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

[Kilz]

I have just uploaded the newest script , firefox 2.0.0.8 and Swiftweasel 2.0.0.8. Those that are running 2.0.0.7 are urged to upgrade as there is a ton of fixes in 2.0.0.8.

[Rui Pais]

I have just uploaded the newest script , firefox 2.0.0.8 and Swiftweasel 2.0.0.8. Those that are running 2.0.0.7 are urged to upgrade as there is a ton of fixes in 2.0.0.8.

Hi,
a few problems.
I had to manually install swiftweasel, because for some reason it downloads but dpkg failed complaining about inexistent directory of swiftweasel32.

Then script output the failure of linux32 deb package. Thats a conflicting one under Gutsy, and to install it it requires the removal of the essential util-linux.

Theres a minor typo on line 45: "Install option (1-3)?" should be now "Install option (1-4)?"

[Rui Pais]

Hi,
a few problems.
I had to manually install swiftweasel, because for some reason it downloads but dpkg failed complaining about inexistent directory of swiftweasel32.

Then script output the failure of linux32 deb package. Thats a conflicting one under Gutsy, and to install it it requires the removal of the essential util-linux.

Theres a minor typo on line 45: "Install option (1-3)?" should be now "Install option (1-4)?"

EDIT: Another bug:
swintel and swamd variables are defined as ...ubuntu_6.04-7.04_AMD64.deb
and after choose Gutsy that's not changed! But script at Gutsy downloads the correct version, but then the dpkg command fails because it uses the wrong defined variable.

(sorry about the double post, i press quote button instead of edit, and only after committed i realized that)


Here a patch for make it compatible with Gutsy:

45c45
<  echo -n "Install option (1-3)? : "
---
>  echo -n "Install option (1-4)? : "
721a722
> swintel=swiftweasel32-2.0.0.8_nocona-32bit_ubuntu-AMD64.deb
730a732
> swamd=swiftweasel32-2.0.0.8_athlon64-32bit_ubuntu-AMD64.deb
780,781c782,783
< sudo wget -c http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/l/linux32/linux32_1-3_amd64.deb
< sudo dpkg -i /tmp/ff32/linux32_1-3_amd64.deb
---
> #sudo wget -c http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/l/linux32/linux32_1-3_amd64.deb
> #sudo dpkg -i /tmp/ff32/linux32_1-3_amd64.deb

[malinkb]

I have upgraded from Festy Fawn 7.04 to Gitsy Gibbon 7.10 and had to install the latest browser script again and now I can't get the mplayer to work. It buffer/download the video. When that happens there is just a gray picture with the mozilla-firefox mplayer plugin logo and the text stopped on it.

Is there anyway I can fix this?


The browserscriptversion i used is: ff32-3in1-6.1.tar.gz

the output from my ls -al /usr/lib32/firefox32/plugins is:

ls -al /usr/lib32/firefox32/plugins
total 14152
drwxr-xr-x 2 malin users 4096 2007-10-28 13:24 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 malin users 4096 2007-10-28 13:19 ..
-r--r--r-- 1 1003 users 856 2007-06-20 02:31 flashplayer.xpt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 1003 users 8098568 2007-09-27 10:41 libflashplayer.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 78 2007-10-28 13:24 libjavaplugin_oji.so -> /usr/lib/jvm/ia32-java-6-sun-1.6.0.03/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 malin malin 92448 2006-09-19 15:39 libnpp.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 malin malin 19496 2006-09-10 04:41 libnullplugin.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 282528 2007-10-28 13:24 mplayerplug-in-dvx.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1021 2007-10-28 13:24 mplayerplug-in-dvx.xpt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 282720 2007-10-28 13:24 mplayerplug-in-qt.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1021 2007-10-28 13:24 mplayerplug-in-qt.xpt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 282784 2007-10-28 13:24 mplayerplug-in-rm.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1021 2007-10-28 13:24 mplayerplug-in-rm.xpt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 285084 2007-10-28 13:24 mplayerplug-in.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 283040 2007-10-28 13:24 mplayerplug-in-wmp.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1021 2007-10-28 13:24 mplayerplug-in-wmp.xpt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1021 2007-10-28 13:24 mplayerplug-in.xpt
-rw-r--r-- 1 malin users 4759307 2007-01-05 20:56 nppdf.so

and from /ls -al /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins is:

ls -al /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-10-28 02:47 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-04-18 05:26 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 50 2007-09-06 19:55 nppdf.so -> ../../Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so

[Fraoch]

I ran the new script in Gutsy, should I be concerned about this error?

Selecting previously deselected package linux32.
dpkg: regarding .../tmp/ff32/linux32_1-3_amd64.deb containing linux32:
 util-linux conflicts with linux32
  linux32 (version 1-3) is to be installed.
dpkg: error processing /tmp/ff32/linux32_1-3_amd64.deb (--install):
 conflicting packages - not installing linux32
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /tmp/ff32/linux32_1-3_amd64.deb

Yup, something's wrong, neither Firefox nor Swiftweasel will install. Both are missing "ia32-libs-gtk" - that package is no longer included, supported or even available for Gutsy.

[Rui Pais]

I ran the new script in Gutsy, should I be concerned about this error?

Selecting previously deselected package linux32.
dpkg: regarding .../tmp/ff32/linux32_1-3_amd64.deb containing linux32:
 util-linux conflicts with linux32
  linux32 (version 1-3) is to be installed.
dpkg: error processing /tmp/ff32/linux32_1-3_amd64.deb (--install):
 conflicting packages - not installing linux32
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /tmp/ff32/linux32_1-3_amd64.deb

Don't try to install that package under Gutsy. It conflicts with util-linux (that already contains linux32). Note that util-linux it's an 'Essential' package. You will broke yor system if you remove or replace. See my comments on bugs to the script on Gutsy 2 posts above.
Kilz needs to update his script.

[Kilz]

Im working on it.

[Fraoch]

Thanks Kilz!

[Rui Pais]

yep, thanks Kilz.

I definitely give up 64b flash on gutsy. To unstable. It crashes at least twice a day, leaving a black ghost mini window when close browser...

Theres seems to be a naughty bug too on swiftweasel 2.0.0.8.
Only installer user can run it. Any other user, on sudoers list or not, can't launch it, unless they run with sudo

I spend part of the afternoon trying to catch this one... the file run-mozilla.sh has incorrect mod (at least different from 2.0.0.7) and seems to be a problem with one of the .so files (on path but not detected by swiftwesel32...)

[go_beep_yourself]

Java
We will be installing Sun's Java. The only version we have to use is Java 6. I personaly dont like java 6 as it seems buggy to me. But if you must, here is how to install it. Be aware that I will not be offering support for java 6 installs at this time.
First we need to get Java On that page download the "Linux (self-extracting file)" package. You do not want the 64 bit package. You may have to edit the commands below if the file name has changed.
First, If you are upgrading an already existing install

sudo rm -rfd /usr/lib32/java32

Then you can start the install.

cd ~/Desktop
sudo bash
chmod 777 ./jre-6u2-linux-i586.bin
./jre-6u2-linux-i586.bin

You will have to agree to the EULA, then it will extract to your desktop.
We will now install it

mkdir /usr/local/java32
cp -r -p ./jre1.6.0_02/* /usr/local/java32
cd /usr/lib32/firefox32/plugins/
ln -s /usr/local/java32/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so ./

Restart Firefox and go HERE to test Java.
If your browser locks up/crashes verifying this will fix it. Change <username> to your username.

 sudo chown -R <username>:users /home/<username>/.java
sudo chown -R <username>:users /usr/lib32/firefox32/plugins/

Is this needed? Can the ia32-sun-java6-bin or sun-java6-jre be used intead?