Re: flashplayer on debian-amd64 (sid)
2008/12/13 Hans-J. Ullrich <hans.ullrich@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?
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