The one that worked for you is probably the same one that worked for me, did that tutorial tell you to remove the last line from a file by any chance?
~Daniel On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Simos Xenitellis < simos.li...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 7:19 PM, A J Binnie <gus.bin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Simos, > > Thanks for your reply. > > > > On 26 April 2010 16:27, Simos Xenitellis <simos.li...@googlemail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> Verify what you have at the moment, at 'about:plugins'. > >> With the latest 64-bit Flash from > >> http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/64bit.html > >> (follow link for 64-bit Linux version), you should have “Shockwave > >> Flash 10.0 r45”. > > > > Checked about:plugins in Firefox and Chromium and they both show up with > the > > correct version. > > > >> > >> You would normally dump libflashplayer.so in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ > >> and Firefox will pick it up automatically when you restart it. That is, > >> sudo mv libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so > > > > Yup. I copied it to that location and did a search to see where else it > > might be. It came up with: > > /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer, and > > /opt/Adobe AIR/Versions/1.0/Resources > >> > >> To verify whether a random 'libflashplayer.so' is 32 or 64 bit, run > >> ldd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so > >> > >> If it is 64-bit, it should show /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 > > This should be lots of output and a single line should be that one above. > You can use the command > ldd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so | grep lib64 > > which filters and shows you only any lines that have the 'lib64' string in > them. > > >> If it is 32-bit, it should show many references to 'lib32'. > > > > I got a page full of gobbledegook, so I'm assuming it's the latter > > situation! The frustrating thing is that I've copied the new file to all > the > > locations that came up in the search. > > There is also a file called npwrapper.libflash.so, with various links to > it > > - I'm thinking this might have something to do with it, but I'm not > sure. If > > I decide to completely remove all flash-related stuff and start from > > scratch, is it safe to delete all these files? > > Everything worked out of the box with 32-bit versions, but 64-bit is > doing > > my head in. Never let it be said that I don't like a challenge!!! > > The proper way to remove the 32-bit flash is to remove the package > with "sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-nonfree". Some more tips at > http://simos.info/blog/archives/804 > > Hope this helps, > Simos > > -- > A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion > Q. Why is top posting bad? > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > -- ~Daniel
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