Howto Install 32 bit Firefox with Flash w/sound and Java for AMD64

[D_frag]

Kilz thank you so much for the effort , it's fantastic really . I have used the script and everything is working fine so far except that the sound from mplayer isnt working , though flash's sound is working fine ,any help ?
Thank you in advance


Edit : fixed it .. it was the mplayer itself prefrences .. thank you

[edrappin]

1. Im not sure how to get the kaffine plugin working, but I will look into it. Since there is a package it shouldnt be that hard. But the reason I went with the mplayer plugin is that there was an easy to install 32bit version of mplayer and win32codecs for the proprietary formats that seem to be all over the web. Im not sure the 64bit version of kaffine would be able to play them, or how had it would be to install a 32bit version of it.
2. You should be able to start 64bit Azureus do use downloaded torrent files.


Azureus is just killing me. I have tried everything. I wash my hands of it though as bittornado and ktorrent work just great.

Any help at all on kaffeine would be very much appreciated? Can the mplayer plugin work on kubuntu?

Thanks again.

[Kilz]

Azureus is just killing me. I have tried everything. I wash my hands of it though as bittornado and ktorrent work just great.

Any help at all on kaffeine would be very much appreciated? Can the mplayer plugin work on kubuntu?

Thanks again.

It should, the script also installs mplayer. I run Ubuntu so I cant say from personal experence. I have never had anyone tell me it doesnt.

[factor]

Is there a way to install this in another language? spanish for example? how?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Regards.

[Kilz]

Is there a way to install this in another language? spanish for example? how?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Regards.

From the howto, you may have missed this. I have never done it, but there is a way.

Other Languages.
tkrisz has solved the other languages problem. See his post for further details. (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=1439294&postcount=207)

[kez]

Just wanted to say thanks for such a great how-to and script - just ran the java-mplayer-flash script and now I have Firefox32 and all the media I need - interestingly it didn't install Flash straight off, but that was fixed easily enough by downloading the installer, following the manual part of the How To and making sure I set the right path for the browser when Flash asked me.

Two newbie-ish questions - I did look through the thread but could see no obvious answers - I might well have missed them though -

1) Can I also run 64bit Java on my system (not for Firefox but other apps) as well as having the 32bit Java on there?

2) When it comes to updating the various components - I'm thinking of Firefox, and whenever mplayer/w32codecs gets updated etc, how easy is that to do? Do I need to keep checking back on this thread for updates?

Once again, thanks for the script and the hard work, Kilz, you're a star.

[Kilz]

Just wanted to say thanks for such a great how-to and script - just ran the java-mplayer-flash script and now I have Firefox32 and all the media I need - interestingly it didn't install Flash straight off, but that was fixed easily enough by downloading the installer, following the manual part of the How To and making sure I set the right path for the browser when Flash asked me.

Two newbie-ish questions - I did look through the thread but could see no obvious answers - I might well have missed them though -

1) Can I also run 64bit Java on my system (not for Firefox but other apps) as well as having the 32bit Java on there?

2) When it comes to updating the various components - I'm thinking of Firefox, and whenever mplayer/w32codecs gets updated etc, how easy is that to do? Do I need to keep checking back on this thread for updates?

Once again, thanks for the script and the hard work, Kilz, you're a star.

1. The script installs a 32bit java. Im not sure you can have both. I have never tried it.

2. I usualy have the updated firefox on the howto within a day or so of release. To upgrade you just download the deb file and double click it. Gdebi will start and install it.
I havent seen the mplayer updated yet, but I do keep looking. If I notice a security update I will post a recommendation to upgrade on the main page. Then it would just simply be running the script.

[kez]

Thanks for the answers - the info on updating was exactly what I needed to know. Not sure if I want to be the one to try having both versions of Java though. :)

[fieldstone]

There was one additional step that was necessary for me, and I'm posting it here for anyone else that might be having Flash sound problems like I was. Kilz, I'm sure you remember trying to help walking me through fixing it, without success (thanks for all the help anyway, though!).

After trying all the other fixes, I found that extracting the files from the i386 version of the "alsa-oss" deb file, and copying them to /usr/lib32/, solved my problem. Now I've got perfect sound in 32-bit firefox.

Hope that helps anyone else who's having the same problem I was.

[Kilz]

There was one additional step that was necessary for me, and I'm posting it here for anyone else that might be having Flash sound problems like I was. Kilz, I'm sure you remember trying to help walking me through fixing it, without success (thanks for all the help anyway, though!).

After trying all the other fixes, I found that extracting the files from the i386 version of the "alsa-oss" deb file, and copying them to /usr/lib32/, solved my problem. Now I've got perfect sound in 32-bit firefox.

Hope that helps anyone else who's having the same problem I was.

Thanks for posting it back here. This will help a lot of people. :KS I just packaged the lib's in a ia32 package and added it to the howto and scripts.

[akbrown]

open up a terminal and type in
ls -l ~/.macromedia
then post the results.

Hello Kilz,

Thanks for the installer. I have only recently installed Ubuntu and I have been hoping to get flash working. The installer installed 32 bit Firefox, but I seem to have the same problem as "zjwagner". For me, the installer seemed to work OK, but flash does not work in the 32 bit Firefox, and I don't have a
.macromedia entry in my home directory, as shown here:

ls -l ~/.macromedia
ls: /home/andrew/.macromedia: No such file or directory

I tried both the automatic install and the manual flash install, but with the same result. I also searched the whole file system for ".macromedia", but didn't find anything.

Am I missing something obvious? What else can I check? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Andrew

[akbrown]

Follow up to my previous post:

I just did an install of Real Player 10, and I now notice that I DO have a ".macromedia" entry in my home directory (with a creatiln time of just a few minutes ago), and flash does work in the 32 but firefox. No idea how they may be related.

The issue I now have is that I don't have any sound when I try to use the browser to access streaming radio. I will now do some more reading to see whether I can fix that...

[Kilz]

Follow up to my previous post:

I just did an install of Real Player 10, and I now notice that I DO have a ".macromedia" entry in my home directory (with a creatiln time of just a few minutes ago), and flash does work in the 32 but firefox. No idea how they may be related.

The issue I now have is that I don't have any sound when I try to use the browser to access streaming radio. I will now do some more reading to see whether I can fix that...

Did you install the ia32-alsa-oss file?

[BatteryCell]

Lol wow the new script fixed my icon :-D

And mplayer for everything but wmv :-D

[Kilz]

Lol wow the new script fixed my icon :-D

And mplayer for everything but wmv :-D

Thats cool, Im always working on the script. I have made some big improvements in the last month. You should be able to use the mplayer for wmv :D Its 32bit and uses the w32codecs.

[lenin]

Hey, thanks a lot for this man, really. It's just what I needed to be totaly comfortable with my amd64 system...

Keep going.

[akbrown]

Did you install the ia32-alsa-oss file?

I found the problem. Being a beginner to Ubuntu, I didn't realise that universe and multiverse are not enabled by using the Synaptic settings (and selecting the repositories that mention universe and multiverse). Once I actually enabled them and reinstalled everything the sound started working.

The only strange thing was that the sound in Xine stopped working - possibly by coincidence. Loading the extra codecs got that working again.

Thanks for your help.

[corvy]

Thanks for posting it back here. This will help a lot of people. :KS I just packaged the lib's in a ia32 package and added it to the howto and scripts.

Hello, and thanks for the great script.

I am running 32 bit beta2 now. Works fine. 2 issues, one that flash has no sound, and I also tried the lib32 copy as suggested above. I tried both the 64bit amd package and the 32 bit but none of them worked.

I might not have needed to do this since I ran the script 3 days ago and this was maybe already in the script then?

Also I have a problem when I click a mailto: link on a web page it does not open my e-mail program. Is this a known issue?

Thanks again :)

[Carwood]

Thanks, the autoinstaller works fantastic!!! :-P

[Kilz]

Hello, and thanks for the great script.

I am running 32 bit beta2 now. Works fine. 2 issues, one that flash has no sound, and I also tried the lib32 copy as suggested above. I tried both the 64bit amd package and the 32 bit but none of them worked.

I might not have needed to do this since I ran the script 3 days ago and this was maybe already in the script then?

Also I have a problem when I click a mailto: link on a web page it does not open my e-mail program. Is this a known issue?

Thanks again :)

Did you install the ia32-alsa-oss (http://home.comcast.net/~deletebox/ia32-alsa-oss_1.0.10-1_amd64.deb) file? Does the firefox32 flash have sound or is it just the beta? Yes it is a known issue that it dosent launch email clients, or printers.

[BatteryCell]

Thats cool, Im always working on the script. I have made some big improvements in the last month. You should be able to use the mplayer for wmv :D Its 32bit and uses the w32codecs.

Yea I checked I have w32codecs...I guess its that Im using the kubuntu script maybe...

[saskboy]

I ran the script to install Firefox with flash java and mplayer [thank you by the way], and everything seemed to download and complete without giving me any error messages. I don't know where to go to run the new Firefox 32bit install though. I'm very new to Linux, but can browse to the directory if you tell me where it is, and can probably even make a new shortcut to the file to run the new browser. Can you please help?
Thanks.

[samkon]

Thanks a lot! I can use flash on my browser now... :)

[Kilz]

Yea I checked I have w32codecs...I guess its that Im using the kubuntu script maybe...

Well there is no shortcut to running ut, right click on a wmv file and open with other application, click use a custom command in the application box, then type in mplayer. There are no controlls for 32bit mplayer because its the server version. But the keybord controlls work. The arrow keys and p key are helpful.

[Kilz]

I ran the script to install Firefox with flash java and mplayer [thank you by the way], and everything seemed to download and complete without giving me any error messages. I don't know where to go to run the new Firefox 32bit install though. I'm very new to Linux, but can browse to the directory if you tell me where it is, and can probably even make a new shortcut to the file to run the new browser. Can you please help?
Thanks.

Click Aplication menu > Internet > Firefox32 Web Browser.

[fatsheep]

Ever since the last firefox update flash and java haven't been working. Has anyone else had this problem?

[Kilz]

Ever since the last firefox update flash and java haven't been working. Has anyone else had this problem?

Are you sure you are using 32bit firefox?

[fatsheep]

Are you sure you are using 32bit firefox?

Yes I deleted firefox 64-bit and placed the 32-bit version in its directory.

[Kilz]

Yes I deleted firefox 64-bit and placed the 32-bit version in its directory.

When you do that and an update happens happens it replaces the 32bit with a 64bit version. You will need to copy it into place each time the 64bit version updates if you want the 32bit version installed there.

[fatsheep]

I was afraid of that :( If I don't overwrite the directory of the 64-bit firefox will I still have this problem?

[Kilz]

I was afraid of that :( If I don't overwrite the directory of the 64-bit firefox will I still have this problem?

As long as you leave the 64bit firefox it will start 64bit firefox. Thats because the last Ubuntu Update installed 64bit firefox. If you dont want to overwrite the 64bit firefox, just use the Firefox32 Web Browser launcher in Applications > Internet, or drag the launcher to replace the one that is linked to the 64bit one.
Alternatly, you could lock the version on the 64bit version in Synaptic and Ubuntu will not upgrade it. But this will leave you with the difficulty of how to upgrade the 32bit version you have in its place. My installers and .deb file install to /usr/local/firefox32. As it is now all people have to do to upgrade my installs is download the newest .deb file and double click on it. You will have to still copy the contents of /usr/local/firefox32 to /usr/lib/firefox.

[fatsheep]

As long as you leave the 64bit firefox it will start 64bit firefox. Thats because the last Ubuntu Update installed 64bit firefox. If you dont want to overwrite the 64bit firefox, just use the Firefox32 Web Browser launcher in Applications > Internet, or drag the launcher to replace the one that is linked to the 64bit one.
Alternatly, you could lock the version on the 64bit version in Synaptic and Ubuntu will not upgrade it. But this will leave you with the difficulty of how to upgrade the 32bit version you have in its place. My installers and .deb file install to /usr/local/firefox32. As it is now all people have to do to upgrade my installs is download the newest .deb file and double click on it. You will have to still copy the contents of /usr/local/firefox32 to /usr/lib/firefox.

Ok thanks for the info. I have reinstalled firefox32 and it's working except for one detail - when I click on external links (like those in GAIM conversations and such) they always always go to www.arizona.edu. So I end up having to manually paste the URL into firefox to get it to work... :confused:

[Kilz]

Ok thanks for the info. I have reinstalled firefox32 and it's working except for one detail - when I click on external links (like those in GAIM conversations and such) they always always go to www.arizona.edu. So I end up having to manually paste the URL into firefox to get it to work... :confused:

Thats wierd. I'm not sure why or how its doing that. Did you copy and paste the 32bit firefox into /usr/lib/firefox?

[fatsheep]

No, all I did was add the Firefox32 launcher under Applications>Internet to the panel and use it. I did not change the directory of the installation this time.

[Kilz]

No, all I did was add the Firefox32 launcher under Applications>Internet to the panel and use it. I did not change the directory of the installation this time.

Then the problem is pure 64bit Firefox since the program that opens when you click on links is 64bit firefox. Thinking about it, you could lock the version in Synaptic, that way Ubuntu would never overwrite the 32bit firefox. Then delete the 64bit firefox folder, then put a symlink in. That way when you upgrade firefox32 it will upgrade without having to overwrite and your system will open up url's with the 32bit version.
I just did it myself :D

sudo rm -rfd /usr/lib/firefox
sudo ln -s /usr/local/firefox32 /usr/lib/firefox

[fatsheep]

Hmmm I did both of those commands in the terminal (twice actually) and I'm still paying a bit too many visits to www.arizona.edu :S

[Kilz]

Hmmm I did both of those commands in the terminal (twice actually) and I'm still paying a bit too many visits to www.arizona.edu :S

Thats strange. But I did find that one other step is needed to completly replace 64bit firefox.

sudo rm /usr/bin/firefox
sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/firefox32 /usr/bin/firefox

Im going to add this to the first page.

[RedGhost]

edit: Fixed, next time I will read the thread entirely.

[tyrusx]

Hi. I am a Brazilian Ubuntu Dapper Drake user, using english as default OS language. After installing the firefox32, I runned in a strange problem. My firefox 32 do not put the cedilla in the c character, it put a accute: ććććć.

Running it on the terminal, a discovered the problem:
(firefox-bin:6220): Gtk-WARNING **: Loading IM context type 'cedilla' failed

(firefox-bin:6220): Gtk-WARNING **: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/immodules/im-cedilla.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Firefox32 was suposed to load /usr/lib32/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/immodules/im-cedilla.so:
but I can't find a config file or something to make firefox load this lib.

All the others apps works ok.

Any help, please?

[Kilz]

Hi. I am a Brazilian Ubuntu Dapper Drake user, using english as default OS language. After installing the firefox32, I runned in a strange problem. My firefox 32 do not put the cedilla in the c character, it put a accute: ććććć.

Running it on the terminal, a discovered the problem:
(firefox-bin:6220): Gtk-WARNING **: Loading IM context type 'cedilla' failed

(firefox-bin:6220): Gtk-WARNING **: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/immodules/im-cedilla.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Firefox32 was suposed to load /usr/lib32/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/immodules/im-cedilla.so:
but I can't find a config file or something to make firefox load this lib.

All the others apps works ok.

Any help, please?

Im not sure, and not sure how, but I think it would have to be loaded in the /usr/local/bin/firefox32 loading script.

[fatsheep]

I found out some more info on my problem:

http://justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?t=141984

In "Preferred Applications", the web browser command is set to "firefox32 %u". Apparently %u returns the page with the highest google results for the letter "u". This happens to be www.arizona.edu. What would be the correct command for the web brower?

[Kilz]

I found out some more info on my problem:

http://justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?t=141984

In "Preferred Applications", the web browser command is set to "firefox32 %u". Apparently %u returns the page with the highest google results for the letter "u". This happens to be www.arizona.edu. What would be the correct command for the web brower?

Mine says the same thing but launches the standerd mozilla home page. You can edit it to firefox32 if you want.

[fatsheep]

If I edit the web browser command under System>Preferences>Preferred Applications to "firefox32" then whenever I click on an external link then it will just open an empty tab since no URL is specified.

[fatsheep]

Problem solved. The correct command was "firefox %s":

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+ticket/1884

[Kilz]

Problem solved. The correct command was "firefox %s":

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+ticket/1884

Why on earth did you file a launchpad bug on Firefox32. It isnt an official Ubuntu package. I also dont understand how the command in a launcher on the menu can effect what happens when you click on an external link.

[keheikev]

I have a conundrum my machine is a 32bit amd 2100 athlon and your script doesnt work to install mplayer plugin. I had it working in 1.5 but lost functionality with the 1.507 update.
Is there something I need to do differently? It trys to add a 32 bit plugin but cant stat because the pkg doesnt match the machine type. The plugin for firefox 1.5.0.7 is all I need as I have not been able to get it to work since I upgraded from 1.5.0.3. I installed it thru synaptic mplayer plugin but about:plugins doesnt show any installed plugins.All FF plugins must reside in the "plugins" directory in whereever you have your FF installed. These can either be links or the actual .so and .xpt files, with the following exception:

The Java plugin must be a link to the actual file, the file itself will not work if copied to the plugin directory.

All my FF 1.07 plugins work in FF 1.5 Dcstar
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=135364 This what I think the problem is for me but I cant understand how to fix it One of the replys suggests deleting the plugins folder and then making a link ? to /usr/lib/mozilla
Thanks
Kiheikev

[fatsheep]

Why on earth did you file a launchpad bug on Firefox32. It isnt an official Ubuntu package. I also dont understand how the command in a launcher on the menu can effect what happens when you click on an external link.

It is not the command in the launcher that matters. It's the command in the "Preferred Applications" settings for the web browser. Everytime you click on an external link that command is run.

Also, I think there may be a problem with completely overwriting the default firefox and freezing the package. I have done this and now all gecko applications are failing.

If you use this guide, do not remove the Ubuntu version of Firefox. Doing so will break the following packages: Yelp (help viewer), Epiphany, Gnome-app-install (Add Applications), Liferea, Blam and any application requiring the gecko rendering engine.
- https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FirefoxNewVersion

[MrXerxes]

Thank you so much for your work on this script.

I don't seem to have any sound when viewing flash media in 32bit Firefox though, any idea how I might go about fixing this? Still very new to linux / Ubuntu so please if anyone has an idea feel free to chime in!

[Kilz]

Thank you so much for your work on this script.

I don't seem to have any sound when viewing flash media in 32bit Firefox though, any idea how I might go about fixing this? Still very new to linux / Ubuntu so please if anyone has an idea feel free to chime in!

Have you tried the sound fixes in the Flash section? Secondly have you rebooted since installing it?

[Carwood]

After I updated my firefox32 install with java, flash and m-player, flash stoped working and firefox is not any more in dutch but in englisch. What's wrong?

[GrooveHobbit]

the MPlayer plugin script left several deb packages and some files on my desktop including one that can't be removed. what should be done about them if i want my desktop clean?

[MrXerxes]

the MPlayer plugin script left several deb packages and some files on my desktop including one that can't be removed. what should be done about them if i want my desktop clean?


Open a terminal window, change directory to your desktop, and remove them using the delete command, with sudo of course.

so

sudo <delete command> <filename>

That's how I did it at least.

[MrXerxes]

Have you tried the sound fixes in the Flash section? Secondly have you rebooted since installing it?

Kilz,


It seems that when viewing flash media in FireFox32 I am unable to get audio in other multimedia programs such as xine, mplayer, amarok, etc. Specifically Amarok complains that the Xine engine could not be started.

Conversley,

When using something like Amarok first, and then opening FireFox32 and trying to view flash media I get no sound in FireFox32.

This *only* occurs when viewing flash media in FireFox32 and trying to use other media programs simotaneously. It seems at present I cannot use both at the same time??

Thanks a ton for your help and insight!

[GrooveHobbit]

Open a terminal window, change directory to your desktop, and remove them using the delete command, with sudo of course.

so

sudo <delete command> <filename>

That's how I did it at least.

what would be the proper delete command? (I'm still pretty new to Linux)

[BatteryCell]

Kilz,


It seems that when viewing flash media in FireFox32 I am unable to get audio in other multimedia programs such as xine, mplayer, amarok, etc. Specifically Amarok complains that the Xine engine could not be started.

Conversley,

When using something like Amarok first, and then opening FireFox32 and trying to view flash media I get no sound in FireFox32.

This *only* occurs when viewing flash media in FireFox32 and trying to use other media programs simotaneously. It seems at present I cannot use both at the same time??

Thanks a ton for your help and insight!

Yea I have the same problem

[GrooveHobbit]

what would be the proper delete command? (I'm still pretty new to Linux)
got it.

sudo rm -r Desktop/*

removed all of it

[Kilz]

Yea I have the same problem

Sorry but only one of these applications can have sound at any one time.

[doogleplex]

I chose to run your script (method) for Firefox i386 with java and flash plugins...Everything ended up running fine...

I had to stop the script when I realized that the ./Firefox execution is literally set for the /home/{user}/Desktop/ffinstall folder (for that preprogrammed path), because at first, I had my own extracted location for the ffinstall folder (/home/{user}/downloads/ffinstall). That was no big deal, I realized this during the script execution, when I saw errors for the source at the 'desktop' location. I copied ffinstall to my desktop, and the script then ran and completed.

I now have i386 and amd64 versions of Firefox running side-by-side. I tested flash, and it runs great; and yes, it has audio too! Thank you kindly for this how-to! It may seem like a silly problem not having (64-bit) plugins in Firefox, but it really makes a huge difference being able to use the 32-bit version of Firefox, with working flash and java, when necessary!

Thank you very much for the script(s)!:)

Also, thank you for the additional documentation about how to run 32-bit Firefox only; I am not going to run it only, but it was good information in case someone would want to.

[doogleplex]

Sorry, I forgot to mention that I performed my installations with no other Firefox browers open, and I wanted to point out to other new users like I that you can always (if the browser is running at all) go into the help-about menu in your Firefox, to verify you are actually in the i386 version.

[doogleplex]

Sorry again.
I should also mention, that when you check the version of Firefox using Help-About, that you will only see the version of the first browser opened. In other words, if you open the 64-bit Firefox, then open an instance of the 32-bit one, and then use help-About Firefox menu, you will always see the a64 version listed there, including subsequent openings of either Firefox from that point on. Always the first browser's version. If you have the 32-bit firefox open by itself, it will show you i386.

[fatsheep]

Here is a bash script that will install firefox widgets (makes buttons, radio buttons, drop down menus, check boxes, etc... look a lot nicer) on top of firefox32:

#!/bin/bash
wget http://users.tkk.fi/~otsaloma/art/fi...widgets.tar.gz
tar -xvzf firefox-form-widgets.tar.gz
sudo cp /usr/local/firefox32/res/forms.css /usr/local/firefox32/res/forms.css.bak
cat firefox-form-widgets/res/forms-extra.css | sudo tee --append /usr/local/firefox32/res/forms.css > /dev/null
sudo cp -r firefox-form-widgets/res/form-widgets /usr/local/firefox32/res
rm -rf firefox-form-widgets


This is just a modified script for firefox32 from this post:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=1552206&postcount=4. Thanks to that guide buttons in firefox are no longer such an eyesore.

Also, here is a script to install realplayer10 and install its firefox plugin to firefox32.

#!/bin/bash
sudo apt-get install libstdc++5
wget -c http://www.debian-multimedia.org/pool/main/r/realpl ay/realplayer_10.0.7-0.0_i386.deb
sudo dpkg --force-architecture -i realplayer_10.0.7-0.0_i386.deb
sudo mv /opt/realplayer/mozilla/nphelix.so /usr/local/firefox32/plugins/nphelix.so
sudo mv /opt/realplayer/mozilla/nphelix.xpt /usr/local/firefox32/plugins/nephelix.xpt


I used the info on this wiki page to create it: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RealplayerInstallationMethods. The only problem is that I can't get firefox to actually use Real Player instead of mplayer, maybe you would know how to do this?

Feel free to use any of these scripts in your own if you like them.

[Kilz]

Here is a bash script that will install firefox widgets (makes buttons, radio buttons, drop down menus, check boxes, etc... look a lot nicer) on top of firefox32:



This is just a modified script for firefox32 from this post:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=1552206&postcount=4. Thanks to that guide buttons in firefox are no longer such an eyesore.

Also, here is a script to install realplayer10 and install its firefox plugin to firefox32.



I used the info on this wiki page to create it: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RealplayerInstallationMethods. The only problem is that I can't get firefox to actually use Real Player instead of mplayer, maybe you would know how to do this?

Feel free to use any of these scripts in your own if you like them.

Thanks for the scripts. Ill have to try the widgets. Im not exactly sure how it will change the look. At one time I had real player plugin as a option. But the plugin was flaky and stoped working on one of the recient versions of firefox. Im not sure if I will add it to the auto install scripts, but I might make it avilable.
As to how to make the mplayer plugin stop handeling real. 2 of the mplayer plugins in the /usr/local/firefox32/plugins folder end in rm. Removing them and restarting firefox should do it. But id back them up in case you dont like how the realplayer plugin works. Some sites it just doesnt.

[fatsheep]

Alright tell me what you think of the widgets. :)

[leona]

Great how to btw, followed the manual install to the letter (the auto script didn't work, never mind), but I got a problem with Java and chat apps, I can't use chat apps, as soon as they load it crashes taking firefox with it, was a fix for this ever found?

[Kilz]

Great how to btw, followed the manual install to the letter (the auto script didn't work, never mind), but I got a problem with Java and chat apps, I can't use chat apps, as soon as they load it crashes taking firefox with it, was a fix for this ever found?

what site are you trying to connect to ?

[leona]

pick any chat room you like it will fial, I'm wondering if a few steps have been missed, like setting the 'alternatives' and setting the 'javahome' envrioment, as I found on this post. (http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=3368). I've not tried doing any of this yet, when I get back home to my system I'll see what happens, but I think a few addtions to your how-to could be required to get Java Fully operational.

[dimis]

I am visiting again this wonderful thread.
This time I want to report some problems I have with my 32bit firefox (version 1.5.04). Please ignore the first lines regarding libpangohack.so, as the problem is not only there.
Here we are:
$ firefox32 &
[1] 5756
user@host:~$ ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib32/libpangohack.so.0' from LD_P RELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib32/libpangohack.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be pr eloaded: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib32/libpangohack.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be pr eloaded: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib32/libpangohack.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be pr eloaded: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib32/libpangohack.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be pr eloaded: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib32/libpangohack.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be pr eloaded: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib32/libpangohack.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be pr eloaded: ignored.

(firefox-bin:5767): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Error loading XPM image loader: Unable to load image-loading module: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-xp m.so: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-xpm.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

(firefox-bin:5767): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_drawable_get_size: assertion `GDK_IS_DR AWABLE (drawable)' failed

(firefox-bin:5767): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Error loading XPM image loader: Unable to load image-loading module: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-xp m.so: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-xpm.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

(firefox-bin:5767): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_draw_drawable: assertion `src != NULL' failed

(firefox-bin:5767): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Error loading XPM image loader: Unable to load image-loading module: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-xp m.so: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-xpm.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

(firefox-bin:5767): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_drawable_get_size: assertion `GDK_IS_DR AWABLE (drawable)' failed

(firefox-bin:5767): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Error loading XPM image loader: Unable to load image-loading module: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-xp m.so: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-xpm.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

(firefox-bin:5767): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_draw_drawable: assertion `src != NULL' failed

(firefox-bin:5767): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Error loading XPM image loader: Unable to load image-loading module: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-xp m.so: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-xpm.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

(firefox-bin:5767): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_drawable_get_size: assertion `GDK_IS_DR AWABLE (drawable)' failed

(firefox-bin:5767): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Error loading XPM image loader: Unable to load image-loading module: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-xp m.so: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-xpm.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

(firefox-bin:5767): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_draw_drawable: assertion `src != NULL' failed

(firefox-bin:5767): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Error loading XPM image loader: Unable to load image-loading module: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-xp m.so: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-xpm.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

(firefox-bin:5767): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_drawable_get_size: assertion `GDK_IS_DR AWABLE (drawable)' failed

(firefox-bin:5767): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Error loading XPM image loader: Unable to load image-loading module: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-xp m.so: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-xpm.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

(firefox-bin:5767): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_draw_drawable: assertion `src != NULL' failed
Firefox has not crashed yet, but Gdk errors turn out to make it crash in the end (e.g. every time I click on the Download button at my gmail account). On the other hand Firefox64 NEVER crashes. I also followed this (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=103930) Problem-solving technique, but again no solution. I am wondering if there is a conflict with XGL/compiz that I run on this machine as the output indicates that there are drawing problems. On the other hand, it says that files are missing. Any clue which package(s) should I install?

By the way, has there been any change in libpangohack.so? I am asking this because:
user@host:/usr/lib32$ ls -l libpangohack*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2006-07-17 11:41 libpangohack.so.0 -> libpangohack.so.0.0
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 2994 2006-07-17 11:41 libpangohack.so.0.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2994 2006-07-19 18:46 libpangohack.so.0.0.bak
user@host:/usr/lib32$
Weird, isn't it?


Any idea for solution is welcome,
- dimis -

P.S.: My specs: Linux host 2.6.15-26-amd64-generic #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Sep 8 19:55:50 UTC 2006 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[Kilz]

pick any chat room you like it will fial, I'm wondering if a few steps have been missed, like setting the 'alternatives' and setting the 'javahome' envrioment, as I found on this post. (http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=3368). I've not tried doing any of this yet, when I get back home to my system I'll see what happens, but I think a few addtions to your how-to could be required to get Java Fully operational.

I use my own setting. I am able to go into the wikipedia chat with a java applet. But are you installing by howto or install script?

[Kilz]

I am visiting again this wonderful thread.
This time I want to report some problems I have with my 32bit firefox (version 1.5.04). Please ignore the first lines regarding libpangohack.so, as the problem is not only there.
Here we are:


You are running firefox32 1.5.0.4. The current version is 1.5.0.7 I recommend upgrading as a lot of work has been done since that was the version. Im not sure that there was even a deb file back then. But I would recommend removing the libprangohack files. Something just doesnt seem right with them before upgrading. You can get the 1.5.0.7 deb file from the main page of the howto. just double click on it to install it with gdebi.

[fatsheep]

I'm having some trouble installing IceWeasel:


Selecting previously deselected package iceweasel32.
(Reading database ... 160115 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking iceweasel32 (from .../iceweasel-1.5.0.4-g1-amd64.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /home/fatsheep/Desktop/Downloads/iceweasel-1.5.0.4-g1-amd64.deb (--install):
trying to overwrite `/etc/pango32/pangorc', which is also in package firefox32
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)

[leona]

I use my own setting. I am able to go into the wikipedia chat with a java applet. But are you installing by howto or install script?

I Kilz, I installed via the manual method of your how to.

[dimis]

You are running firefox32 1.5.0.4. The current version is 1.5.0.7 I recommend upgrading as a lot of work has been done since that was the version. Im not sure that there was even a deb file back then. But I would recommend removing the libprangohack files. Something just doesnt seem right with them before upgrading. You can get the 1.5.0.7 deb file from the main page of the howto. just double click on it to install it with gdebi.Thank you Kilz (once more)! You are correct, there was no .deb file back then.

Regards,
- dimis -

[fatsheep]

I Kilz, I installed via the manual method of your how to.

Try using the .deb file.

[Kilz]

I Kilz, I installed via the manual method of your how to.

I honstly dont recommend doing that. Its left up for those that may have installed it long ago to troubleshoot when upgrades happen. Also the auto install uses Ubuntu packages, the manual howto doesnt. Most people will get better results using the auto setup scripts.

[fatsheep]

Any ideas on how to fix the conflict between IceWeasel32 and firefox32? Trying to install firefox32 while Iceweasel32 is installed doesn't work either:

(Reading database ... 80636 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking firefox32 (from .../firefox32-1.5.0.7_amd64.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /home/ubuntu/Desktop/ffinstall/firefox32-1.5.0.7_amd64.de b (--install):
trying to overwrite `/etc/pango32/pangorc', which is also in package iceweasel3 2
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/home/ubuntu/Desktop/ffinstall/firefox32-1.5.0.7_amd64.deb
chmod: cannot access `/usr/local/bin/firefox32': No such file or directory

[susancragin]

The script didn't work with my machine. It seems to install perfectly then the Macromedia flash doesn't work. I have tried running from the command line to make sure I have the right Firefox....
Any suggestions?

[fatsheep]

Post the output of the terminal when the script is installing.

[fatsheep]

Attached is an install script for Iceweasel, widgets, and plugins based off your firefox32 w/ mplayer, java, and flash script. Just double click on the file and run it in the terminal to install. Again, feel free to use it if you like it.

[hoodwink]

Attached is an install script for Iceweasel, widgets, and plugins based off your firefox32 w/ mplayer, java, and flash script. Just double click on the file and run it in the terminal to install. Again, feel free to use it if you like it.
I did try this, and it seems to work - I get Iceweasel with the expected plugins - but the mplayer plugin doesn't seem to work. If I select a movie trailer, mplayer buffers to 99% and then hangs.

Any suggestions?

This is on a brand new kubuntu AMD64 beta with all current updates.

[leona]

I honstly dont recommend doing that. Its left up for those that may have installed it long ago to troubleshoot when upgrades happen. Also the auto install uses Ubuntu packages, the manual howto doesnt. Most people will get better results using the auto setup scripts.

oh ok, but only used the manual method cos the auto script throw up loads of errors and just gave up, I guess, is it a case of revserving the manual method to remove and start again? I did install using the .deb file as per this.

Download the Firefox32 .deb file. and save it to your desktiop.
Doubble click on it and let Gedebi install it or open a terminal

[Kilz]

oh ok, but only used the manual method cos the auto script throw up loads of errors and just gave up, I guess, is it a case of revserving the manual method to remove and start again? I did install using the .deb file as per this.


If the scripts gave errors its best to paste the outbut here so we can see whats going on.

[fatsheep]

I did try this, and it seems to work - I get Iceweasel with the expected plugins - but the mplayer plugin doesn't seem to work. If I select a movie trailer, mplayer buffers to 99% and then hangs.

Any suggestions?

This is on a brand new kubuntu AMD64 beta with all current updates.

Unfortunately I don't have a good way to test the script on Kubuntu right now so I just took Kilz's Firefox32 script for Kubuntu and modified it. Apparently there are some different packages that need to be installed and from different sources. Let me know if this works for you and if not please post the terminal output:

[leona]

If the scripts gave errors its best to paste the outbut here so we can see whats going on.
Surely I'll need to removed what I've already installed or will it install over the top, don't want to make more of a mess of my system.

My theory is though that the Java environment isn't being setup, I've install Ubuntu now on 3 machines, 1 x 64bit 2x 32 bit and Java doesn't work on any of them, the 2 32 bit ones where installed completely from Synaptic, but it doesn't set up any Java environments not even 'Alternatives" which is why I believe its crashing. I know I don't have enough background knowledge to bug trace this to find out what is going wrong, but find it hard to believe I'm the only one who can't get Java fully working.

[fatsheep]

Surely I'll need to removed what I've already installed or will it install over the top, don't want to make more of a mess of my system.


Don't worry about it, if you run the script again it will just overwrite the old files.

[fatsheep]

I like how you've handled the Firefox32 - Iceweasel32 conflict. However, now that Iceweasel has no plugins folder, just a link to /usr/local/firefox32/plugins, you have to have firefox32 w/ plugins installed in order to use plugins in Iceweasel. This seems a bit silly since Iceweasel32 and Firefox32 are basically the same thing. :-k

[Pinoy915]

I can't get the plugins to work with Iceweasel. My firefox32 and plugins are working fine but when I do the command for Iceweasel, I get this:
sudo cp -r -p /usr/local/firefox32/plugins/* /usr/lib32/firefox32/plugins/
cp: target `/usr/lib32/firefox32/plugins/' is not a directory: No such file or directory. I've installed the other file fine.

[leona]

Well fatsheep and Kilz, (looking very red faced and sheepish) guess this goes to show I should have read the instructions more closely, the script did install ok this time, and after reading a few posts back I think I now see why, like someone else, I don't put everything on my desktop, like to keep it tidy, so that's why it failed.

Anyway its inatlled ok, but, the chat room still doesn't work, although a demonstration one does, so going to have to try to work out what is wrong there.

Thanks for being so paticent with me.

I noticed though there is a difference between your auto and manual installs the auto installs java 1.4.2 where as the manual install installs java 1.5 why is that? Does the Sun Java 1.5 not work?

[fatsheep]

I can't get the plugins to work with Iceweasel. My firefox32 and plugins are working fine but when I do the command for Iceweasel, I get this:
sudo cp -r -p /usr/local/firefox32/plugins/* /usr/lib32/firefox32/plugins/
cp: target `/usr/lib32/firefox32/plugins/' is not a directory: No such file or directory. I've installed the other file fine.

I believe it should be /usr/local/firefox32/plugins not /usr/lib32/firefox32/plugins...

[Kilz]

I believe it should be /usr/local/firefox32/plugins not /usr/lib32/firefox32/plugins...

No, I have changed things a little to solve a problem. I think its a good idea to have a central place for the plugins, just like the 64bit firefox has. In case someone has more than one firefox fork installed. There are also a number of files that need to be installed that give errors because they are in mutiple packages so stop other browsers from being installed. So I created a ia32-lib-firefox package. It creates the central plugins folder and installs those problem files.
The next step will be to have a plugin install script and let people chose what browsers they want to install. Because they will all use the same plugins.
The question is , did you install the ia32-lib-firefox package first? Im not sure if this is a requirement, but if it isnt I will be adding it.

[fatsheep]

No, I have changed things a little to solve a problem. I think its a good idea to have a central place for the plugins, just like the 64bit firefox has. In case someone has more than one firefox fork installed. There are also a number of files that need to be installed that give errors because they are in mutiple packages so stop other browsers from being installed. So I created a ia32-lib-firefox package. It creates the central plugins folder and installs those problem files.
The next step will be to have a plugin install script and let people chose what browsers they want to install. Because they will all use the same plugins.
The question is , did you install the ia32-lib-firefox package first? Im not sure if this is a requirement, but if it isnt I will be adding it.

I installed the ia32-lib-firefox package after installing Iceweasel. Still works fine besides the plugins issue I told you about.

[Kilz]

I installed the ia32-lib-firefox package after installing Iceweasel. Still works fine besides the plugins issue I told you about.

Im going to be making all plugins for all browser debs im making point to /usr/lib32/firefox32/plugins. The ia32-lib-firefox package creates the folder along with adding files. The new plugin script Im making will install ia32-lib-firefox to.
Then all forefox based browsers(firefox, flock, iceweasel), and maybe opera will be avilable as debs. That way users will only have to install one set of plugins. Also the scripts will not need to be rewritten each time a browser upgrades.

[fatsheep]

Im going to be making all plugins for all browser debs im making point to /usr/lib32/firefox32/plugins. The ia32-lib-firefox package creates the folder along with adding files. The new plugin script Im making will install ia32-lib-firefox to.
Then all forefox based browsers(firefox, flock, iceweasel), and maybe opera will be avilable as debs. That way users will only have to install one set of plugins. Also the scripts will not need to be rewritten each time a browser upgrades.

Sounds good. As long as the browsers are not dependant on each other. :)

[Kilz]

Sounds good. As long as the browsers are not dependant on each other. :)

Its done. :D I finished redoing the howto today and making all the deb files and scripts.
The browsers are not dependant on each other. But 64bit users can now have any of the browsers on the front page installed with a few clicks. The plugin script installs the plugins and libraries. It only needs to be installed once. Then all the browsers can use them.
I am having problems with Opera, but its not a biggie if that falls through. I might also have to make a kubuntu deb for firefox32.
This will save a lot of work, as now its just packageing the deb file when a new version is released.
If this works out Im going to do the same thing with extensions and search engins for the search box.

[finite9]

Thanks for the script, this is really what I needed :) I only got one problem: I already had Blackdown Java installed, and the script installed its own over the top of mine, then apt-get complained that the index database was broken and that I needed to do apt-get install -f to fix it. It then proceeded to re-install java.

I suppose that if I hadn't installed Java first for amd64 then I wouldn't have this problem? All seems to work now though.

[Kilz]

Thanks for the script, this is really what I needed :) I only got one problem: I already had Blackdown Java installed, and the script installed its own over the top of mine, then apt-get complained that the index database was broken and that I needed to do apt-get install -f to fix it. It then proceeded to re-install java.

I suppose that if I hadn't installed Java first for amd64 then I wouldn't have this problem? All seems to work now though.

Ill take a look at it.

[fatsheep]

Good work, this is coming along nicely. :) However, I have a few suggestions concerning the scripts:

#1: In the readme it says to use the command line to run the script as root. While this does work, it's not necessary. All commands that are prefixed with "sudo". All the commands in the script that need to be run as root are prefixed with sudo so really you can just double click on the script, and hit run in terminal. Or if you like using the terminal:

cd ~/Desktop/base-plugins
./base-plugins

OR


~/Desktop/base-plugins/base-plugins



#2: If it were me, I'd put in some line breaks and comments to make the script easier to read and edit but that's up to you.

#3: Relative paths would save you the trouble of typing out the full path names and allow users to successfully run the script in any directory they choose, not just the Desktop. For example, take these two lines:


sudo cp -r -p ~/Desktop/base-plugins/install_flash_player_7_linux/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib32/firefox32/plugins/
sudo cp -r -p ~/Desktop/base-plugins/install_flash_player_7_linux/flashplayer.xpt /usr/lib32/firefox32/plugins/


They work but why type out the full path? We are already in the ~/Desktop/base-plugins directory so all we need is:


sudo cp -r -p ./install_flash_player_7_linux/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib32/firefox32/plugins/
sudo cp -r -p ./install_flash_player_7_linux/flashplayer.xpt /usr/lib32/firefox32/plugins/


Basically the "." just means that we are dealing with a file (or folder in this case) inside the current working directory (which is ~/Desktop/base-plugins). Or it could be ~/Desktop/Documents/Files/base-plugins... It really doesn't matter since the path is relative, not absolute...

#4: Variables make your scripts easier to maintain and save you typing. For example, since we end up referring to the /usr/lib32/firefox32/plugins directory a lot in the script we could just declare a variable at the beginning:


plugins="/usr/lib32/firefox32/plugins"


Now instead of typing "/usr/lib32/firefox32/plugins", we can just type $plugins. Using this variable the previous example could just be:


sudo cp -r -p ~./install_flash_player_7_linux/libflashplayer.so $plugins
sudo cp -r -p ~./install_flash_player_7_linux/flashplayer.xpt $plugins


#5: This isn't really that important but if you want to get rid of the ~"Can't get working directory" error at the end of the script then you can.

This error happens when this command is executed:


sudo rm -fdr ~/Desktop/base-plugins


The reason is because we are deleting the current working directory. To avoid the error, we just navigate to the parent directory of base-plugins (~/Desktop):


cd ..

(".." = parent directory)

and then delete base-plugins folder:


sudo rm -fdr base-plugins


Since the current working directory is outside of the base-plugins directory, there is no error.

#6: When you double click on the script and select "Run in Terminal" , it works fine but the terminal always closes RIGHT after the script finishes. To keep the terminal open after the script finishes just include this command at the very end of the file on its own line:

read


Hope you find (some of ;) ) this info useful,

-sheep

[Kilz]

Good work, this is coming along nicely. :) However, I have a few suggestions concerning the scripts:

#1: In the readme it says to use the command line to run the script as root. While this does work, it's not necessary. All commands that are prefixed with "sudo". All the commands in the script that need to be run as root are prefixed with sudo so really you can just double click on the script, and hit run in terminal. Or if you like using the terminal:



OR




#2: If it were me, I'd put in some line breaks and comments to make the script easier to read and edit but that's up to you.

#3: Relative paths would save you the trouble of typing out the full path names and allow users to successfully run the script in any directory they choose, not just the Desktop. For example, take these two lines:



They work but why type out the full path? We are already in the ~/Desktop/base-plugins directory so all we need is:



Basically the "." just means that we are dealing with a file (or folder in this case) inside the current working directory (which is ~/Desktop/base-plugins). Or it could be ~/Desktop/Documents/Files/base-plugins... It really doesn't matter since the path is relative, not absolute...

#4: Variables make your scripts easier to maintain and save you typing. For example, since we end up referring to the /usr/lib32/firefox32/plugins directory a lot in the script we could just declare a variable at the beginning:



Now instead of typing "/usr/lib32/firefox32/plugins", we can just type $plugins. Using this variable the previous example could just be:



#5: This isn't really that important but if you want to get rid of the ~"Can't get working directory" error at the end of the script then you can.

This error happens when this command is executed:



The reason is because we are deleting the current working directory. To avoid the error, we just navigate to the parent directory of base-plugins (~/Desktop):


(".." = parent directory)

and then delete base-plugins folder:



Since the current working directory is outside of the base-plugins directory, there is no error.

#6: When you double click on the script and select "Run in Terminal" , it works fine but the terminal always closes RIGHT after the script finishes. To keep the terminal open after the script finishes just include this command at the very end of the file on its own line:




Hope you find (some of ;) ) this info useful,

-sheep

Thanks fatsheep, the script I use is basicly the one I started with long ago. I have learned a lot since then. There have been things added and removed, but I have never rewriten it. I was planing on doing that in the near future (a week or 2). I think some of the improvements you have sugested will be done then.

[cfishburn]

I have a newbee problem. I clicked on your link to base-plugins and then I am
asked if I want archive to open it or send it to disk. What do I do?
thanks in advance, because I may need more help

[Kilz]

I have a newbee problem. I clicked on your link to base-plugins and then I am
asked if I want archive to open it or send it to disk. What do I do?
thanks in advance, because I may need more help

Its best if you save it to disk and then right click on it and choose extract here. It will make a folder with the script and a redme file with instructions.

[finite9]

stupid question: Can I use this script on a 32-bit system as well? It would make installing all plugins etc a breeze even on a 32-bit system.

[bdb]

This looks to be a life saver. When I get home I will try this out. My Wife can't move off windows because of her obsession with youTube (I will admit... I'm having withdrawal symptoms:-| )

[Kilz]

stupid question: Can I use this script on a 32-bit system as well? It would make installing all plugins etc a breeze even on a 32-bit system.

Unfortunatly no. Because the plugins are placed in /usr/lib32/firefox32/plugins This location is unknown in the 32bit version. But I will concider this as a request to create one. It shouldnt be to hard.

[fatsheep]

Is anyone else having problems opening html documents with Iceweasel? It opens like 5 tabs every time I try to open a document. The first one is an error, and the rest are just random websites. :confused: Default firefox, on the other hand, works fine.

EDIT:

Ok two other minor problems with Iceweasel...

#1: In the download manager, the "open" button (for files) and the "Open Containing folder" button (right click on a file) don't work. "Remove" and "Properties" on the other hand do work.
#2: Occassionally I will get a file that automatically opens instead of saving for no reason, here's an example:

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-1.39.tar.gz?download

[fatsheep]

Someone on the bug list just told me how to get the icon on the Iceweasel window so I thought I'd pass it a long... All you have to do is copy an image to /usr/local/Iceweasel32/chrome/icons/default/default.xpm. First off, create a directory named "icons" under the chrome folder. Then create a folder named "default" under icons. Now run this command:

sudo cp /usr/share/pixmaps/iceweasel32.png /usr/local/Iceweasel32/chrome/icons/default/default.xpm

Or just put any icon you like in there named as "default.xpm".

http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/1302/iceweaseloj8.png

[Kilz]

Someone on the bug list just told me how to get the icon on the Iceweasel window so I thought I'd pass it a long... All you have to do is copy an image to /usr/local/Iceweasel32/chrome/icons/default/default.xpm. First off, create a directory named "icons" under the chrome folder. Then create a folder named "default" under icons. Now run this command:

sudo cp /usr/share/pixmaps/iceweasel32.png /usr/local/Iceweasel32/chrome/icons/default/default.xpm

Or just put any icon you like in there named as "default.xpm".

http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/1302/iceweaseloj8.png

Thanks fatsheep, I have fixed this in the amd64 version. I added a symbolic link though. So whatever the iceweasel32.png is changed to the little icon is changed to.

sudo ln -s /usr/share/pixmaps/iceweasel32.png /usr/local/Iceweasel32/chrome/icons/default/default.xpm

[bjornb]

Dear Kilz!

Thanks a lot for your great HowTo and your automated script works wonders to a non-programming user!!

I've a question though... I'm running Ubuntu on my desktop at University where we are connected to the internet via a network... now when I run your script I get the following message when it starts installing the .deb files:

Error parsing proxy URL http://:8080/: Invalid host name.
dpkg: status database area is locked by another process

I realise this has something to do with the Network Proxy, which on my Desktop computer at the office is set to "Automatic proxy configuration".

I had a similar problem when I was trying to use this script on my Laptop, but was able to get around it by just doing it at home and changing the Network Proxy to "Direct Internet Connection"...

Is there any way to get around this without changing the Network Proxy?

Thanks a lot for you input.

Cheers
Bjorn

[weird_c00kie]

kilz, you are a god. thank you for the flash installation how-to :D

[Kilz]

Dear Kilz!

Thanks a lot for your great HowTo and your automated script works wonders to a non-programming user!!

I've a question though... I'm running Ubuntu on my desktop at University where we are connected to the internet via a network... now when I run your script I get the following message when it starts installing the .deb files:

Error parsing proxy URL http://:8080/: Invalid host name.
dpkg: status database area is locked by another process

I realise this has something to do with the Network Proxy, which on my Desktop computer at the office is set to "Automatic proxy configuration".

I had a similar problem when I was trying to use this script on my Laptop, but was able to get around it by just doing it at home and changing the Network Proxy to "Direct Internet Connection"...

Is there any way to get around this without changing the Network Proxy?

Thanks a lot for you input.

Cheers
Bjorn
Im not sure if there is.

[onon_onon]

Kilz, I must post this just to thank you for this How-to. One of the best I saw.

[Kilz]

Kilz, I must post this just to thank you for this How-to. One of the best I saw.

Your welcome. This howto and my Wine howto are the main ways I give back to the community. I am always looking to make it better. I just got done improving the install script :D . I hope it makes installing easier for everyone.

[incubus]

Kilz,

Great HowTo and wonderful work you're doing for all of us, 64bit users. Your debs have been saving me a lot of time and work.

I tested Iceweasel and had no issue so far. The only suggestion I would give is to use lowercase "iceweasel" for the directory and command, just to follow the tradition. I don't know how the original file comes.

Today I tested the new flash plugin (9beta) and although it works, it seems quite unstable. It randomly crashes with segmentation fault. I'm not surprised. But it was good to be able to watch a video and listen to music at the same time.

best,
incubus

[Kilz]

Kilz,

Great HowTo and wonderful work you're doing for all of us, 64bit users. Your debs have been saving me a lot of time and work.

I tested Iceweasel and had no issue so far. The only suggestion I would give is to use lowercase "iceweasel" for the directory and command, just to follow the tradition. I don't know how the original file comes.

Today I tested the new flash plugin (9beta) and although it works, it seems quite unstable. It randomly crashes with segmentation fault. I'm not surprised. But it was good to be able to watch a video and listen to music at the same time.

best,
incubus


Yes it isnt perfect yet. I think one of the things every one who tests beta software needs to do is report problems. Im sure if we all give adobe feedback it will help it get better faster.

[finite9]

I really like this script but I have a few concerns:

When it comes time to dist-upgrade, or even normal upgrades on my system, isn't it quite likely that all this stuff will break or at least cause dependency problems?

In my current situation, I can live with 32-bit mplayer java etc as I dont use them for anything else, but for those people that want 64-bit mplayer java it must be a tough decision to use your scripts as they will have to downgrade to 32-bit and it has a casacde effect on the whole system (dependency wise).

The last thing im concerned about is the lack of a trusted source for these debs...it seems like they get downloaded from all over the place without a single signature. Makes me a bit worried about malicious code in these custom debs. Is it not possible to download these debs from the official archive or have they been hacked to be able to work in your solution?

[Kilz]

I really like this script but I have a few concerns:

When it comes time to dist-upgrade, or even normal upgrades on my system, isn't it quite likely that all this stuff will break or at least cause dependency problems?
No, the packages will either be upgraded or will not exist in the repositories. As far as we are learning Everything works on Edgy. If something changes. I will fix it. As far as upgrades to the browser. I usualy have the .deb file within a day of release. downloading and double click on the file to update.

In my current situation, I can live with 32-bit mplayer java etc as I dont use them for anything else, but for those people that want 64-bit mplayer java it must be a tough decision to use your scripts as they will have to downgrade to 32-bit and it has a casacde effect on the whole system (dependency wise).
Nope, 32bit mplayer is named different that the 64bit one. You can have both. There is one time that it changes the name of a mplayer binary. But Ubuntu uses the gmplayer and Kubuntu uses the kmplayer binary. To adapt the application to the system. So the mplayer binary is not used most of the time.

The last thing im concerned about is the lack of a trusted source for these debs...it seems like they get downloaded from all over the place without a single signature. Makes me a bit worried about malicious code in these custom debs. Is it not possible to download these debs from the official archive or have they been hacked to be able to work in your solution?

I have made all the .debs other than the mplayer ones that are not in the repositories. Yes I do use some from the repositories. All the browser .deb's are mine. A few of the ia32 are to. If it has comcast in the url, its mine.
They are not hacked, but do contain files I have created. With 35k hits on this topic, if there was a problem, you would be able to read it. Im not a mod, I cant remove posts. I also have 2k posts on the Ubuntu forums helping people. If you dont trust me. Follow the manual howto. This page was put up to help people, thats what I do.

[finite9]

Thanks for clearing up my first two concerns--good to know that nothing will break from official repositories when upgrading :)

As for the third concern: I apologise if i've offended you--it wasn't my intention to imply that you are spreading malicious code, but it *is* a security risk to download custom debs from 3 separate sites with no sigs where the sites are owned by private persons and not organisations: This doesn't mean I don't really appreciate the work you have done! I'm just saying it is a risk.

Can you clear up one thing:

are the following official mirrors?:
http://ubuntu.secs.oakland.edu
http://ubuntu.mirrors.tds.net

Can I swap these out for local mirrors?

[Kilz]

Thanks for clearing up my first two concerns--good to know that nothing will break from official repositories when upgrading :)

As for the third concern: I apologise if i've offended you--it wasn't my intention to imply that you are spreading malicious code, but it *is* a security risk to download custom debs from 3 separate sites with no sigs where the sites are owned by private persons and not organisations: This doesn't mean I don't really appreciate the work you have done! I'm just saying it is a risk.

Can you clear up one thing:

are the following official mirrors?:
http://ubuntu.secs.oakland.edu
http://ubuntu.mirrors.tds.net

Can I swap these out for local mirrors?

No offence taken, I understand. The reason you see 3 different comcast sites is that comcast gives me 25meg of web space per email address I create. I can create up to 6 emails. The browsers are 8.5-9 meg per file. So I can at best put 2 per account.
Yes they appear to be Ubuntu mirrors. If there is a nearer one by all means use it. Are you having trouble connecting to them?

[Angafirith]

I used the manual installation instructions to install iceweasel and java, but I'm having some trouble. When I go to a page that has a Java applet on it the loading animation starts to play, but the progress bar does not move. When I try to close the browser, I have to force it to quit. Afterwards, I notice that my system is acting unusually: one time my panels did not work properly.

I tried using the chown command mentioned in the first post, but I had no success.

Should I just wait and hope for a x86_64 java plugin? Or should I look for an older java plugin built for ns4 (for nspluginwrapper)? Or are there any ideas as to what might be wrong on my system?

If it helps at all, I'm running Edgy Eft with a custom 2.6.18 kernel on a Compaq Presario v5210us. It's a Turion 64 system.

[Kilz]

I used the manual installation instructions to install iceweasel and java, but I'm having some trouble. When I go to a page that has a Java applet on it the loading animation starts to play, but the progress bar does not move. When I try to close the browser, I have to force it to quit. Afterwards, I notice that my system is acting unusually: one time my panels did not work properly.

I tried using the chown command mentioned in the first post, but I had no success.

Should I just wait and hope for a x86_64 java plugin? Or should I look for an older java plugin built for ns4 (for nspluginwrapper)? Or are there any ideas as to what might be wrong on my system?

If it helps at all, I'm running Edgy Eft with a custom 2.6.18 kernel on a Compaq Presario v5210us. It's a Turion 64 system.


First off lets see if the plugin is installed or not. open a terminal and copy/paste this command in.
ls -l /usr/lib32/firefox32/plugins/
Then copy/paste the results into a post here.

[finite9]

i have same issue with new beta script...iceweasel and java do not play nicely together. Java apps sometimes hang browser, other times browser quits. I do get a dialogue to accept certificates though! something broken?

running dapper 6.06 amd64 with 2.6.15-27-amd64-k8 kernel.

[Angafirith]

The results of ls -al:

total 6724
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6753912 2006-10-20 01:30 libflashplayer.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 54 2006-10-20 15:37 libjavaplugin_oji.so -> /usr/local/java32/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 angafirith angafirith 92448 2006-09-19 09:39 libnpp.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 angafirith angafirith 19496 2006-09-09 22:41 libnullplugin.so


To make sure it wasn't just a problem with iceweasel, I tried installing the 32 bit version of firefox2 as well. It just crashed when I tried testing java.

[Kilz]

The results of ls -al:

total 6724
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6753912 2006-10-20 01:30 libflashplayer.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 54 2006-10-20 15:37 libjavaplugin_oji.so -> /usr/local/java32/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 angafirith angafirith 92448 2006-09-19 09:39 libnpp.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 angafirith angafirith 19496 2006-09-09 22:41 libnullplugin.so


To make sure it wasn't just a problem with iceweasel, I tried installing the 32 bit version of firefox2 as well. It just crashed when I tried testing java.

Ok try this as I see the plugin is owned by root and in the root group so no one but root can use it.
sudo chown root:users /usr/local/java32/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
Then restart the browser and test java.
You might have to do this to the rest of the files in that section if flash or other plugins dont work
sudo chown root:users /usr/lib32/firefox32/plugins/*

[finite9]

-r--r--r-- 1 andrew users 856 2006-07-27 02:11 flashplayer.xpt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 andrew users 2154768 2006-07-27 02:11 libflashplayer.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root users 62 2006-10-20 19:27 libjavaplugin_oji.so -> /usr/lib/j2se/1.4/jre/plugin/i386/mozilla/libjavaplugin_oji.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 andrew andrew 92448 2006-09-19 15:39 libnpp.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 andrew andrew 19496 2006-09-10 04:41 libnullplugin.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 244412 2006-10-20 20:52 mplayerplug-in-gmp.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 981 2006-10-20 20:52 mplayerplug-in-gmp.xpt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 244540 2006-10-20 20:52 mplayerplug-in-qt.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 981 2006-10-20 20:52 mplayerplug-in-qt.xpt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 244572 2006-10-20 20:52 mplayerplug-in-rm.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 981 2006-10-20 20:52 mplayerplug-in-rm.xpt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 245660 2006-10-20 20:52 mplayerplug-in.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 244860 2006-10-20 20:52 mplayerplug-in-wmp.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 981 2006-10-20 20:52 mplayerplug-in-wmp.xpt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 981 2006-10-20 20:52 mplayerplug-in.xpt


Although mplayer is root owned and flash by me, both mplayer and flash work perfectly ok! Java does notwork and is owned by root:users already

UPDATE: I did like you said chmod root:users and it made no difference. Flash, quicktime and realplayer all work fine in iceweasel. Java works on some sites but not others! a java street map app. worked fine, but not the tax offices java login app.

[Kilz]

-r--r--r-- 1 andrew users 856 2006-07-27 02:11 flashplayer.xpt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 andrew users 2154768 2006-07-27 02:11 libflashplayer.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root users 62 2006-10-20 19:27 libjavaplugin_oji.so -> /usr/lib/j2se/1.4/jre/plugin/i386/mozilla/libjavaplugin_oji.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 andrew andrew 92448 2006-09-19 15:39 libnpp.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 andrew andrew 19496 2006-09-10 04:41 libnullplugin.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 244412 2006-10-20 20:52 mplayerplug-in-gmp.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 981 2006-10-20 20:52 mplayerplug-in-gmp.xpt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 244540 2006-10-20 20:52 mplayerplug-in-qt.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 981 2006-10-20 20:52 mplayerplug-in-qt.xpt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 244572 2006-10-20 20:52 mplayerplug-in-rm.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 981 2006-10-20 20:52 mplayerplug-in-rm.xpt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 245660 2006-10-20 20:52 mplayerplug-in.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 244860 2006-10-20 20:52 mplayerplug-in-wmp.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 981 2006-10-20 20:52 mplayerplug-in-wmp.xpt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 981 2006-10-20 20:52 mplayerplug-in.xpt


Although mplayer is root owned and flash by me, both mplayer and flash work perfectly ok! Java does notwork and is owned by root:users already

UPDATE: I did like you said chmod root:users and it made no difference. Flash, quicktime and realplayer all work fine in iceweasel. Java works on some sites but not others! a java street map app. worked fine, but not the tax offices java login app.

Dose the java test detect that java is installed. Do you have 32bit firefox installed? If so does the java applet from the tax office work on it?

[waiter]

Good article but I have a few comments/modifications on the methods used.

1. You do not have to install 32bit Java-5 plugin "by hand" if you have Dapper! There is a simpler solution via the Synaptic- or apt package-manager way. There is a package called "ia32-sun-java5-bin" in multiverse. It contains the 32bit java5 plugin, so you just have to install it and create a symbolic link for libjavaplugin_oji.so after installing firefox32. Here you go in 2 easy steps:
apt-get install ia32-sun-java5-bin
ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/ia32-java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.06/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/local/firefox32/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so
I know it is not the cutting-edge-latest version 1.5.0.07 but at least it is maintained / updated automatically and easier to deal with. I have tested this on amd64 architecture with 6.06.1 and it DOES work!

2. Why not make and maintain a distinct repository of a coherent set of legacy 32bit packages (re)packaged for the amd64 architecture? Most of the i386 binaries/packages work on the amd64 platform and in most of the cases the only obstacle is the dpkg package manager itself that do not allow you to install a virtually "incompatible" i386 package onto an amd64 system. Therefore I think it would not be a big deal. Moreover all your handmade scripts and/or files could be embedded into meta-(like) packages and everything could be installed/upgraded easily by users using only Synaptic or apt-get.

Anyway, thank you for your struggles to somehow overcome this annoying situation!

- waiter -

[myk.ism]

kilz, just a few noste for firefox2 (manual install) users to avoid confusion:

- i noticed in the firefox2 deb package description it says "To launch open a terminal and type in firefox32" when the command should be "firefox2-32"

- i couldnt install the flash7 player in /usr/lib32/firefox32 even after i created the dir. i discovered i needed to create a "plugins" dir inside before it would install.

- may want to note for firefox2 users that the operations like moving flash player 7 should use "/usr/local/firefox2-32" instead of "/usr/local/firefox32".

- seems like installing firefox2 creates a menu item under (for gnome users at least) "internet" called "firefox32 2.0 beta" which invokes the command "firefox32-beta" which does not exist.

- text in dialogs, like browse for file dialogs, show up as squares. not sure if this is fixable or not. any ideas?

other than those issued, a great guide and a great help. everything is working fine for me now. thanks ;]

[finite9]

I only have 64-bit Firefox and 32-bit iceweasel. Java test *does* work so I suppose that Java "works" But it's weird that the bank ID site for swedish tax office does not work, because if I install 64-bit blackdown java then the site does work, it only fails when using the 32-bit java package in iceweasel. weird. How do you tell if this is a java problem or iceweasel problem?

By the way...there is a problem for me with these scripts...I just noticed that the configuration files for the 32-bit browsers are installed with the software under /usr/local/ but this means I would have to change all my backup scripts....would it be possible to include all config under ~/.iceweasel so that it follows standards for where config is stored?

[Kilz]

I only have 64-bit Firefox and 32-bit iceweasel. Java test *does* work so I suppose that Java "works" But it's weird that the bank ID site for swedish tax office does not work, because if I install 64-bit blackdown java then the site does work, it only fails when using the 32-bit java package in iceweasel. weird. How do you tell if this is a java problem or iceweasel problem?

By the way...there is a problem for me with these scripts...I just noticed that the configuration files for the 32-bit browsers are installed with the software under /usr/local/ but this means I would have to change all my backup scripts....would it be possible to include all config under ~/.iceweasel so that it follows standards for where config is stored?

Its most likly a Iceweasel feature. Iceweasel removes suport (http://gnuzilla.gnu.org/fulltree/iceweasel-1.5.0.7-g1/remove.nonfree) for non-free code. You may want to install 32bit firefox to see if this is the case.
You might also want to install with the install scripts. They will setup your install and make sure everything was done in an up to date way. The manual howto is rather old, its just left up to help people with an already running setup when an update happens in case something breaks.

[trogbot]

Kilz,

Just wanted to thank you for the how-to & scripts. Excellent job & kodo's for the support you give so many users.

Also wanted to let you know that I used your Beta Base Plugin Script & it worked without problems, but had same problem as myk.ism pointed out with the menu item added with script (I choose FF 2.0). On kicking off "Applications-Internet-Firefox32 2.0 Beta", it stated it could not find app. I got around this by creating a launcher on panel, then went into properties for panel icon & changed "command" field to read "firefox2-32 %u". May seem basic to a lot of folks, but I thought I would mention it anyhow.

Another item I noted while reading the how-to is that some are having problems printing. I myself, have no problem (knock-on-wood). I tested with both hi-lighted text within pages & full page print. Although it worked for me, I did notice in the print dialog; that my printer showed as "postscript/default". I should state here that I do have Samba & cupsys going on my box & have all set up so my family (win users) can use my attached printer. I am by no means an expert, but I assume that is why the print dialog box shows as above. It just says; 'send it to the default postscript device'. I believe this is related to Samba/cupsys setup; but, as stated before, I'm no expert, just a guess on my part. Hopefully this might help others in getting print to work with having to save to file before printing.

Thanks again for the great work.:mrgreen:

[ddoxey]

I found it necessary to manually install (via Adept) ia32-libs-gtk.

Otherwise this procedure went very smoothly.
This was very helpful.

Thanks!

[Kilz]

Kilz,

Just wanted to thank you for the how-to & scripts. Excellent job & kodo's for the support you give so many users.

Also wanted to let you know that I used your Beta Base Plugin Script & it worked without problems, but had same problem as myk.ism pointed out with the menu item added with script (I choose FF 2.0). On kicking off "Applications-Internet-Firefox32 2.0 Beta", it stated it could not find app. I got around this by creating a launcher on panel, then went into properties for panel icon & changed "command" field to read "firefox2-32 %u". May seem basic to a lot of folks, but I thought I would mention it anyhow.

Another item I noted while reading the how-to is that some are having problems printing. I myself, have no problem (knock-on-wood). I tested with both hi-lighted text within pages & full page print. Although it worked for me, I did notice in the print dialog; that my printer showed as "postscript/default". I should state here that I do have Samba & cupsys going on my box & have all set up so my family (win users) can use my attached printer. I am by no means an expert, but I assume that is why the print dialog box shows as above. It just says; 'send it to the default postscript device'. I believe this is related to Samba/cupsys setup; but, as stated before, I'm no expert, just a guess on my part. Hopefully this might help others in getting print to work with having to save to file before printing.

Thanks again for the great work.:mrgreen:


Thanks for pointing out the fix, I am uploading a fixed .deb file as I write this. :D

[Kilz]

I found it necessary to manually install (via Adept) ia32-libs-gtk.

Otherwise this procedure went very smoothly.
This was very helpful.

Thanks!

I looked and ia32-libs-gtk is in both scripts. I dont know why it wasnt installed. But I will look into it some more. I have also made a note on the top page.
When you installed, what method did you use, Manual howto, old base-plugin script, or Browser + Plugin script?

[leona]

Hi.

I see you've made some nice updates to the scripts, but why are you still using java 1.4.2 not 1.5? So if I want to install java 1.5 I'll have to use the manual method?

It would seem the problems I'm having with the IRC Char rooms is down to compatibility with Java and certain fonts that Ubuntu likes to install. namly ttf-gujarati-font package, if like me you are having problem with java quiting (taking your browser too) remove this (unused btw) font package.

Always feels like an uphill struggle this, installed end of August and only now just baring getting the system usable, dispite the number of really good howto's....... grrrr!

[T.Louis]

Thank you for this amazing thread!

Almost worth uninstalling 64 bit FF.

[Kilz]

Thank you for this amazing thread!

Almost worth uninstalling 64 bit FF.

Unfortunatly 64bit FF is used by the help system and other things. So it isnt a bad idea to leave it in place. :D

[T.Louis]

Unfortunatly 64bit FF is used by the help system and other things. So it isnt a bad idea to leave it in place. :D

I figured it was a dependency, and it is not like it takes up much space on the harddrive. But this is a great post, I installed everything from it right away, and had no problems, I think that is a first for me! ;)

I give it five :KS :KS :KS :KS :KS out of five hehe!

[wilberfan]

This script allows you to choose the browser you want to install from the ones on this page. It also lets you choose if you want to install the plugins by asking before the plugin is installed. You only have to run this script once. After that you can install any of the other browsers below by double clicking on its deb file. :D
Browser + Base Script Download = base-plugins-browsers-0-3.tar.gz (http://home.comcast.net/~next/base-plugins-browsers-0-4.tar.gz)

That link seems to be dead at the moment. Maybe it's being updated, or...?

[wilberfan]

Ice Weasel
Due to some non free things that are in Firefox and restrictions Mozilla places on its binaries. The GNU.org has made a totaly free (as in beer and freedom) compile of the Firefox code. I have made deb files of it in case you want to use it. It is a lot faster than the normal Firefox builds.
Iceweasel32 1.5.0.7 deb file. (http://home.comcast.net/~ubuntu64user/iceweasel-1.5.0.7-ubuntu-amd64.deb)

Great post! I'd like to try this iceweasel (will there be a 2.0 soon??! :) ) but I get the following error when I open the .deb package:

Error: Dependency not satisfiable: ialib-32-firefox

I'm trying to install the 64bit package...

[Kilz]

Great post! I'd like to try this iceweasel (will there be a 2.0 soon??! :) ) but I get the following error when I open the .deb package:


I'm trying to install the 64bit package...

The script is now avilable. In order to use any of the .deb packages (Firefox, Iceweasel or Flock) you must follow the manual howto, or use the install script. There is a link to that package in the howto or use the install script as it installs it.
Im not sure how long it will take them to make a 2.0 Iceweasel now that the 2.0 of firefox has been released. But it is planned.

[wilberfan64]

Cool!

But can you shed any light on my error message?

Error: Dependency not satisfiable: ialib-32-firefox

[Kilz]

Cool!

But can you shed any light on my error message?

If you are using the Browser + Base script, download the new version. (http://home.comcast.net/~next/base-plugins-browsers-0-5.tar.gz) If you are just downloading the .deb file, install the script, the .deb file is for people who have installed in the last week to upgrade.

[matog]

How do I run Firefox once installed? I tried with
$firefox
and
$firefox32

But it run the previusly version of firefox I had.

(The previous one is firefox 1.5 with plugin, from https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FirefoxAMD64FlashJava)

Now I have downloaded the script from the first post.

[kez]

Did a fresh install of Edgy RC1 today, and ran the latest Kilz script to get 32bit FF2.0+flash/java/mplayer. There is, if I have interpreted my error messages and this thread http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1650931 correctly, a conflict between mplayer32 and ia32-libs-openoffice.org - I'm getting missing dependencies from the above openoffice package. If I've read it right, Conq is coming up with a new package to resolve this?? Anyway, for me at least mplayer32 is unusable until the missing dependencies are resolved. If you install the current ia32-libs-openoffice package in Synaptic, it conflicts with mplayer32.

The suggestion Conq makes of extracting the various missing files is doable but I don't fancy it - it does the usual thing of each time you supply one missing dependency, asking for another, and I've no idea which ones or how many are actually needed to solve it. Looks like patience is needed until the new package arrives. Feel free to correct this if I've got this wrong.

[Kilz]

Did a fresh install of Edgy RC1 today, and ran the latest Kilz script to get 32bit FF2.0+flash/java/mplayer. There is, if I have interpreted my error messages and this thread http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1650931 correctly, a conflict between mplayer32 and ia32-libs-openoffice.org - I'm getting missing dependencies from the above openoffice package. If I've read it right, Conq is coming up with a new package to resolve this?? Anyway, for me at least mplayer32 is unusable until the missing dependencies are resolved. If you install the current ia32-libs-openoffice package in Synaptic, it conflicts with mplayer32.

The suggestion Conq makes of extracting the various missing files is doable but I don't fancy it - it does the usual thing of each time you supply one missing dependency, asking for another, and I've no idea which ones or how many are actually needed to solve it. Looks like patience is needed until the new package arrives. Feel free to correct this if I've got this wrong.


I will see what I can do about adding the file. But if I knew what libraries it askes for next it may help.

[BigWillyT]

Just wanted to say thanks for the great guide! Was very useful and very easy to follow and the only issue that I have is sound not working but I'll get that figured out in due time. Not a big issue at the moment. But thanks again for the guide.

[T.Louis]

Wondering if anyone else is having a bit of display problems with Flash 9 beta & Firefox 2.0? When I installed Firefox 2.0 I got a black frame around some of the flash animations.

[kez]

I will see what I can do about adding the file. But if I knew what libraries it askes for next it may help.

I wish had more time this evening to sit down and work through this but I'm posting on the run as it is. :(

This is how it starts:

mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libaudio.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory


Then if you locate the libaudio.so.2 files from the /usr/lib32/ folder in the extracted data.tar.gz_FILES folder of the ia32-lib-openoffice package as mentioned in Conq's post http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=1641546&postcount=113, and copy them to /usr/lib32/ to satisy this, then run mplayer again, it asks for another dependency from that openoffice folder, and so on - I can't give you much more right now as I didn't get too far into it last night due to time constraints. I may not have even been doing it right in the first place. The only consolation is that this seems to be a known issue, so it might be worth asking Conq?

Really sorry I can't be of more assistance. There are definite limits to my knowledge anyway, so... :icon_frown:

[wilberfan64]

Just had to give you a big, fat, freakin' THANKS for this... I actually WORKED!

Made this n00b very happy...

I even got my flash SOUND to work!! (Turns out, the soundcard wasn't properly selected in my System/Preferences/Sound (!!!)

It's how-to's like this that will keep the Evil Vista away!

Yippie!! Firefox 2.0 AND Flash 9!! :mrgreen:

[div-]

First of, huge thanks to Kilz for the amount of follow up. I've seen quite a number of communities before but I can't say I've seen any as supportive as this.

Next, I used to have a problem with mplayer buffering up to 99% and then just sitting there, whenever I'd hit rightclick -> play it would stop. So I tested a few things and ended up getting it to work as follows.

You should first check if you have both the 64 and 32 mplayer versions, or this won't work, so check by doing:

ls -al /usr/bin/mplayer*


Then, if your result looks like this:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8212848 2006-10-13 03:25 /usr/bin/mplayer
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7251160 2006-06-04 22:31 /usr/bin/mplayer64


Do the following:

cd /usr/bin
sudo mv /usr/bin/mplayer mplayer32
sudo mv /usr/bin/mplayer64 mplayer


Restart firefox and test. This did the trick for me, hope it helps anyone else out there.

[Kilz]

First of, huge thanks to Kilz for the amount of follow up. I've seen quite a number of communities before but I can't say I've seen any as supportive as this.

Next, I used to have a problem with mplayer buffering up to 99% and then just sitting there, whenever I'd hit rightclick -> play it would stop. So I tested a few things and ended up getting it to work as follows.

You should first check if you have both the 64 and 32 mplayer versions, or this won't work, so check by doing:

ls -al /usr/bin/mplayer*


Then, if your result looks like this:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8212848 2006-10-13 03:25 /usr/bin/mplayer
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7251160 2006-06-04 22:31 /usr/bin/mplayer64


Do the following:

cd /usr/bin
sudo mv /usr/bin/mplayer mplayer32
sudo mv /usr/bin/mplayer64 mplayer


Restart firefox and test. This did the trick for me, hope it helps anyone else out there.

Are you using Edgy?

[div-]

Are you using Edgy?

I am, sorry forgot to mention that, I'm a bit of a simpleton ](*,)

[koldor]

Many thanks! Well done.

[Kilz]

I am, sorry forgot to mention that, I'm a bit of a simpleton ](*,)

Its ok, the problem is , that the mplayer32 package needed updating for use on Edgy. But its nice to hear that the 64bit package works. Do you get video from the plugin on webpages?

[wilberfan64]

Kilz, there are a few of us who are having problems with the MPLAYER plugin in Edgy...

Have you seen this thread (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1679069)?

I just tried one of the trailers on the apple site you linked, and it buffered to 99% and stopped....

[rhomp2002]

Having problem with the IA32-lib-firefox. The deb is trying to overlay the pango32 file and the debi won't finish the install. Result is that the is32-lib-firefox doesn't get loaded so the firefox debi won't load either.

Any suggestions? :confused: :confused:

[wilberfan64]

I had to do a clean re-install of Edgy tonight (don't ask), so I tried the browser-install-script at the beginning of this thread again.

It seemed to run OK, but I couldn't find 'firefox32' anywhere on my system when it was finished!

I installed FF2.0 manually, as well as the mplayer plugin, Flash 9, and Java:

Flash works beautifully, when I go to a java site Firefox crashes, and the mplayer plugin starts, but won't play anything. (The Apple movie trailer page--mplayer stops at 99% every time.) Clicking on "Listen" on this site (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6393736) starts up mplayer, but it just stops without playing anything (and there are no control buttons).

:-k

[rhomp2002]

The full file overlay is '/etc/pango32/pangorc' - the error message says that this file is also required for firefox32 along with the 'ia32-lib-firefox-amd64.deb' and therefore the ia32 file cannot be installed.

[IbeeX]

--19:11:26-- http://home.comcast.net/~deletebox/firefox32-2.0-ubuntu-amd64.deb
=> `firefox32-2.0-ubuntu-amd64.deb'
Resolving home.comcast.net... 204.127.198.24
Connecting to home.comcast.net|204.127.198.24|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not found
19:11:28 ERROR 404: Not found.


there is no firefox32 deb here :)

[Kilz]

The full file overlay is '/etc/pango32/pangorc' - the error message says that this file is also required for firefox32 along with the 'ia32-lib-firefox-amd64.deb' and therefore the ia32 file cannot be installed.

The solution is to use the force to overwrite.
sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite ia32-lib-firefox-amd64.deb

[Kilz]

--19:11:26-- http://home.comcast.net/~deletebox/firefox32-2.0-ubuntu-amd64.deb
=> `firefox32-2.0-ubuntu-amd64.deb'
Resolving home.comcast.net... 204.127.198.24
Connecting to home.comcast.net|204.127.198.24|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not found
19:11:28 ERROR 404: Not found.


there is no firefox32 deb here :)

Sorry, I thought that script worked. But there was an error in it. .Use this one (http://home.comcast.net/~next/base-plugins-browsers-0-6.tar.gz)

[Kilz]

I had to do a clean re-install of Edgy tonight (don't ask), so I tried the browser-install-script at the beginning of this thread again.

It seemed to run OK, but I couldn't find 'firefox32' anywhere on my system when it was finished!

I installed FF2.0 manually, as well as the mplayer plugin, Flash 9, and Java:

Flash works beautifully, when I go to a java site Firefox crashes, and the mplayer plugin starts, but won't play anything. (The Apple movie trailer page--mplayer stops at 99% every time.) Clicking on "Listen" on this site (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6393736) starts up mplayer, but it just stops without playing anything (and there are no control buttons).

:-k

There is a problem with the mplayer32 package the plugin uses on Edgy. I was waiting on an updated package from then mplayer32 howto. But I am not working on it.
I also notice that the site you were trying to listen to is about a comic book writer. I have a great love of comics. I tried to pm you some information, but your account is set up not to allow pm's it says.

[wilberfan64]

Ooops. This is a relatively new account--setup so I can post my 64bit issues separately from my 32bit ones! I'll get my PMs set up...

I await a solution to this dilema! Thanks for all your help!

[rogeriovinhal]

Hey Kilz, I was wondering...
Why don't you make options in the script to install Java 1.5.0 and Flash 9?
They are much better, and sticking to Java 1.4.2 makes a lot of incompatibility problems for me...

That's not a real problem, but it would make things easier...
Probably I may edit the script for myself at home so it can automate even more the process...

[Kilz]

Hey Kilz, I was wondering...
Why don't you make options in the script to install Java 1.5.0 and Flash 9?
They are much better, and sticking to Java 1.4.2 makes a lot of incompatibility problems for me...

That's not a real problem, but it would make things easier...
Probably I may edit the script for myself at home so it can automate even more the process...

Java 1.5.0 may be possible. But Flash 9 is in beta. The file name will be changing a lot. This would make it hard to get and install by script.

[rockets]

So, what's the solution for the missing printers issue ? My 32 bit FIrefox is missing the printers that the 64 bit native Dapper shows. Where are printers read from in Firefox ?

[Kilz]

So, what's the solution for the missing printers issue ? My 32 bit FIrefox is missing the printers that the 64 bit native Dapper shows. Where are printers read from in Firefox ?

Sorry, there is no solution. The Firefox32 cant use the 64bit printer setup, it never has been able to. A work around is printing it to a file. Then open the file and print that. Another option is to install a i386 chroot and install the Firefox and printer system there. But I have never done this, so I cant tell you how to do it.

[grendel_x86]

I had a rough start w/ this script. By page 3 I thought i messed up (no plugins worked), by page 20 i thought it was something w/ the edgy upgrade (at this point everything was working except flash), by page 40 i was confused.

I couldnt get flash to work for anything, so took the next logical step I found anything to do w/ firefox, and deleted it. I reinstalled firefox(64) through synaptec, then re-ran your script, and everything works perfectly.

This thread has shown alot of dedication, and patience, I could never have done it. Thanks.

[stefanokan]

Using last Edgy Eft 6.10 and installing java with the automated scripts i obtain following error:

Spacchetto j2re1.4 (da j2re1.4_1.4.2.02-1ubuntu3_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: problemi con le dipendenze impediscono la configurazione di j2re1.4:
j2re1.4 dipende da java-common; comunque:
Package java-common is not installed.
dpkg: errore processando j2re1.4 (--install):
problemi con le dipendenze - lasciato non configurato
Sono occorsi degli errori processando:
j2re1.4

I enabled all repository, i don't understand the problem.
Thanks for help.

[stefanokan]

Solved the problem.
The java-common packet was not installed.
I installed it with Synaptic.

[musper]

Whoa!

Your autoinstall has saved me from loosing +hours to get flash and anything else you've packaged installed in no-time. I have already spent few hours installing it through nspluginwrapper...and gave your script a try after I decided that having an 32bit app like browser on 64bit system is a cool option :). Thats why I love linux. Installed on dapper 6.0.6.1 LTS amd64_generic running on Intel 820D dual core.

Thanks so much!

musper

[Kilz]

Whoa!

Your autoinstall has saved me from loosing +hours to get flash and anything else you've packaged installed in no-time. I have already spent few hours installing it through nspluginwrapper...and gave your script a try after I decided that having an 32bit app like browser on 64bit system is a cool option :). Thats why I love linux. Installed on dapper 6.0.6.1 LTS amd64_generic running on Intel 820D dual core.

Thanks so much!

musper

Your welcome :D

[KAding]

Hello,

First let me thank you for the great job on the script and How-to. However, I'm having some issues getting Flash to work on edgy 64-bit. I installed firefox32 without any problems. It is working great, so is the java plugin.

But Flash will always crash the browser. It doesn't matter which version I use, 7 or the beta 9. I removed any trace of firefox from the system and completely reinstalled it. I made sure there were no double libflash.so files anywhere.

If I run firefox32 in a console and go to any website containing flash I just get the following error:

Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
Using the fallback 'C' locale.
The program 'firefox-bin' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
(Details: serial 86 error_code 8 request_code 146 minor_code 3)
(Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)


I really have no idea what could be wrong :(. I must say I haven't been able to get the stand-alone Flash 9 player to run either. It does not crash, but simply shows nothing :(.

Internet without Flash is kinda difficult in this day and age. Anyone have any ideas?

[ewel]

:( I still have a problem with java - firefox crashes everytime i want go to page with some simple java applet. I've been trying find the answer here but it isn't easy due to numberr of pages...


ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib32/libpangohack.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be pr eloaded: ignored.
current locale is not supported in X11, locale is set to CX locale modifiers are not supported, using defaultINTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: SendRequest: Read of ack failed: 0

System error?:: Success


there is something like this in konsole
please help me

(this is my first post on this forum, and I can't speak english well so be forgiving ;-) )

[Kilz]

Hello,

First let me thank you for the great job on the script and How-to. However, I'm having some issues getting Flash to work on edgy 64-bit. I installed firefox32 without any problems. It is working great, so is the java plugin.

But Flash will always crash the browser. It doesn't matter which version I use, 7 or the beta 9. I removed any trace of firefox from the system and completely reinstalled it. I made sure there were no double libflash.so files anywhere.

If I run firefox32 in a console and go to any website containing flash I just get the following error:

Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
Using the fallback 'C' locale.
The program 'firefox-bin' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
(Details: serial 86 error_code 8 request_code 146 minor_code 3)
(Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)


I really have no idea what could be wrong :(. I must say I haven't been able to get the stand-alone Flash 9 player to run either. It does not crash, but simply shows nothing :(.

Internet without Flash is kinda difficult in this day and age. Anyone have any ideas?

Did you manulay install or did you use the script?

[Kilz]

:( I still have a problem with java - firefox crashes everytime i want go to page with some simple java applet. I've been trying find the answer here but it isn't easy due to numberr of pages...


ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib32/libpangohack.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be pr eloaded: ignored.
current locale is not supported in X11, locale is set to CX locale modifiers are not supported, using defaultINTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: SendRequest: Read of ack failed: 0

System error?:: Success


there is something like this in konsole
please help me

(this is my first post on this forum, and I can't speak english well so be forgiving ;-) )


Did you install with the manual howto or use the setup script?

[evilgeek]

I'm getting the same error as KADing on the Flash plugin (v9 beta). I used your script to install it on Edgy. Whenever Firefox32 loads a flash site, the flash plugin crashes with Firefox32. :[

[iyeo]

I have everything working except acroread. It crashes the browser every time. The app itself runs fine when not being called from the browser. Any ideas?

[iyeo]

I even have Flash 9 working perfectly and I can view the nikeair site. Very cool.

[ewel]

firstly I used base-plugins-browsers-0-5.tar.gz, everything was ok till mplayer-plugin installing, but it's not important for me.
i tried to visit page with java applet and.. it crashed.
so i installed java using:

cd ~/Desktop
sudo bash
chmod 777 ./jre-1_5_0_07-linux-i586.bin
./jre-1_5_0_07-linux-i586.bin


mkdir /usr/local/java32
cp -r -p ./jre1.5.0_07/* /usr/local/java32
cd /usr/lib32/firefox32/plugins/
ln -s /usr/local/java32/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so ./


sudo chown -R <username>:users /home/<username>/.java

but firefox still crashes

[terminateprocess]

I'm having the exact same problem as KAding in edgy; the browser just crashes whenever trying to display anything using flash. I installed manually, first using Flash 7 and then Flash 9. Both give the exact same error:

(firefox-bin:7013): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
Using the fallback 'C' locale.

(firefox-bin:7013): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
Using the fallback 'C' locale.
The program 'firefox-bin' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
(Details: serial 83 error_code 8 request_code 143 minor_code 3)
(Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
Segmentation fault (core dumped)


Could it have something to do with the C library warning above? If so, what would I do to fix this?

[Kilz]

I'm having the exact same problem as KAding in edgy; the browser just crashes whenever trying to display anything using flash. I installed manually, first using Flash 7 and then Flash 9. Both give the exact same error:

(firefox-bin:7013): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
Using the fallback 'C' locale.

(firefox-bin:7013): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
Using the fallback 'C' locale.
The program 'firefox-bin' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
(Details: serial 83 error_code 8 request_code 143 minor_code 3)
(Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
Segmentation fault (core dumped)


Could it have something to do with the C library warning above? If so, what would I do to fix this?


It appears that those that do the manual install are having problems. Run the install script and see if the problems go away.

[Angafirith]

I finally, after installing at least 5 different 32 bit browsers (Firefox32, Firefox2-32, Iceweasel32 from the original post and Firefox 3 and Swiftfox), I finally managed to get Java working in one: Swiftfox. It still does not work in IceWeasel, and I have not tested the others yet.

I went to the following page: http://java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml

It crashed Java, which is what I expected. I went into the preferences, disabled Java, and reloaded the page. Then, I re-enabled Java and reloaded again. Everything worked after that.

I'm having a different issue now, though. Depending on the order that I start the processes, they seem to be joining up incorrectly. I had wanted to have the two browsers running at the same time. I set up separate profiles, but they're still connecting in certain circumstances.

EDIT: Nov 10 11:30
I'm an idiot and put the wrong link in.

[gratefulfrog]

Hi!

This is a great thread!

I have a little problem: after installing firefox 2 and the plugins using the script, I get an error from the synaptic update manager saying that my index is broken and I have to run apg-get install -f. When I do that, a new java j2rel.4 is installed?

Any ideas?

Cheers,
GF

[Kilz]

I finally, after installing at least 5 different 32 bit browsers (Firefox32, Firefox2-32, Iceweasel32 from the original post and Firefox 3 and Swiftfox), I finally managed to get Java working in one: Swiftfox. It still does not work in IceWeasel, and I have not tested the others yet.

I went to the following page: http://java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml

It crashed Java, which is what I expected. I went into the preferences, disabled Java, and reloaded the page. Then, I re-enabled Java and reloaded again. Everything worked after that.

I'm having a different issue now, though. Depending on the order that I start the processes, they seem to be joining up incorrectly. I had wanted to have the two browsers running at the same time. I set up separate profiles, but they're still connecting in certain circumstances.

EDIT: Nov 10 11:30
I'm an idiot and put the wrong link in.

I do not recomment Swiftfox to any user. If the problem is with it , you may have a hard time getting it to work.
On the other browsers, what method did you follow , the automatic setup script, or the manual howto?

[Kilz]

Hi!

This is a great thread!

I have a little problem: after installing firefox 2 and the plugins using the script, I get an error from the synaptic update manager saying that my index is broken and I have to run apg-get install -f. When I do that, a new java j2rel.4 is installed?

Any ideas?

Cheers,
GF

It may be installing a newer version. Does the java plugin work?

[gratefulfrog]

It may be installing a newer version. Does the java plugin work?

The java plugin worked after running the script, and it still worked after synaptic installed j2rel.4 (a big download). I'm not sure what actually happened, but all is well now!

Let me know if you want me to do any more research!

Cheers,
GF.

[holycalamity]

Hi there. The automatic install seems to go fine. But when I run firefox32 from the terminal I get this error:

/usr/local/firefox32/run-mozilla.sh: 424: /usr/local/firefox32/firefox-bin: not found


I tried the manual install, but got the below. Can anyone help?

x@x:~$ sudo apt-get install ia32-libs lib32asound2 lib32ncurses5 ia32-libs-sdl ia32-libs-gtk gsfonts gsfonts-x11 linux32
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
gsfonts is already the newest version.
linux32 is already the newest version.
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies.
ia32-libs: Depends: lib32stdc++6 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: lib32gcc1 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: lib32z1 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libc6-i386 but it is not going to be installed
ia32-libs-sdl: Depends: lib32gcc1 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: lib32z1 but it is not going to be installed
lib32asound2: Depends: libc6-i386 (>= 2.4-1) but it is not going to be installed
lib32ncurses5: Depends: libc6-i386 (>= 2.4-1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

[Kilz]

Hi there. The automatic install seems to go fine. But when I run firefox32 from the terminal I get this error:

/usr/local/firefox32/run-mozilla.sh: 424: /usr/local/firefox32/firefox-bin: not found


I tried the manual install, but got the below. Can anyone help?

x@x:~$ sudo apt-get install ia32-libs lib32asound2 lib32ncurses5 ia32-libs-sdl ia32-libs-gtk gsfonts gsfonts-x11 linux32
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
gsfonts is already the newest version.
linux32 is already the newest version.
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies.
ia32-libs: Depends: lib32stdc++6 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: lib32gcc1 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: lib32z1 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libc6-i386 but it is not going to be installed
ia32-libs-sdl: Depends: lib32gcc1 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: lib32z1 but it is not going to be installed
lib32asound2: Depends: libc6-i386 (>= 2.4-1) but it is not going to be installed
lib32ncurses5: Depends: libc6-i386 (>= 2.4-1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages



Ok, I need some information from you. What version of Ubuntu are you running, are you running Kubuntu or Xubuntu?

[Kilz]

The java plugin worked after running the script, and it still worked after synaptic installed j2rel.4 (a big download). I'm not sure what actually happened, but all is well now!

Let me know if you want me to do any more research!

Cheers,
GF.

It looks like it just upgraded to a newer version. Thanks for the info, because Im not running Edgy. So everything I learn from others will help people down the road.

[RobertR]

G'day,

Great how to.
I am stuck on installing Firefox.. I tried using the base plugins install. I already had the 64 bit version of Firefox installed. So I tried your suggestion:

sudo rm /usr/bin/firefox
sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/firefox32 /usr/bin/firefox

And I found that Firefox32 did not exist.
So I ran firefox32-1.5.0.7-2-ubuntu-amd64.deb and it says:

firefox32 depends on linux32; however:
Package linux32 is not installed.
firefox32 depends on gsfonts-x11; however:
Package gsfonts-x11 is not installed.
dpkg:error processing firefox32 (--install):
dependancy problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
firefox32

I am installing these packages and will let you know the results.

[Kilz]

G'day,

Great how to.
I am stuck on installing Firefox.. I tried using the base plugins install. I already had the 64 bit version of Firefox installed. So I tried your suggestion:

sudo rm /usr/bin/firefox
sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/firefox32 /usr/bin/firefox

And I found that Firefox32 did not exist.
So I ran firefox32-1.5.0.7-2-ubuntu-amd64.deb and it says:

firefox32 depends on linux32; however:
Package linux32 is not installed.
firefox32 depends on gsfonts-x11; however:
Package gsfonts-x11 is not installed.
dpkg:error processing firefox32 (--install):
dependancy problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
firefox32

I am installing these packages and will let you know the results.

Cool, but if you followed the manual howto, installing those packages should have been the first step. I also dont recomment completly replacing the 64bit firefox. The instructions on how to do it are for those who "must" have it that way.

[neighborlee]

This howto is not going to be a copy of the old one but will be updated. The old one was for Breezy and a lot has changed since Dapper was released. I have also tested this script with Edgy Knot 2 & 3 and have found no problems. The old one was "Firefox 1.5 with Flash and Java working 100% in amd64" howto by kurushi.
I do not recommend Swiftfox. The person who compiles it takes the FOSS Firefox code, then restricts other people from distributing it. This IMHO is perverting the license.



using your mplayer script to install plugin , I still can not get this website to play videos:

http://www.gamespot.com < click on 'video' under Guitar Hero II

thx
neighbolree()

[RFScheer]

I've done both script and manual installs but am still having trouble with sound in both flashplayer and mplayer. On the other hand, sound is configured fine for xmms, alsaplayer, vlc and totem.

Firefox32 v2.0 is running fine.

One clue is obtained by trying to launch gmplayer from the terminal, which gives an error message indicating no libaudio.so in /usr/lib32/.

The only libaudio type files in /usr/lib32/ are libaudiofile.so symlinks and targets.

There are libaudio.so files in /usr/lib/ on the other hand. Of course, these give 64b error messages when I try to use them in /usr/lib32/.

I'm not sure how to obtain these 32b audio drivers and would LOVE any help!!!

Thanks.

Edit1 - I checked the package notes and found that libaudio is not part of the main sound system but is a network audio file system. I'll poke more into nas config in the mplayer config and see if I can get around this problem that way.

Edit2 - Checking around, I found that these and other 32b files can be downloaded from

http://packages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin/download.pl?arch=amd64&file=pool%2Fmain%2Fi%2Fia32-libs-openoffice.org%2Fia32-libs-openoffice.org_11.0.1_amd64.deb&md5sum=be317b7ed001a4665832cf065fe3e896&arch=amd64&type=security

I just downloaded the .deb to my desktop, unpacked and put all the /lib32 files into my /lib32 and all the /usr/lib32 files into my /usr/lib32. Now gmplayer works fine. But not flash movie sound. Getting there!! Oh - you can't do a simple Synaptic install of the ia32-libs-openoffice package because it will conflict with mplayer32 already installed.

[RobertR]

Hello again,

Well I have completed the manual install and its all working except for java.

At present after I have peformed all the manual instructions under java, I try to restart the browser and visit the site suggested and the browser crashes.

I notice however when I type:
sudo chown -R robert:uesrs /home/robert/.java

I get the error:
chown: cannot access `/home/robert/.java': No such file or directory

I am using Kubuntu 6.16
Is there anything else I should have installed?


:-k

[RFScheer]

I've been testing a new install using Automatix2 and it's all working perfectly. The 32b browser is Swiftfox. Highly recommended!

[Kilz]

I've been testing a new install using Automatix2 and it's all working perfectly. The 32b browser is Swiftfox. Highly recommended!

I dont recomment Swiftfox to anyone who perfers free as in freedom software. It has a proprietary license that restricts one of the 4 freedoms of free software. The freedom to redistribute. Sadly this is taken away because the code it is compiled from without modification is firefox and it has that freedom.
While some may not care about freedom, it is the reason Linux exists. The reason you have Ubuntu. I totaly recommend supporting free as in freedom software. That is why my howto supports Iceweasel, Firefox, and Flock. :D

[Kilz]

Hello again,

Well I have completed the manual install and its all working except for java.

At present after I have peformed all the manual instructions under java, I try to restart the browser and visit the site suggested and the browser crashes.

I notice however when I type:
sudo chown -R robert:uesrs /home/robert/.java

I get the error:
chown: cannot access `/home/robert/.java': No such file or directory

I am using Kubuntu 6.16
Is there anything else I should have installed?


:-k


If you are having problems with the manual howto I suggest running the automatic install script.

[RFScheer]

Kilz, I have benefited greatly from all the work and information you have provided in this forum. My heartfelt thanks to you and absolutely no offense intended or taken by this discussion!!

I did have some issues after a clean install of edgy with your script and also the manual procedure, mainly getting sound to work with flash/java plugins. I enjoyed going through the efforts though because I learned a lot. On the other hand, Automatix2 was problem-free and also more helpful with extra stuff like the nvidia driver, root scripts, etc. After 2 days of testing now, I'm convinced my setup is stable and "permanent" and am very happy with it.

Regarding the swiftfox license, I know there is some debate about it but frankly can't understand the concern. The source is completely open based on the Mozilla public license just like Firefox while the "optimized binaries" targeted for different architectures (hence the "swift" part of the name) are restricted. I use the proprietary nvidia driver for my graphics card and that is far more restrictive in its license, being totally not open. But if nvidia used swiftfox's license as a model, I personally would be VERY happy about that.

On the other hand, it appears that if you really want to speed up the browser, swiftfox and the other firefox derivatives may not do that much good, while opera and konqueror have been measured to be quite a bit faster, according to Wikipedia anyway.

For newbies (that's me!) and especially for AMD64 installs, Automatix is hard to beat!

[DROP]

How can I remove the 32 bit Blackdown jre that your script installed? My other 64 bit Java apps are no longer working because of this...

[Kilz]

How can I remove the 32 bit Blackdown jre that your script installed? My other 64 bit Java apps are no longer working because of this...

Its a package, the easiest way would be to search for blackdown in Synaptic and uninstall it from there.

[DavidWF]

Hey, actually the problem with "Bad Match" X11 errors when Flash loads isn't with whether they use your script or not (though it was broken on Edgy when I tried it, was trying to find stuff in ~/Desktop even if it'd downloaded to somewhere else).

The problem that causes the "Bad Match" some is a known bug, see here:

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/flashplugin-nonfree/+bug/62988

The workaround is to put this in your /usr/bin/firefox:

export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1

Or you could put it in /etc/profile or whatever. Just so long as that variable is set every time you run firefox.

HTH

[Kilz]

Hey, actually the problem with "Bad Match" X11 errors when Flash loads isn't with whether they use your script or not (though it was broken on Edgy when I tried it, was trying to find stuff in ~/Desktop even if it'd downloaded to somewhere else).

The problem that causes the "Bad Match" some is a known bug, see here:

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/flashplugin-nonfree/+bug/62988

The workaround is to put this in your /usr/bin/firefox:

export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1

Or you could put it in /etc/profile or whatever. Just so long as that variable is set every time you run firefox.

HTH

Thank you for the information. I will be incorporating it into the launchers soon.

[gratefulfrog]

Hi!

I've followed these instructions many times, and usually with 100% success. however, now that I've moved to Firfox 2.0 I've lost my quicktime plugin? I've tried installing the mplayer plugin with the script, but it fails since I already have the usr/lib/win32 codecs directory.

Any ideas?

Thanks
GF.

[Kilz]

Hi!

I've followed these instructions many times, and usually with 100% success. however, now that I've moved to Firfox 2.0 I've lost my quicktime plugin? I've tried installing the mplayer plugin with the script, but it fails since I already have the usr/lib/win32 codecs directory.

Any ideas?

Thanks
GF.

Sadly there is still a problem getting the mplayer plugin working on Edgy.

[gratefulfrog]

I'm only running Dapper but I installed firefox2 32 manually myself...

In that case, any suggestions on getting quicktime back?

[gratefulfrog]

I just upgraded to edgy and the situation isn't great.

I still can't get the mplayer plugin to install, nor can I get mplayer (mplayer64) built with the script to work.

I am forced to build mplayer from sources, I guess, and the plugin too.

What do y'all think?

[mepisguy]

Hi Kilz,

Great work.

I was wondering where you got libpangohack. I don't see any source code for it. Since the binary is freely released without the source, I assume it is under an OSS license (maybe BSD?) or public domain, but obviously not GPL.

TIA,

Warren

BTW, AFAIK Firefox is OSS and not "F"OSS. So your comment about the Swiftfox guy might be a bit misleading. On the other hand, I don't know what he did or how he licensed what he did, so I don't know, maybe he did violate the MPL OSS license.

[CeeDub]

I just upgraded to edgy and I installed your script. When I run firefox32 I get error messages like these:


(firefox-bin:9242): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
Using the fallback 'C' locale.

(firefox-bin:9242): Gtk-WARNING **: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libqtengine.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64

(firefox-bin:9242): Gtk-WARNING **: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libqtengine.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64


Firefox does not start and I am left unhappy. Any help Kilz?

[Kilz]

Hi Kilz,

Great work.

I was wondering where you got libpangohack. I don't see any source code for it. Since the binary is freely released without the source, I assume it is under an OSS license (maybe BSD?) or public domain, but obviously not GPL.

TIA,

Warren

BTW, AFAIK Firefox is OSS and not "F"OSS. So your comment about the Swiftfox guy might be a bit misleading. On the other hand, I don't know what he did or how he licensed what he did, so I don't know, maybe he did violate the MPL OSS license.

The libpangohack is part of the ia32-libs-gtk Breezy Ubuntu packages and did not come with source or license. So I'm really not sure what it is. Im contacting the name in the .deb file to make sure. Perhaps Ill just rewrite the script to download that .deb file and extract the files.

As for Firefox being oss and not foss. Acording to the FSF (http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/index_html#GPLIncompatibleLicenses) the MPL is a free software license. Its incompatible with the GPL. But its still a free software license. The code in firefox is avilable, you can chamge it, you can release it under the gpl. You just cant call it firefox.
Swiftfox on the other hand restricts redistribution. No distro can distribute it, or anyone else. Sadly this is one freedom Firefox has that Swiftfox takes away. So in effect its even worse than the parent.
What the builder of Swiftfox did was Tivo Firefox IMHO.

Its also amazing how your 1 post in all the Ubuntu forums is here in this thread discussing Swiftfox. I hope it helped you.

[Genral]

i take it there is no solution to the mozilla mplayer problem

maybe this will help

general@Atlantis:~$ gmplayer
gmplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libaudio.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
general@Atlantis:~$ mplayer
mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libaudio.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory


EDIT: fixed in three steps
reinstall mplayer [standard]
enable glx [YES]
now it should run, be sure to select gl as your video output
PS: use the 32 bit for everything as i am not sure of the 64 bit version

[quickk]

Hi everyone,

First of all, thank you Kilz for taking the time to write these instructions and making the install script. I have a few questions for you:

1. How can you uninstall what was installed by the script? For example, I want to uninstall firefox32, and I tried "sudo dpkg -r firefox32-2.0-ubuntu-amd64" and all sorts of variants, but it doesn't work (I get a message saying that it isn't installed). I would also like to uninstall the java 1.4 that was installed by the script, but I get the same problem.

2. The reason why I want to uninstall these things is that I want to start over the process from scratch. I didn't realize that your script installed java 1.4 and not java 1.5 (which I need). Is there an easy way to modify your script so that it installs java 1.5 plugin instead? I don't see the point otherwise, because a 64bit java 1.4 plugin already exists.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

[Kilz]

Hi everyone,

First of all, thank you Kilz for taking the time to write these instructions and making the install script. I have a few questions for you:

1. How can you uninstall what was installed by the script? For example, I want to uninstall firefox32, and I tried "sudo dpkg -r firefox32-2.0-ubuntu-amd64" and all sorts of variants, but it doesn't work (I get a message saying that it isn't installed). I would also like to uninstall the java 1.4 that was installed by the script, but I get the same problem.

2. The reason why I want to uninstall these things is that I want to start over the process from scratch. I didn't realize that your script installed java 1.4 and not java 1.5 (which I need). Is there an easy way to modify your script so that it installs java 1.5 plugin instead? I don't see the point otherwise, because a 64bit java 1.4 plugin already exists.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

The script installs packages, you can search synaptic or sudo dpkg -r packagename. What reason do you need the 32bit version of java for? The only application that uses it is the 32bit Firefox.

[quickk]

Thanks for the reply. I don't really want 32bit java, it's just that there is no 64 bit java 1.5 plugin (I've searched a really long time for one, but it seems that it just doesn't exist yet). I need the 1.5 version because the photosharing site that I use doesn't work without it. So the only way that I see to get java 1.5 plugin to work is to install the 32 bit version.

As for uninstalling things, my problem is that I don't know what to use for the package name since the package name isn't necessarily the same as the file that was used to install the package. Is there any way to list all of the installed packages?

Thanks!

[HeresJohnny]

Thanks, Kilz. Worked like a charm on my Compaq Presario V2000. Now if only I could get my wireless working in Edgy, I'd be so happy my feet wouldn't even touch the ground.](*,)

[Stephen Robertson]

To completely replace the 64-bit FireFox, all you need is a symbolic link in /usr/local/bin pointing to the 32-bit FireFox.

cd /usr/local/bin
sudo ln -s firefox32 firefox

Because /usr/local/bin appears before /usr/bin in the $PATH environment variable, whenever the firefox command is invoked, the system will automatically launch the 32-bit browser rather than the 64-bit one. The only time the 64-bit browser would be launched is if the full path to the 64-bit executable is given (e.g., typing /usr/bin/firefox in a terminal window rather than just firefox).

[quickk]

Thanks Stephen, that was a very good explanation.

In regards to 64 bit Ubuntu, I've finally thrown in the towel. I had very good reasons to use 64 bit (lots of compiling, scientific apps, running simulations), but being the complete Linux neophyte that I am, my experience with 64 bit Ubuntu was like continuously bashing my head against the wall. I've now installed the 32 bit version, and everything just works!

I originally was using 64bit SUSE 10.1, and really didn't have any problems running 32bit/64bit software. I couldn't stand the installer problems though so that's why I tried Ubuntu. When suse 10.2 comes out (which I hear is very soon), I'll probably try it out and see if it has it's any better.

On a side note, is it possible to use the universe repositories and apt-get with an rpm based linux?

Thanks again for the help!

[drunken_sapo]

Hi, in the first place thanks for this great howto. I've run the script but it fails at the instalation of mplayer. Im using ubuntu edgy with the lastest updated. I got the following error:

(Reading database ... 153416 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking mplayer32 (from mplayer32_1.0pre7-1_amd64.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing mplayer32_1.0pre7-1_amd64.deb (--install):
trying to overwrite `/usr/lib32/liblzo.so.1.0.0', which is also in package ia32-libs-openoffice.org
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
mplayer32_1.0pre7-1_amd64.deb
mv: cannot stat `/usr/bin/mplayer': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat `/usr/bin/mplayer32': No such file or directory

But in spite of this error, the script goes on and it seems to finish succesfully. At this point, i expect firefox to work but with no plugin, but when i run firefox32 and try to access a web page with flash enabled it crashes with the following error:

The program 'firefox-bin' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
(Details: serial 86 error_code 8 request_code 146 minor_code 3)
(Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)


I've no clue about this error, any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
sapo

[drunken_sapo]

I don't know if this could be of any help, but after getting that error with kilz script (great work BTW!!), I got tired and decided to turn into a chroot environment, which was working neatly for me in dapper. After installing and configuring....I get exactly the same crash with firefox and flash. At least this tells us that it has nothing to do with the way the script made things.
I hope we can come up with a solution, this is getting too many people bored.
Bye and thanks again for your help.

[drunken_sapo]

At last I've managed to make it work. Digging around I've found this bug https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/14911
and as suggested there, you can fix it by editing /usr/bin/firefox and adding the following line export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1.
I worked fine for me.
Regards,
sapo

[InsanityPlan]

I've just installed 32-bit Firefox on my AMD64 Ubuntu Edgy with the java and flash9 plugins. It seems stable, but I get absolutely no sound whatsoever. I can play my mp3's using Xmms just fine, but I've tried everything in this thread and haven't gotten sound working with my 32-bit browser. Any ideas? TIA

[drunken_sapo]

Well, after I changed that variable, the same happened to me, no sound at all. I was able to fix it, but what I'm posting here is only the solution made from the point of view of a really tired 64 bit user, I know its far from being the best, but I don't really care since it works.
You can find some info in this bug report:
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/14911
Which led me to this other https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/29760.
Following some of the suggestions there I found out that you can change the way firefox interacts with /dev/dsp. If you look at the /etc/firefox/firefoxrc you will see this:
---
# which /dev/dsp wrapper to use
FIREFOX_DSP="none"
# Note that "auto" and "esd" involve the use of esddsp, which
# is known to be buggy and to make Firefox unstable.
# See https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/29760.
---
If you change "none" by "aoss" you will make sound work again. In those post there are some discussions about this.
I hope it works for you.
sapo.

[Or'Enn]

There's a typo in your mplayerplug-in script. I am guessing md should be mkdir. It works when I change that in the script.
But I get the libaudio.so.2 error when I start mplayer, so I guess it's not much good for me.
mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libaudio.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[jkroto]

Thanks for this easy how-to. Followed the automated install and worked like a charm to get 32-bit FF with flash working on my new Edgy 64-bit Install. Just built a new system with a Core 2 Duo and have never had a 64-bit install before (first all Linux machine, no more MS). Hoping it sticks.
I’ve been looking to get a Citrix ICAclient running to log into work (noticed that www.citrix.com does have a 64-bit version for windoze…ack!).
If I download the 32-bit citrix client is there anything special I need to do to get it to work with 32-bit FF?
I have it working on my other Ubuntu Dapper 32-bit system.

EDIT: got Citrix client working and wrote up how here (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1860514#post1860514)
Thanks to Kilz for this guide and the Wine on 64-bit guide as well.

[gaaslight]

I tried running your script and now synaptic is broken.........
E: The package j2re1.4 needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.
E: Internal error opening cache (1). Please report.

[Kilz]

There's a typo in your mplayerplug-in script. I am guessing md should be mkdir. It works when I change that in the script.
But I get the libaudio.so.2 error when I start mplayer, so I guess it's not much good for me.
mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libaudio.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

What version of Ubuntu are you running?

[Kilz]

Hi, in the first place thanks for this great howto. I've run the script but it fails at the instalation of mplayer. Im using ubuntu edgy with the lastest updated. I got the following error:

I've no clue about this error, any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
sapo

The mplayer package and plugins are incompatable with EDGY and this is clearly posted on the main page of the howto

[gaaslight]

I tried running your script and now synaptic is broken.........
E: The package j2re1.4 needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.
E: Internal error opening cache (1). Please report.

I'm not saying you're responsible, but I would appreciate some help getting synaptic working again. I've unsuccessfully tried uninstalling j2re1.4. Should I try to install j2re5.0?

[gaaslight]

It turns out that I never completely installed jre1.4. After running your script again and waiting for java to finish installing, synaptic is fixed and everything works as you said it would.

[Kilz]

It turns out that I never completely installed jre1.4. After running your script again and waiting for java to finish installing, synaptic is fixed and everything works as you said it would.

cool, sorry for not responding, I meant to, but got called away from the computer, then forgot.

[peacekpr]

I wanted to let everyone having mplayer-plugin issues in on a temporary fix for Mozilla-based browsers. I installed Iceweasel 32-bit and was able to get Flash and Java working, but I couldn't get the mplayer-plugin to get past 99% for streaming video. I searched the forums for at least an hour and didn't really find a solution. Then I made my way to #ubuntu on irc.freenode.net where someone had a solution that worked: The MediaPlayerConnectivity Browser Extension

Go to http://membres.lycos.fr/sethnakht/ and look for XPI (Exenstion) download. Download the file to the directory of your choice. Once it's done downloading, Click on "Open File" in the "File" menu of your Mozilla-based browser. Find the XPI file you just downloaded. This will install the extension. To configure the extension, restart your web browser. You should now be able to view online streaming content albeit not embedded in the web page. But it's something that works.

Good luck!

[phossal]

I used your script earlier in the year, but after upgrading to Edgy, firefox crashes when I try to access the chess applets via games.yahoo.com

Any ideas?

[gearshifter]

Alright, since the orginal firefox32 install i did wasn't working on Feisty, i decided to give this a run on the new Development version just for kicks.

Well, Everything ran GREAT, but everytime i run the firefox32 app it cannot connect to the internet and I get a page cannot be displayed.

This is what i get in terminal
ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib32/libpangohack.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
esd: no process killed
ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib32/libpangohack.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib32/libpangohack.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib32/libpangohack.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib32/libpangohack.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib32/libpangohack.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib32/libpangohack.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib32/libpangohack.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.

(firefox-bin:10132): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
Using the fallback 'C' locale.

(firefox-bin:10132): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
Using the fallback 'C' locale.


Anyone know if those might be the reasons?

[gearshifter]

I started looking up those errors and none of them have to do with the reason firefox32 isnt loading webpages.


Oh, and the error is not Page cannot be displayed, its "Server not found".

And keep in mind the 64bit firefox is what im using now and it's working fine.

[radinator]

I used these directions to setup firefox2 with the plugins. Everything worked for the most part, with one problem.

I had previously set things up to share my firefox and thunderbird profiles and email folders with windows XP on a fat32 partition, so that any updates/changes would be available no matter which OS I was using. This previous setup worked for months with no problem. However, I didn't have flash or java.

After running the install script to get firefox2, I now have a problem. Running firefox2 makes that shared partition (the whole partition) read-only. This means that new mail can no longer be downloaded, old mail cannot be deleted, etc.. Once I kill the firefox2 process, the partition is still read-only. So I still can't read mail, nor can I touch a file there. But I also can't restart firefox without a message reporting a security error. The root of the problem is that firefox cannot write to the profile any more (since the partition is now read-only).

If I umount and re-mount the partition, things are fine until the next time I start firefox. Then I have to unmount and remount the partition again.

I'm aware of firefox lock files in the profile, but what is the problem that would cause firefox to set the entire partition to read-only?

If it matters: AMD64 X2 system running Dapper Drake.

Thanks,
Ray

[Kilz]

Alright, since the orginal firefox32 install i did wasn't working on Feisty, i decided to give this a run on the new Development version just for kicks.

Well, Everything ran GREAT, but everytime i run the firefox32 app it cannot connect to the internet and I get a page cannot be displayed.

This is what i get in terminal
ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib32/libpangohack.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
esd: no process killed
ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib32/libpangohack.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib32/libpangohack.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib32/libpangohack.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib32/libpangohack.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib32/libpangohack.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib32/libpangohack.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib32/libpangohack.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.

(firefox-bin:10132): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
Using the fallback 'C' locale.

(firefox-bin:10132): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
Using the fallback 'C' locale.


Anyone know if those might be the reasons?

It means "ignore me" Its saying the lib cant be preloaded. As for not connecting, it looks like an upgrade has broken something. Are you using Edgy?

[Kilz]

I used these directions to setup firefox2 with the plugins. Everything worked for the most part, with one problem.

I had previously set things up to share my firefox and thunderbird profiles and email folders with windows XP on a fat32 partition, so that any updates/changes would be available no matter which OS I was using. This previous setup worked for months with no problem. However, I didn't have flash or java.

After running the install script to get firefox2, I now have a problem. Running firefox2 makes that shared partition (the whole partition) read-only. This means that new mail can no longer be downloaded, old mail cannot be deleted, etc.. Once I kill the firefox2 process, the partition is still read-only. So I still can't read mail, nor can I touch a file there. But I also can't restart firefox without a message reporting a security error. The root of the problem is that firefox cannot write to the profile any more (since the partition is now read-only).

If I umount and re-mount the partition, things are fine until the next time I start firefox. Then I have to unmount and remount the partition again.

I'm aware of firefox lock files in the profile, but what is the problem that would cause firefox to set the entire partition to read-only?

If it matters: AMD64 X2 system running Dapper Drake.

Thanks,
Ray

I have no idea, this is a new one. I have never read about this happening.

[kinson]

Thanks a lot ! ! :D This helped me get firefox 32 and flash9 installed and youtube is working fine now :D

Installed flash 7 first, but there was no sound,and after mucking around with the solutions, it still didn't work :( so I tried flash 9, and so far its working :D Having said that, I think i might have a little bit of what people are reporting that the sound might be a little out of sync(just a half sec), but I can bear with that for the time being :p

Cheers,
Kinson

[Azakus]

This thread helped me get off of Swiftfox and into IceWeasel instead. Thanks!
{Update}
Seems that you can get mplayer to work with the plugin if you install the 64-bit mplayer-nogui package. It worked for me anyway. Good luck!

[PgR]

Hi Kilz,

Thanks for the script - I'd pretty much given up hope of Firefox running on amd64 ubuntu.

I'm getting the same errors as ceedub; vis:

(firefox-bin:9242): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
Using the fallback 'C' locale.

(firefox-bin:9242): Gtk-WARNING **: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libqtengine.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64

(firefox-bin:9242): Gtk-WARNING **: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libqtengine.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64

Google's drawn a blank. Any idea where I can start looking?

[TWFJR]

I've ran into a problem not being able to find '.macromedia." Here are the steps that I have taken:

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs lib32asound2 lib32ncurses5 ia32-libs-sdl ia32-libs-gtk gsfonts gsfonts-x11 linux32

Download the Firefox32 .deb file. and the ia32-lib-firefox-amd64 packages save them to your desktiop.
Doubble click on ia32-lib-firefox and let Gedebi install it first then do the same with the firefox deb.


Flash 7
We are going to be installing the Macromedia Flash Player from adobe. It is a restricted format because it isn't free as in freedom software. It is however free as in beer.
First off Download the Macromedia Flash Player and move it to your desktop if your files download to another directory.

We will now untar and install Macromedia Flash
Code:
cd ~/Desktop
tar -xzvf install_flash_player_7_linux.tar.gz
sudo linux32 ./install_flash_player_7_linux/flashplayer-installer

tom@tom-desktop:/usr/lib32$ sudo linux32 ./install_flash_player_7_linux/flashplayer-installer

Copyright(C) 2002-2003 Macromedia, Inc. All rights reserved.

Macromedia Flash Player 7 for Linux

Macromedia Flash Player 7 will be installed on this machine.

You are running the Macromedia Flash Player installer as the "root" user.
Macromedia Flash Player 7 will be installed system-wide.

Support is available at http://www.macromedia.com/support/flashplayer/

To install Macromedia Flash Player 7 now, press ENTER.

To cancel the installation at any time, press Control-C.



NOTE: Macromedia Flash Player requires two font packages
to be installed, gsfonts and gsfonts-x11.

Press ENTER to continue...



NOTE: Please exit any browsers you may have running.

Press ENTER to continue...



Please enter the installation path of the Mozilla, Netscape,
or Opera browser (i.e., /usr/lib/mozilla): /usr/lib32/firefox32/

WARNING: An older version of the Macromedia Flash Player has been detected in
/usr/lib32/firefox32//plugins.
The installer will overwrite this existing binary.



----------- Install Action Summary -----------

Macromedia Flash Player 7 will be installed in the following directory:

Browser installation directory = /usr/lib32/firefox32/

Proceed with the installation? (y/n/q): y

Installation complete.


Perform another installation? (y/n): n


Please log out of this session and log in for the changes to take effect.


The Macromedia Flash Player installation is complete.




Hit enter again when it asks you if you want to install or quit.
The installer will ask you to make sure 2 fonts are installed. We did that along with some other packages as the first step of this howto so hit enter.
It will ask you to close all browsers, and then what location it wants you to install to. Type in "/usr/lib32/firefox32/".
Type yes to proceed with the installation, then n if you want to perform another install.
Finally to make sure sound works with flash use this command, make sure to change <username> to your username.
Code:
chown -R <username>:users /home/<username>/.macromedia


tom@tom-desktop:/usr/lib32$ chown -R tom:users /home/tom/.macromediachown: cannot access `/home/tom/.macromedia': No such file or directory

[William Pickett]

Hi- when I did the ls /usr/mplayer it showed mplayer, mplayer32 and mplayer64- but did not show file with the -al command- is this where my conflict lies? I am unable to update open office- E: /var/cache/apt/archives/ia32-libs-openoffice.org_17_amd64.deb trying to overwrite '/usr/lib32/lib/20.so-1.0.0' in package mplayer32.

Thanks in advance, I just upgraded amd64_generic from Dapper to Edgy.

William](*,)

[Unterseeboot_234]

I guess I did a combination of the script and manual install. When the script took me to the Adobe GERMAN website for the flash, I abandoned that install effort and started with the instructions for the manual HowTo. I definitely want everything English on my system. Everything worked great. I have a clean install of Drake 64 and I want to make this browser correct before doing a deep backup.

I log off happy. The next day is when I begin to wonder.

On boot, after username/password -- ubuntu tells me the home folder will be ignored, even though I give it the correct username and password.

I've read every post on this thread. There is one brief mention about the "owner" in user/local/firefox32/plugins

one folder up -- firefox says I'm the owner
plugins folder -- symlink to /usr/lib32/firefox32/plugins
lib32/firefox32/plugins -- Owner and Group Owner is root for all the plugins this HowTo explains about except for the java. I'm the owner for java plug-in.
From the Permissions Tab for flash, mPlayer....
Text view: -rwxr-xr-x
Number view: 1200755

I'd like to change the owner to my user account to see if this fixes the logon problem. I don't know what all I need to change. The Group? The Owner?

Thanks in advance.

============
Nevermind. I banged around in the forums. Found out I could reveal hidden files, look at the permissions tab for my User Folder and User /.dmrc and just click the checkmarks. Folder is now 744 and ./dmrc is 644. I boot normal. Great! I like this browser setup better than the Automatix2 Swiftfox because the Firefox32 is upgradeable. It does run slower than the Swiftfox and maybe the preferences in the Firefox32 will fine tune that. Thank you!!!

[theasylm]

EDIT: Please ignore the request. I was having problems with my wireless and didn't know it (since everything else worked). Got the file while hard-wired.

Could someone host the script and the deb files somewhere else please? My connection to the comcast server keeps getting reset, so I can't even start the process.

Thanks.

[fokuslee]

Hi i followed the guide verbatim and got firefox32 2.0 to work with flash plugin
and java i will try other things later. Just Wanna SAY THANKS. tears in my eyes. Flash in 64 bit was always causing me trouble
great guide.
oh u mite want to update the link for firefox in your Manual Install method. It still linked to firefox 1.5
anyways thx thx

[Gumper]

I used this howto and it installed ff version 1.5. At least now i finally have flash working. I tried several things to get it to work with the amd64 version of ff 2.0 but no luck...

I was wondering why the howto installed ff 1.5? Is it possible to upgrade to 2.0?

Thanks for the great howto.

Gumper

Edit: Never mind. I figured it out.

[fokuslee]

hey firefox rolled out with an update can i safely update my 32bit firefox on 64bit machine?
can i just click the install updates within 32bit firefox?
if not can you update our 32bit deb when u have time thx a bunch

[leona]

Was just about to ask the same thing, my 64bit firefox is 1.5.0.9 but my 32bit is 1.5.0.7 I can download a 32bit 1.5.0.9 from Moz but its a tar.gz. I don't know how to convert that to .deb. So now my firefoxs' are out of sync.

[fokuslee]

leona for u there is a 2.0 version on the first page its the link in the auto install method
hover ur mouse over it the bottom of ff2 should say itz a ff2 32bit
but yeah itz the 2.0 version not the 2.0.0.1

[leona]

Arr ya, but I can't install the 64bit version of 2.0 so then they would be way out of sync, I'd like to either have them both on 2.0 or 1.5 and keep the versions in sync, otherwise when the start up they complain about being older versions and wanted to update and all that, if that makes any sense?

[Aphorism]

Alright, since the orginal firefox32 install i did wasn't working on Feisty, i decided to give this a run on the new Development version just for kicks.

Well, Everything ran GREAT, but everytime i run the firefox32 app it cannot connect to the internet and I get a page cannot be displayed.

(firefox-bin:10132): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
Using the fallback 'C' locale.

(firefox-bin:10132): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
Using the fallback 'C' locale.
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Anyone know if those might be the reasons?

Same here. Any progress on this Gearshifter?

I don't get your pango errors however. It was working fine in Edgy, but the bump to Feisty seems to have stalled something.

[ronison1]

I'm getting java applet errors on my bank's login page (https://www2.bancobrasil.com.br/aapf/aai/login.pbk) ](*,)