Nspluginwrapper on AMD64

["Sridhar M.A." <mas@mylug.org>]

Hello,

I am trying to run debian-amd64 sid on my new system and so far am very
happy with the relative ease of the installation process (thank you
developers).

I tried to install the flashplayer-mozilla|flashplayer-nonfree. Both
failed with the same message :

nspluginwrapper: no appropriate viewer found for /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

I found the bug reported on bugs.debian.org and the comment of the
maintainer that this is probably due to a bug in chroot
package/environment. AFAICT, I do not have any chroot installs other
than that demanded by nspluginwrapper. The contents of the files in
/etc/ld.so.conf.d are :

libc.conf :
  # libc default configuration
  /usr/local/lib

x86_64-linux-gnu.conf :  
  # Multiarch support
  /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
  /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu

Rerunning ldconfig, did not solve the problem. But, what surprises me is
this fact: nspluginwrapper depends on linux32, but it is not installed.
Trying to install linux32, apt wants to remove util-linux. I am pasting
the session below :

#: apt-cache policy linux32
linux32:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1-3
  Version table:
     1-3 0
        500 http://ftp.debian.org unstable/main Packages
#: apt-get install nspluginwrapper
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed
  nspluginwrapper
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 28 not upgraded.
Need to get 110kB of archives.
After unpacking 373kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get: 1 http://ftp.debian.org unstable/contrib nspluginwrapper 0.9.91.5-1 [110kB] ...


#: apt-get install linux32
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED
  util-linux
The following NEW packages will be installed
  linux32
WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed.
This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
  util-linux
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 28 not upgraded. ...


The system appears not to honor the dependency requirement of
nspluginwrapper. Has anyone else noticed this problem? Is this a bug in
apt|aptitude or nspluginwrapper?

Any pointers will be helpful.

Regards,

-- 
Sridhar M.A.     

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