Re: [opensuse] Flash success/nspluginwrapper was: How to obtain 32 bit firefox?
----- Original Message ---- From: Joe Morris <Joe_Morris@ntm.org> On 05/29/2008 03:26 AM, Simon Roberts wrote:
Then I reinstalled from Yast, just firefox and flash-plugin-9.0.124.0-release Then I did "rpm -q -filesbypkg flash-plugin-9.0.124.0-release" to determine the name of the actual plugin file (which was reported as /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so) Then I used "nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so" to get the wrapper to notice the 32-bit driver Then I restarted firefox, and it works a treat :) It does seem to be generating some warning messages to stderr, but these don't seem to prevent it from working properly
------ That isn't the way it works normally. Browser plugins are installed to /usr/{_lib}/browser-plugins. So, joe@jmorris:~> rpm -qf /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so flash-player-9.0.124.0-0.1 joe@jmorris:~> rpm -qa | grep flash flash-player-9.0.124.0-0.1 nspluginwrapper automatically installs, I believe via a post-install script, the plugins it finds in the 32 bit location, i.e. /usr/lib/browser-plugins. Since you installed something that did not install in the default location, i.e. a non suse package according to pin, you needed to setup nspluginwrapper manually. If you would have installed the flash-player from the install media (which would have been upgraded via online update), it would have worked out-of-the-box. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Unfortunately, that's not quite true either. It's now lost in a long string of messages, responses, and so forth, but this all started with a completely virgin install of 10.3. Not an upgrade, but completely new install on a fresh partition. It did _not_ work out of the box. After much messing around, trying many things (both reasonable and unreasonable :) I cleaned out a lot of accumulated junk and went back to Yast and those were the packages that came from the OpenSuSE 10.3 repositories. After telling Yast to install the packages, it still did not work, however, when I configured nspluginwrapper by hand, that's how I got it to work. The only thing about my install that wasn't "textbook" was that due to a dying CD/DVD drive, I was forced to install from the 10.3_Gnome CD, rather than using the DVD. Cheers, Simon -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 05/29/2008 07:34 AM, Simon Roberts wrote:
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From: Joe Morris <Joe_Morris@ntm.org>
On 05/29/2008 03:26 AM, Simon Roberts wrote:
Then I reinstalled from Yast, just firefox and flash-plugin-9.0.124.0-release Then I did "rpm -q -filesbypkg flash-plugin-9.0.124.0-release" to determine the name of the actual plugin file (which was reported as /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so) Then I used "nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so" to get the wrapper to notice the 32-bit driver Then I restarted firefox, and it works a treat :) It does seem to be generating some warning messages to stderr, but these don't seem to prevent it from working properly
joe@jmorris:~> rpm -qf /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so flash-player-9.0.124.0-0.1 joe@jmorris:~> rpm -qa | grep flash flash-player-9.0.124.0-0.1
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Unfortunately, that's not quite true either. It's now lost in a long string of messages, responses, and so forth, but this all started with a completely virgin install of 10.3. Not an upgrade, but completely new install on a fresh partition. Where did you get flash-plugin from? I do not see it in any repository.
-- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thu, 29 May 2008 07:49:50 +0800, Joe Morris wrote:
Where did you get flash-plugin from? I do not see it in any repository.
It's in the 10.3 non-OSS repository. Jim -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Jim Henderson wrote:
On Thu, 29 May 2008 07:49:50 +0800, Joe Morris wrote:
Where did you get flash-plugin from? I do not see it in any repository.
It's in the 10.3 non-OSS repository.
Jim
flash-player is in the non-oss repository, not flash-plugin. flash-player installs its plugin in /usr/lib/browser-plugins, not /usr/lib/flash-plugin. I suspect this package came from adobe, and is not best (but can work, but not "out of the box") for opensuse. flash-player from the repository would have worked "out of the box". -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 29 May 2008, Jim Henderson wrote:
On Thu, 29 May 2008 07:49:50 +0800, Joe Morris wrote:
Where did you get flash-plugin from? I do not see it in any repository.
It's in the 10.3 non-OSS repository.
Jim
Do yourself a favour lookup Seamonkey install the 32bit version of that and install your plugins in /usr/local/seamonkey/plugins bingo end to all this crap and sillyness works every time all works a treat here on this 64 bit box running 32 bit Seamonkey in /usr/local/seamonkey version 1.1.9 save youe self some hassle Pete .. -- SuSE Linux 10.3-Alpha3. (Linux is like a wigwam - no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside.) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 29.05.2008 at 10:05, peter nikolic <p.nikolic1@btinternet.com> wrote: On Thursday 29 May 2008, Jim Henderson wrote: On Thu, 29 May 2008 07:49:50 +0800, Joe Morris wrote: Where did you get flash-plugin from? I do not see it in any repository.
It's in the 10.3 non-OSS repository.
Jim
Do yourself a favour lookup Seamonkey install the 32bit version of that and install your plugins in /usr/local/seamonkey/plugins bingo end to all this crap and sillyness works every time all works a treat here on this 64 bit box running 32 bit Seamonkey in /usr/local/seamonkey version 1.1.9 save youe self some hassle
Pete, whereas this might be true for Flash, please tell me know on top of that how do you make the VLC Plugin run in Seamonkey 32bit, on a 64 bit installation? Right: You'll have to grab the 32bit version of VLC.. which will most likely pull in half of a 32bit OS... and with all that mess, you better install a 32bit OS... OR: you just use nswrapper as it was suggested here so often and that works reasonable well too. Dominique -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 29 May 2008, Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
On 29.05.2008 at 10:05, peter nikolic <p.nikolic1@btinternet.com> wrote:
whereas this might be true for Flash, please tell me know on top of that how do you make the VLC Plugin run in Seamonkey 32bit, on a 64 bit installation?
Right: You'll have to grab the 32bit version of VLC.. which will most likely pull in half of a 32bit OS... and with all that mess, you better install a 32bit OS...
OR: you just use nswrapper as it was suggested here so often and that works reasonable well too.
Dominique
The answer to that is dead simple i do not use the VLC stuff i do not like it and do not get on with it at all so it never rears it's ugly head I use Kaffeine and it's associated programs for video on line or on the local machine ans see no reason to change imhave no problems with video of any format i have come accross so far Pete . -- SuSE Linux 10.3-Alpha3. (Linux is like a wigwam - no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside.) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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