Howto : Installing Flash on Ubuntu Dapper or Edgy for x86_64

[pvalois]

Fetching the prerequisites

Get the Mandrake nspluginwrapper packages

http://gwenole.beauchesne.info/proje...3-1.x86_64.rpm
http://gwenole.beauchesne.info/proje...3-1.x86_64.rpm

Get Flash 9 from Adobe

http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/downl...ShockwaveFlash

Unpack the installer, and locate the libflashplayer.so file

Install the 32 bit wrapper (linux32) and the package conversion tool (alien)

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

Proceding with the installation for gnome browsers

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/x86_64/npconfig /usr/bin/nspluginwrapper sudo alien -d nspluginwrapper*.rpm sudo dpkg -i nspluginwrapper*.deb sudo mkdir /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins32 sudo cp {path to}/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins32 sudo nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins32/libflashplayer.so

Making the plugin available for Firefox

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.so /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/

WHY ...
Unless some other tutorials you can read on the net, i made a special directory for the 32 bits plugins, because even if it doesn't make firefox explode, the fact that the 32bits plugin is in a directory checked on firefox startup raise and error telling that this plugin can't be loaded.

You can see it by lauching firefox from a terminal.

[pvalois]

Appendix :

For those who don't understant i use a link in the /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins instead of installing the wrapper directly for Firefox (some pleople don't use Epiphany, and don't care about flash working for it), here is why :

nspluginwrapper force the nswrapper-libflashplayer.so to be created in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins when you run "nspluginwrapper -i".

so then, the only way you have left, is linking the new created plugin wrapper to make it available for Firefox

[Kilz]

Alternatly you could install the 32bit Firefox, Flock, or Iceweasel by the howto\script in my signature and then just copy in the flash plugin file.

[pvalois]

well in fact, the point is more to get flash working with 64 bits browsers than to simply have flash.

and i made this howto seeing people always asking for some details about how the other succedeed installing it with barefoots.

plus the little "plugin32" detail of course.

[Kilz]

Originally Posted by pvalois well in fact, the point is more to get flash working with 64 bits browsers than to simply have flash. and i made this howto seeing people always asking for some details about how the other succedeed installing it with barefoots. plus the little "plugin32" detail of course.

Thats great, I'm glad that someone is working on getting the nspluginwrapper working. From what I have read though, it still is in beta. Is it still crashing the browser on some sites?

[pvalois]

i never crashed badly.
the main problem i encountered is nspluginviewer taking up to 100% cpu, and when i kill it, it became zombie.

as a zombie, he still goes nuts, and i need to terminate the browser to get the zombie leave.

it still happens not that often.

[greyghostx]

This is for flash player on 64bit firefox browser right?

what's this mean

Netscape 4 Plugins Wrapper

File name: /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/x86_64/npwrapper.so
nspluginwrapper 0.9.90.3 adds support for i386 compiled Netscape 4 plugins.
This is beta software available under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
unknown/mime-type Do not open none Yes

[forteller]

Hi, sorry, I'm a totall neewb on Linux, so what am I supposed to do with those two .rpm-files? I get an error when I try to open them in the package manager. Should I just unzip them? where?

[gmike]

i got package not supported error, am i missing something?

[balaram]

I tried the instructions on this post yesterday and I couldn't get it to work either. Then I found this address
http/www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1174435
and I followed the instructions to the letter and it worked. Be exact; I did it wrong the first time but on the second try I was successful. Read every step, although you probably won't need to do everything they talk about. First time around I overlooked the section about installing the 32-bit version of Firefox onto 64-bit Edgy and of course it failed to work.