Re: New amd64 system needs flash player
On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 18:55 +0000, Camaleón wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 13:32:40 -0500, John W Foster wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 10:31 +0000, Camaleón wrote:
>
> >> If got that file ("libflashplayer.so", pure 64-bits) installed in my
> >> system (it's about 9.1 MiB and *is vulnerable* to some recently
> >> discovered flaws which were not corrected for version "10.0.45.2").
>
> (...)
>
> > Thanks send it & I,ll look at it. I have what is 'supposed' to be a pure
> > 64 bit libflahplayer.so that I got from Ubuntu. It will not install. I
> > tried just placing the lib in ~/lib64 but that did not work. I welcome
> > any possible solutions.
>
> I'm preparing the file right now. I'll packet it as "tar.bz2".
>
> To check the file type you can issue:
>
> sm01@stt008:~/Desktop$ file libflashplayer.so
> libflashplayer.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, stripped
>
> The "ELF 64-bit" tell you about the architecture nature of the file :-)
>
> > If you have it working where did you place the lib so that Iceweasel
> > etc. could find it??
>
> Here I'm running Lenny with stock Iceweasel (3.0.6). In this browser
> release, the plugins have to be dropped under "~/.mozilla/plugins/
> libflashplayer.so" (I had to manually create the "plugins" folder).
>
> If you want all your users make use of the plugin, I guess it has to be
> dropped under "/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so". But
> remember that if you leave the "Adobe crap-Flash" plugin in this
> location, it will take preference over the free one (Gnash).
>
> Just make your own tests.
>
> And remember: the plugin I am sending you is *vulnerable* to some attacks
> that also affects linux users. Use with caution :-/
>
> Greetings,
>
> --
> Camaleón
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Thanks! It worked. I put it in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins & reloaded the
browser. All seems OK. My games work anyway. Now to get the streaming
videos to work. I just love building a new system. Lots of challenges...
BTW what attack vulnerabilities are you referring to. Also The free
'gnash' player does not work at all.
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