Re: Nspluginwrapper on AMD64

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

On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 10:43:43AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
   > 
   > The two related bugs in the BTS seem to be about "experimental" versions
   > of flashplugin-nonfree. Which version are you trying to install? Version
   > 9.0.48.0.2 works fine on my Sid/amd64 system, without any need for a
   > 32bit chroot.
   > 
Sorry for replying late.

Since, I am tracking sid, I have the latest version of
flashplugin-nonfree on the system (9.0.48.0.2).

   > This statement is a bit confusing. Did you install flashplayer in a
   > 32bit chroot or not? 
   > 
I installed flashplayer-nonfree which pulled in
install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz from macromedia.com

   > No, the dependency is satisfied because util-linux provides linux32:
   > 
My bad. Should have looked at Provides of util-linux more clearly.

I purged nspluginwrapper and flashplugin-nonfree and installed them
again. Here is the final result:

<snip>
Download done.
Flash Plugin installed.
/usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer.bin: /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer.bin: cannot execute binary file
nspluginwrapper: no appropriate viewer found for /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so
dpkg: error processing flashplugin-nonfree (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 flashplugin-nonfree
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
Setting up flashplugin-nonfree (9.0.48.0.2) ...
Installing from local file /var/cache/flashplugin-nonfree/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
Flash Plugin installed.
/usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer.bin: /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer.bin: cannot execute binary file
nspluginwrapper: no appropriate viewer found for /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so
dpkg: error processing flashplugin-nonfree (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 flashplugin-nonfree

Am I missing something in the installation chain that is causing this? 

Regards,

-- 
Sridhar M.A.   

Whoever would lie usefully should lie seldom.