flashplayer on debian-amd64 (sid)
Dear maintainers, I tested some flash plugins onm my amd64 system. According to this, I found out, flashplugin-nonfree either from sid or experimental is not working. This is because it is using nspluginwrapper and the 32-bit version of flashplayer10. I have found out a better solution. Two opportunities: --- First solution: 1. install flashplugin-nonfree from sid. 2. download 64-bit alpha version of flashplayer from the Adobe site. 3. unpack the tar.gz and copy the file libplayerflash.so to /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/ Second solution (the recommended one): 1. Do NOT install flashplugin-nonfree (as you do NOT need nspluginwrapper!) 2. download 64-bit alpaversion as above. 3. unpack the tar.gz and copy the file libplayerflash.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins (so it will be found) This works perfectly for me in Iceweasel and Opera. Konqueror seems to be able to use it, too, but it does somehwo interfere with other plugins (maybe gnash?). I still could not find out, why it is sometimes working and sometimes not. I recommend and like to ask the package maintainers, to build the package flashplugin-nonfree in that way, that it: 1. downloads the 64-bit version of flashplayer 2. nspluginwrapper is no more installed. Please try it out for yourself, it works perfectly for me. Cheers Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: flashplayer on debian-amd64 (sid)
2008/12/13 Hans-J. Ullrich hans.ullr...@loop.de: Dear maintainers, I tested some flash plugins onm my amd64 system. According to this, I found out, flashplugin-nonfree either from sid or experimental is not working. This is because it is using nspluginwrapper and the 32-bit version of flashplayer10. I have found out a better solution. Two opportunities: --- First solution: 1. install flashplugin-nonfree from sid. 2. download 64-bit alpha version of flashplayer from the Adobe site. 3. unpack the tar.gz and copy the file libplayerflash.so to /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/ Second solution (the recommended one): 1. Do NOT install flashplugin-nonfree (as you do NOT need nspluginwrapper!) 2. download 64-bit alpaversion as above. 3. unpack the tar.gz and copy the file libplayerflash.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins (so it will be found) This works perfectly for me in Iceweasel and Opera. Konqueror seems to be able to use it, too, but it does somehwo interfere with other plugins (maybe gnash?). I still could not find out, why it is sometimes working and sometimes not. I recommend and like to ask the package maintainers, to build the package flashplugin-nonfree in that way, that it: 1. downloads the 64-bit version of flashplayer 2. nspluginwrapper is no more installed. Please try it out for yourself, it works perfectly for me. Cheers Hans Second solution worked like a charm, both iceweasel and opera. No luck with konqueror. Anybody had luck to use java on a amd64 browser? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: flashplayer on debian-amd64 (sid)
On 12/13/2008 01:33 PM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: [...] Second solution (the recommended one): 1. Do NOT install flashplugin-nonfree (as you do NOT need nspluginwrapper!) 2. download 64-bit alpaversion as above. 3. unpack the tar.gz and copy the file libplayerflash.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins (so it will be found) This works perfectly for me in Iceweasel and Opera. Konqueror seems to be able to use it, too, but it does somehwo interfere with other plugins (maybe gnash?). I still could not find out, why it is sometimes working and sometimes not. [...] Right, second solution works here as well. (just tried iceweasel, not the others) HTH. mfv -- Matteo F. Vescovi System Administrator Studio Vescovi Progettazioni GPG Fingerprint: 8EF0 F019 80D1 96BF C9C6 387E D6DE 031F 991F 9D2D -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: flashplayer on debian-amd64 (sid)
Dear maintainers, I tested some flash plugins onm my amd64 system. According to this, I found out, flashplugin-nonfree either from sid or experimental is not working. This is because it is using nspluginwrapper and the 32-bit version of flashplayer10. I have found out a better solution. Two opportunities: [snip] For those interested in a more Debianly-correct solution, I will share my latest experience from yesterday, after trying to get the 64-bit Flash plugin working using 'flashplugin-nonfree' from the experimental repositories: First, I began having problems with Flash this Fall with the 1.7.x series of 'flashplugin-nonfree'. The maintainer of the package, Bart Martens, realized that it was a violation of Debian policy for the installer scripts to touch anything in the Debian alternatives system when installing the plugin, and removed the script code that sets the 'flash-mozilla.so' link in /etc/alternatives to auto mode if it (for any reason) gets set to manual. When I installed versions of 'flashplugin-nonfree' in the 1.7.x series, Flash was broken. I was holding the package at 1.6.3 for a long time until I found some time to do some reading on the bug tracking system -- where I found out about the issue with the Debian alternatives system. Sure enough, something had set 'flash-mozilla.so' to manual on my system, and updates of the Flash plugin in 1.7.x were not being recognized after being installed because of that. The alternatives system _was_ properly indicating that the newly-installed version was the preferred version, but the manual status was keeping the links from being updated to the new version. (Current status can be checked by running 'update-alternatives --display flash-mozilla.so'.) The fix was to run 'update-alternatives --auto flash-mozilla.so'. After that, Flash was working fine for me again. Yesterday, I installed the experimental version of 'flashplugin-nonfree', version 2 (actually 1:2, with the epoch prefixed) -- which uses the 64-bit beta from Adobe's website, and has NO dependency on 'nspluginwrapper' -- to see if it would work for me. After installing it, I had no Flash support at all... and the Iceweasel Tools-Add-ons-Plugins menu confirmed that with no listing for Shockwave Flash. I had taken notes on my problems describe above during the Fall, and re-read those notes. After investigating the dates of 'libflashplayer.so' in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree, I realized that cruft was left behind on my system because not all of these files end up getting tracked properly by the Debian packaging system when stuff from Adobe gets installed in the filesystem. Furthermore, the alternatives link to 'flash-mozilla.so' was set to manual again, but the alternatives system was correctly identifying the new, version 2, Flash player as the preferred version. Simply running update-alternatives --auto flash-mozilla.so was enough to allow Iceweasel to use the new Flash player, and it is working great for me! This really needs to be documented somewhere -- nothing relevant appears in /usr/share/doc/flashplugin-nonfree, though the changelog includes some hints -- and I would argue that the debconf system could be used to ask for user input if the 'flash-mozilla.so' link in the alternatives is set to manual. The sort of grief demonstrated by the post to which I am responding could be lessened or avoided entirely with a little helpful information! Hope that helps someone, Dave W. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Java on amd64 (was: Re: flashplayer on debian-amd64 (sid))
Hi, Ivan Marin wrote: [ fullquote snipped. please quote sanely. thanks. ] Second solution worked like a charm, both iceweasel and opera. No luck with konqueror. Anybody had luck to use java on a amd64 browser? Yes. icedtea6-plugin from experimental. (You might need to fix the symlink/alternatives youself ] Grüße/Regards, René -- .''`. René Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org | http://people.debian.org/~rene/ `. `' r...@debian.org | GnuPG-Key ID: 248AEB73 `- Fingerprint: 41FA F208 28D4 7CA5 19BB 7AD9 F859 90B0 248A EB73 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: flashplayer on debian-amd64 (sid)
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 01:33:26PM +0100 Hans-J. Ullrich said: Dear maintainers, I tested some flash plugins onm my amd64 system. snip The 64-bit alpha plugin from Adobe works on both IceWeasel and Epiphany for me. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com There are no good system administrators, merely temporarily satisfied users. My PGP key: http://www.gnubies.com/encryption/sign.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
