone comes up with the solution for you you may think about installing the 32 bit version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverSurfer60 Posted July 16, 2010 Report Share Posted July 16, 2010 Guess nobody knows. Anyway now made a dual boot with both versions sharing all but the boot partitions. I can play about as much as I like knowing I have a working system if it all goes *its up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camorri Posted July 16, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 16, 2010 Thank-you for your posts. I thought about going back to a 32 bit system, but this is the only problem I have with the 64 bit system. From what I have read, Adobe is committed to building a 64 bit flash plugin. There is no time line, however... I have a Netbook, with Ubuntu installed. So, I'm not stuck. For the record, I tried gnash, it didn't work with the flash content I tried it on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverSurfer60 Posted July 16, 2010 Report Share Posted July 16, 2010 Of course one could read the errata posting the Spineynorman has kindly put up for us. The answer is there. Thank you Spineynorman. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinynorman Posted July 16, 2010 Report Share Posted July 16, 2010 You're welcome. ;) Errata Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camorri Posted July 17, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2010 The Eratta file for 10.1 is where I started. My first attempt was using the latest 32 bit Flash Player with nspluginwrapper. On my 10.0 64 bit system flash vids do not work. Today I tried the second solution, i585 firefox, plus 32 bit Flash. Unfortunately that does not work either. For the record here are the packages I have tried and now have installed. I removed the 64 bit FF packages I had installed. Shockwave Flash File: libflashplayer.so Version: Shockwave Flash 10.1 r53 Last thoughts, I did see a message that suggested I remove 'orphaned' packaes when I removed the 64 Bit Firefox.. I don't remember the exact text, and have not removed those orphans. Any possibility that is part of this problem? If yes, can someone post the command to remove the orphans? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted July 17, 2010 Report Share Posted July 17, 2010 (edited) su then enter password. urpme --auto-orphans. Read carefully through the list before deleting anything. To remove anything from the list that you think should not be deleted, press the i key ( This allows you to edit the list. i as in insert) then use the arrow keys to move to the line you want excluded from the list and remove the line by means of the back space key. When done, press the Esc key then type :wq then enter. type a lower case y then enter. Cheers. John. Edited July 17, 2010 by AussieJohn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverSurfer60 Posted July 17, 2010 Report Share Posted July 17, 2010 Just to add to what John says, read the list very carefully. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camorri Posted July 18, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 18, 2010 I removed the 'orphans' without any problems, thank-you for the advice. Still, the flash plugin is not working. Not sure what to try next. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted July 24, 2010 Report Share Posted July 24, 2010 The most advanced nspluginwrapper, as well as the best working currently, is the one in Debian Sid. It can be used in other Linuxes as well (factly, this is what I'm using on my 64-bit Archlinux) with some footwork. The wrapper works great, but flashplugin itself is as buggy as ever. OK, the huge security gap went away, but that is that: performance and stability-wise there is absolutely no improvement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camorri Posted July 24, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2010 (edited) The most advanced nspluginwrapper, as well as the best working currently I have never used Debain Sid, can you give me some idea how to get their nswrapperplugin? I'm guessing this can work with Mandriva 64 bit. Edited July 24, 2010 by camorri Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted July 28, 2010 Report Share Posted July 28, 2010 The binary .deb is here: http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/contrib/n/nspluginwrapper/nspluginwrapper_1.3.0-1_amd64.deb This can be unpacked using several tools (e.g. deb2rpm or deb2targz) The binaries are (AFAIK) statically built, so it's not likely to have dependency hell. Now you can simply enter the unpacked directory, and copy as root the included files to the corresponding system directories (should be OK for Mandy). Generally it's not advisable to install binaries like that: it may break your distro's PMS, with unpredictable consequences. But if you keep a track of those non-PMS system changes, you can easily revert them in case something goes wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camorri Posted August 20, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 20, 2010 This is an update. I have finally got libflashplayer working on my 64 bit Mandirva 2010.1 system. Her is what I did. This thread stated when I was running 2010. I ran an update and, and after some problems, have 2010.1 64 bit running. I decided to give the instructions on 2010.1 http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2010.1_Errata another shot. The directory /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins was there before I did anything. I updated the slocate DB, did some searching to see if I had any thing left behind by previous attempts. There was, in my home directory. I deleted what I found. I downloaded from Adobe the latest libflashplayer rpm file and installed it with urpmi. Next I installed nspluginwrapper . I used MCC, install software for that. See the attachment for rpm's installed. I can now view flashplayer conntent on utube, and other sites using firefox. SOLVED. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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