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

[Seryozha]

ok.. So i FINALLY get sound with flash 9. I close the browser and re open and my flash is reverted back to flash 7 and i have no sound. I reinstall flash 9 and it works again... of course only till i close my browser. What gives?

[Angafirith]

ok.. So i FINALLY get sound with flash 9. I close the browser and re open and my flash is reverted back to flash 7 and i have no sound. I reinstall flash 9 and it works again... of course only till i close my browser. What gives?

Try using the command "firefox32" from the command line. If your launchers are set to run "firefox", it will probably still run the 64-bit version.

[psi36]

I try to run the installer, but it doesn't except /usr/lib32/firefox32/ as installation path:

$ sudo linux32 ./install_flash_player_9_linux/flashplayer-installer

Copyright(C) 2002-2006 Adobe Macromedia Software LLC.  All rights reserved.

Adobe Flash Player 9 for Linux

Adobe Flash Player 9 will be installed on this machine.

You are running the Adobe Flash Player installer as the "root" user.
Adobe Flash Player 9 will be installed system-wide.

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

To install Adobe Flash Player 9 now, press ENTER.

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



NOTE: Please exit any browsers you may have running.

Press ENTER to continue...



Please enter the installation path of the Mozilla, SeaMonkey,
or Firefox browser (i.e., /usr/lib/mozilla):  /usr/lib32/firefox32/
dir= /usr/lib32/firefox32/

WARNING: Please enter a valid installation path.

Please enter the installation path of the Mozilla, SeaMonkey,
or Firefox browser (i.e., /usr/lib/mozilla):

I haven't found anyone else with the same problem. Anyone have any suggestions?

[Seryozha]

I try to run the installer, but it doesn't except /usr/lib32/firefox32/ as installation path:

$ sudo linux32 ./install_flash_player_9_linux/flashplayer-installer

Copyright(C) 2002-2006 Adobe Macromedia Software LLC.  All rights reserved.

Adobe Flash Player 9 for Linux

Adobe Flash Player 9 will be installed on this machine.

You are running the Adobe Flash Player installer as the "root" user.
Adobe Flash Player 9 will be installed system-wide.

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

To install Adobe Flash Player 9 now, press ENTER.

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



NOTE: Please exit any browsers you may have running.

Press ENTER to continue...



Please enter the installation path of the Mozilla, SeaMonkey,
or Firefox browser (i.e., /usr/lib/mozilla):  /usr/lib32/firefox32/
dir= /usr/lib32/firefox32/

WARNING: Please enter a valid installation path.

Please enter the installation path of the Mozilla, SeaMonkey,
or Firefox browser (i.e., /usr/lib/mozilla):

I haven't found anyone else with the same problem. Anyone have any suggestions?

The path is /usr/local/firefox32

[Seryozha]

Try using the command "firefox32" from the command line. If your launchers are set to run "firefox", it will probably still run the 64-bit version.

I ran firefox32 from the terminal and it did load the 64 bit version. Now what?

[Seryozha]

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[Popoi]

Is there a way to put a Firefox traslation package in this installation? My Firefox32 is in english and I want it in spanish.

[Seryozha]

Bumpity

[dfreer]

I also had problems with the Flash installer not accepting the install path. So this is what i did instead

wget http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
sudo tar -xzvf install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
cd /usr/lib32/firefox32/plugins
sudo mv ~/install_flash_player_9_linux/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib32/firefox32/plugins/
sudo mv ~/install_flash_player_9_linux/flashplayer.xpt /usr/lib32/firefox32/plugins/

I also was able to get mplayer plugin working in Firefox32, although I did it a couple of days ago and can't *quite* remember all the steps. If anyone would care to try out my solution and let me know if it works for them...


This is pretty much the same as the mplayer-script, just with a few modifications...

mkdir ~/Desktop/install
cd ~/Desktop/install/
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs gsfonts alsa-oss mplayer
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs-gtk lib32asound2 lib32ncurses5 ia32-libs-sdl
sudo wget -c http://ubuntu.mirrors.tds.net/ubuntu/pool/multiverse/m/mplayerplug-in/mozilla-mplayer_3.17-1ubuntu1_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -x mozilla-mplayer_3.17-1ubuntu1_i386.deb ~/Desktop/install
sudo cp ~/Desktop/install/etc/* /etc
sudo cp ~/Desktop/install/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/* /usr/lib32/firefox32/plugins

sudo chmod a+x /usr/lib32/firefox32/plugins/*.so

wget -c http://folk.ntnu.no/grannas/debs/mplayer32_1.0pre7-1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i mplayer32_1.0pre7-1_amd64.deb
sudo mv /usr/bin/mplayer /usr/bin/mplayer64
sudo mv /usr/bin/mplayer32 /usr/bin/mplayer
wget -c http://www.people.virginia.edu/~drf8f/MPlayer/releases/codecs/essential-20060501.tar.bz2
tar -jxvf essential-20060501.tar.bz2
sudo mkdir /usr/lib/win32
sudo cp essential-20060501/* /usr/lib/win32/
sudo rm -fdr ~/Desktop/install

um i can't remember, but i'm pretty sure i got that essential package somewhere else and already had it installed, so I skipped that step myself. after restarting firefox32, I went to apple's movie trailer site, and I noticed that mplayer would load, start pre-caching the video, but then fail to play it. So i right-clicked in the window, went to configure... noticed that the video output had nothing selected for it. Changed it to xv, i think i might've tweaked a few other settings but that was pretty much it, mplayer works right now!

I do remember fiddling with /usr/bin/gmplayer it seems that this is simple a symbolic link to /usr/bin/mplayer and handles the gui of mplayer in gnome. If you are having problems launching mplayer, simply make sure that after you replace the default mplayer with mplayer32 that this link is still valid.

[Titi]

hi, first of all, a lot of thanks for this script. i think it worked...
but: i have a few questions
after running the script, when i start firefox, everything works fine. Java works, whereas it didn't before. but when i go to "about mozilla firefox", it says " Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); nl; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061208 Firefox/2.0.0.1", while i would expect something with 32 instead of 64. same thing happens when i use "firefox32" in the terminal. so i wonder if i really installed the 32bit version of firefox.
also, when i use the update manager, it says:

Software index is broken

It is impossible to install or remove any software. Please use the package manager "Synaptic" or run "sudo apt-get install -f" in a terminal to fix this issue at first.

when i run the command, it wants to install j2re1.4. should i do this? because everything's working fine now and i'm afraid it might effect something. i don't know.

thing is, i ran the script a few days ago, then i ran the command "sudo apt-get install -f" and today i noticed the java plugins had disappeared. so when i ran the script again, tha plugins were there again. i'm afraid to lose them when i install the j2re1.4.
i'm sorry if my question seems unclear...