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Re: Installing flash plugin



On May 22, 2007 11:46:34 pm Kenward Vaughan wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 01:00 -0300, Stephen Cormier wrote:
> > On May 22, 2007 12:18:04 am José Alburquerque wrote:
> > > Hi.  I recently read the "Plugin" thread started on 5/4/07 that
> > > explains that in order to use the flash plugin the nspluginwrapper can
> > > be used. I was able to install the package because I'm running lenny
> > > (amd64/unstable).
> > >
> > > Would someone be able to tell me where I can get the flash plugin from?
> > > I've looked for it and I can't find it.  This is what I'm using as my
> > > apt source.list:
> > >
> > > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
> > > deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
> > >
> > > deb http://debian-multimedia.dfoell.org unstable main
> > > deb-src http://debian-multimedia.dfoell.org unstable main
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> >
> > You download the plugin from the Adobe website extract the tarball then
> > copy the files (.so and .xpt) to the /usr/lib/plugins/mozilla directory
> > then run the nspluginwrapper -i
> > /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so command to install it. The
> > file I used was install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz putting this into
> > Google should come up with it.
> >
> > Stephen
>
> Something I was struck by while looking at Googled sites... do I need to
> have a 32 bit Iceweasel for this to work?  Or will it function under the
> regular one?  (Or am I off my rocker thinking that this is a 64 bit
> app? ;-)

No it works with the 64bit apps with the wrapper running the plugin I would 
think translating the 64 to 32 bits to communicate with the plugin then back 
again I am really no expert on it but that is the only way I can see it 
working.

>
> Kenward

Stephen

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