Found something: nspluginwrapper Firefox 64 with flash, java etc and no Chroot!

[dmb]

Hey, while playing around with some old macintosh emulators, I came across a developers website who is developing a program/plugin that lets your run 32 bit plugins on a 64 bit compiled firefox. This is looking quite interestg.

Anyone want to say if this works or not?

Its called nspluginwrapper, and homepage for it is here: http://www.gibix.net/dokuwiki/en:raz...spluginwrapper

[CDN MILLWRIGHT32]

Dead link!

[mikeyrb]

http://www.gibix.net/dokuwiki/en:pro...spluginwrapper

I tried getting it to work, but I had no luck. As far as I could tell, I had no executable called "nspluginwrapper." I used Alien to convert the rpm's to debs. Whatever the source file is for, it wouldn't "make install."

[mikeyrb]

It actually works now, for some plugins! Before I was only trying to get the rhapsody plugin to work, but this time I tried the flash plugin, which worked.

Instructions to install:

1) Download the Plugin and the Viewer from http://www.gibix.net/dokuwiki/en:pro...spluginwrapper
2) Install Alien, if not already installed.
3) Convert the downloaded rpm's to deb's (sudo alien -d *.rpm)
4) Install the newly created debs (Install in this order: sudo dpkg -i nspluginwrapper-i386_0.9.90-2_amd64.deb, sudo dpkg -i nspluginwrapper_0.9.90-2_amd64.deb) -- If I got the order wrong, you'll know because it won't install.
5) Download the plugin you want to install, and extract the .so file. For example, to install flash, grab the tar.gz file from Macromedia's website, and extract libflashplayer.so.
6) Move the plugin (example, libflashplayer.so) to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. This is where nspluginwrapper stores the main plugin, so it's probably a nice folder to keep them.
7) Now we need nsplugwrapper to make the new plugin, so call: /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/x86_64/npconfig -i /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so (if wanting the flash plugin, of course). Depending on whether or not you run that command with sudo, it will either end up in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins, or ~/.mozilla/plugins. If you ran it as sudo, you'll need to link it to either your profile's plugins or the main plugins (/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins). Or copy, doesn't matter. The old plugin must not move, as it's path seems to become hard coded in the new plugin created (which has "npwrapper-" prepended to the old name).

I had one issue where the npviewer.bin executable did not quit with firefox, so firefox couldn't load my profile again until I killed npviewer, but I'm not sure how I caused that. It happened another time, but I didn't see npviewer as active, so I had to logout. Macromedia flash worked, but the menu text didn't exactly show up for Google Videos, or the flash settings, though the main flash menu worked.

Oh, and if anyone gets the rhapsody plugin working for x64, let me know!

[mikeyrb]

I was able to fix fonts with the help of this page: FirefoxAMD64FlashJava

apt-get install gsfonts
apt-get install gsfonts-x11

Also, I discovered it's probably better to not include "-c" with alien, as it then doesn't complete install and keeps coming up during use of synaptic. That change has been updated above.

[Rkey]

Sorry, my message is not relevant anymore...

[ravpaul]

Nothing short of genius!!! No need to go to 32bit applications again!!!

[lnxconvrt]

Excellent!

Nice how-to, mikeyrb. Thanks!

[jairo.serrano]

Originally Posted by mikeyrb It actually works now, for some plugins! Before I was only trying to get the rhapsody plugin to work, but this time I tried the flash plugin, which worked.

WOW men!

flash work on my native firefox!!!

WOW!

y prey to have 100% stability...

[superm1]

I used to have this working, and tried to reinstall using the version from 6/11/06. It seems to have stopped actually working right however, and doesn't even show the plugins in aboutlugins.