Macromedia Flash Player for Mandriva Linux 64 bit program
 

Hello

I am working with Mandriva Linux 2006 program. It works fine. It is the 64 bit version. I have difficulty in viewing some aspects from the browser. It asks me to install the Macromedia Flash Player. The decompression of the tar
ball worked fine and it created a directory.

I can't install the Macromedia Flash Player. Please read the following:


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[root@c83-250-91-176 Desktop]# cd 'install_flash_player_7_linux/'
[root@c83-250-91-176 install_flash_player_7_linux]# ./flashplayer-installer

ERROR: Your architecture, \'x86_64\', is not supported by the
Macromedia Flash Player installer.

[root@c83-250-91-176 install_flash_player_7_linux]#
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I just followed the instructions from the following site.
Could you please help me to install the Macromedia Flash Player? Probably
I have to download the 64 bit version of the tarball. How can I find it?


http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/...ShockwaveFlash

It seems they have given me the 32 bit version. I just followed the instructions.

You can't flash only runs on 32 bit browsers. Install firefox 32 bit.

Thanks jlo for the reply.

How do I uninstall the existing Firefox? There is no uninstaller icon or somethintg similar.

I need help. I urge someone to help me.
If I am going to install a 32 bit version of Firefox, I belive it is imperative to remove the 64 bit existing one.

I am not sure whether a 32 bit browser would work on a 64 bit system.

My Mandriva is a 64 bit version too.

Please help me to solve the problem.

It seems nobody is in a position to help me out here.

I must install Macromedia Flash Player. Because some Internet based application demands it.

The other alternative would be to download another browser which has everything built in by default; this is very unlikely scenario. Because when you download and install programs, it always complains about the missing dependencies.

By the same token, I wouldn't expect a browser which has everything.

Your help and comments are very welcome

Installing a different browser won't solve the problem, the flash program itself is what doesn't work on the 64bit. I have found swfdec, which is a third party program that kind of works for flash. I've had some problems with it showing some files, and I've never gotten it to work in a way that I can interact through flash.

Another option is to do a chroot, which sets up a 32bit environment that you can use to run some programs. The only directions I have are for ubuntu, I did a quick search here for a more general walkthrough and didn't find anything.

You have to do a manual install. Find the "flashplayer.xpt" and "libflashplayer.so" files from the "install_flash_player_7_linux" directory where you extracted the tarball. Copy these 2 files into your browser's /plugins/ directory and you'll be good to go!

this is just a fact of the install script only works on 32bit platforms, the plugin works fine.

Thanks purelithium for the support.

I will try this. I will come back to you if I face problems. I will not do it right now. I am busy with a few other things.

Ok! good luck!

I logged on as a root user and tried in vain to copy and paste the files.
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[root@c83-250-91-176 Desktop]# cd install_flash_player_7_linux
[root@c83-250-91-176 install_flash_player_7_linux]# ls
flashplayer-installer*
libflashplayer.so*
Readme.txt
flashplayer.xpt
Readme.htm

[ I copied the above 'flashplaer.xpt' file. ]




[root@c83-250-91-176 nissanka]# cd Desktop
[root@c83-250-91-176 Desktop]# ls
chmlib-0.37/ install_flash_player_7_linux-1.tar.gz
chmlib-0.37.4.zip
install_flash_player_7_linux.tar.gz
device.desktop
jre1.5.0_01/
firefox/
jre-1_5_0_05-linux-amd64-rpm.bin
firefox-1.5.tar.gz
rarlinux-3.5.1.tar.gz
gnomerar-0.5.0.tar.gz
trash.desktop
Home.desktop
usr
install_flash_player_7_linux/
Welcome.desktop



[root@c83-250-91-176 Desktop]# cd firefox
[root@c83-250-91-176 firefox]# ls
browserconfig.properties
libnss3.so*
libxpistub.so*
chrome/
libnssckbi.so*
mozilla-xremote-client*
components/
libplc4.so*
plugins/
defaults/
libplds4.so*
readme.txt
extensions/
libsmime3.so*
removed-files*
firefox*
libsoftokn3.chk
res/
firefox-bin*
libsoftokn3.so*
run-mozilla.sh*
greprefs/
libssl3.so*
searchplugins/
icons/
libxpcom_compat.so*
updater*
libmozjs.so*
libxpcom_core.so*
updater.ini
libnspr4.so*
libxpcom.so*
xpicleanup*


[root@c83-250-91-176 firefox]# cp 'flashplayer.xpt' plugins/
cp: cannot stat `flashplayer.xpt': No such file or directory
[root@c83-250-91-176 firefox]#


What is the problem?


Moreover, Purelithium wants me to copy the following file too.

libflashplayer.so
I don't find the file.
I found the following:

libflashplayer.so* [This is not that file.]

Why not use Konqueror? It is a lot less confusing to accomplish these actions if you are a newbie. Just open up the "home" button on your desktop and you can browse around your files in a file-browser. Copy and Paste as you normally would

If you insist on using a command line to accomplish this, execute these commands from within the "install_flash_player_7_linux" directory:

(I'll show you what I would do to copy it, but your path may be different)

cp libflashplayer.so /home/gelan/pgms/firefox/plugins
cp flashplayer.xpt /home/gelan/pgms/firefox/plugins

That will copy the required files. No changing directories, nothing. If you want you can cd to the plugins directory later to check if the files were copied.

Yes it is. the "*" only denotes that the file is able to be executed with a "./" preceeding it in a commandline.

Thanks purelithium for the reply.

Konqueror browser is on my system by default. I mean when I installed this Mandriva Linux 2006, it has installed Konqueror.

Today, people use Firefox; I mean Firefox is a popular browser.

Do you use Konqueror always?

Now I will look into the paths you have mentioned.

I use firefox to browse the web, but Konqueror is KDE's local file-browser as well as a web-browser. I don't like it, and would prefer to have something that was standalone to work with, but I haven't taken the time yet to find one.

Yep, firefox is a popular browser, I love it.

Thanks again purelithium for the comments.

Inside my ' Desktop ' folder, I will find both 'firefox ' and ' install_flash_player_7_linux ' folders.


Please look at the following:

[root@c83-250-91-176 nissanka]# ls
Applications/
Rock5.html
Cisco_from_Bill/
Rock5.html~
Desktop/
Sun
diplom.jpg
Music/
Sun~
Documents/
Pictures/
teco1
Download/
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[root@c83-250-91-176 nissanka]# cd Desktop


[root@c83-250-91-176 Desktop]# ls
chmlib-0.37/
install_flash_player_7_linux-1.tar.gz
chmlib-0.37.4.zip
install_flash_player_7_linux.tar.gz
device.desktop
jre1.5.0_01/
firefox/
jre-1_5_0_05-linux-amd64-rpm.bin
firefox-1.5.tar.gz
rarlinux-3.5.1.tar.gz
gnomerar-0.5.0/
trash.desktop
gnomerar-0.5.0.tar.gz
usr
Home.desktop
Welcome.desktop
install_flash_player_7_linux/



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[root@c83-250-91-176 Desktop]# cd 'install_flash_player_7_linux/'


[root@c83-250-91-176 install_flash_player_7_linux]# ls
flashplayer-installer*
libflashplayer.so*
Readme.txt
flashplayer.xpt
Readme.htm
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[root@c83-250-91-176 install_flash_player_7_linux]# cp libflashplayer.so* /firefox/plugins
cp: cannot create regular file `/firefox/plugins': No such file or directory


[root@c83-250-91-176 install_flash_player_7_linux]# cp libflashplayer.so* Desktop/firefox/plugins
cp: cannot create regular file `Desktop/firefox/plugins': No such file or directory

[root@c83-250-91-176 install_flash_player_7_linux]#

[What is the problem?]

I tried the following command too.


[root@c83-250-91-176 install_flash_player_7_linux]# cp libflashplayer.so* /Desktop/firefox/plugins

cp: cannot create regular file `/Desktop/firefox/plugins': No such file or directory


[root@c83-250-91-176 install_flash_player_7_linux]#

The command to copy must include the FULL path of the folder you are trying to copy it to. The command you tried to run was trying to copy the files to a nonexistent folder in your "install_flash..." folder. This was what you were telling the computer to do:

copy /home/YOUR-USERNAME-HERE/Desktop/install_flash_player_7_linux/flashplayer.xpt to /home/YOUR-USERNAME-HERE/Desktop/install_flash_player_7_linux/Desktop/firefox/plugins/

This folder does not exist.

What you WANT to do is this:

copy /home/YOUR-USERNAME-HERE/Desktop/install_flash_player_7_linux/flashplayer.xpt to /home/YOUR-USERNAME-HERE/Desktop/firefox/plugins/

do you see the difference?

The commands I said before:

[You do not need to include the asterisk (*) ]
cp libflashplayer.so /home/YOUR-USERNAME-HERE/Desktop/firefox/plugins
[You do not need to include the asterisk (*) ]

cp flashplayer.xpt /home/YOUR-USERNAME-HERE/Desktop/firefox/plugins

If these are run while inside the "install_flash_player_7_linux" they will do what you want to accomplish. When you open Konsole, cd to that directory and COPY and PASTE(shift+insert) into the konsole. The only thing you will need to change will be to replace "YOUR-USERNAME-HERE" with your actual username.

It seems to me that you don't understand the directory structure of linux. Or actually you don't understand much about linux at all. That's ok, just don't freak out when something doesn't work for you. I just want you to make sure you actually read everything I've said and DO IT TO THE LETTER.

You need to do some reading and research: http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz

Thanks purelithium for the reply. It was very kind of you to provide me with a lengthy reply. I am very glad that there are people around us to give real help.

I will follow your instructions. My user name is ' nissanka ' . That is my first name too.

It worked. I am not so clever like you all in Linux. I know a couple of things.

Now Macromedia Flash Player should work. I will try it later and post here again.


[root@c83-250-91-176 install_flash_player_7_linux]# cp /home/nissanka/Desktop/install_flash_player_7_linux/flashplayer.xpt /home/nissanka/Desktop/firefox/plugins/
[root@c83-250-91-176 install_flash_player_7_linux]# cp /home/nissanka/Desktop/install_flash_player_7_linux/libflashplayer.so /home/nissanka/Desktop/firefox/plugins/
[root@c83-250-91-176 install_flash_player_7_linux]#

;) see, persistence will always prevail!

I know you're not as experienced in linux. It will come, all I ask is that when you request help and when you recieve that help, that you read it and follow the directions.

I was like you only about 2 months ago, that link I gave you helped me understand what was going on inside my computer, as I hope it will help you. I wasn't trying to make you feel bad about your abilities at all, I was just getting to worked up(as usual).

Have a good holiday!

Maybe I'm missing something but aren't you just trying to copy the files to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins, where it'll be picked up by Firefox, Konqueror and any other browsers. To do this go menu->Run Command and type When the new konqueror window pops up (give it a few seconds) navigate into your home directory (type /home/yourusername in the address bar) and copy the files. Now goto /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and paste the files in there.

The way Konqueror works is almost exactly the same as the Windows Explorer on Windows - you can type in file paths in the 'address' bar, copy and paste files with ctrl+c and ctrl+v and so on.

You didn't feel me bad at all. It was a great help.

Tkedwards, I will try what you have suggested tomorrow. Now it is late here in Europe. It is my understanding you are all in the other side of the Atlantic.

I must sleep now; I have to go to work tomorrow morning.

Your suggestion on easyurpmi [on my other thread] is great. I will try it tomorrow.

Good luck! I thought you might find it easier to use the GUI (Konqueror) as you get used to Linux since its so like the Windows GUI for managing files. purelithium's suggestions are very good though - if you learn to use the command line you'll find its often a lot faster for file moving/copying than a GUI anyway :)

oops nm, has already been mentioned.

I am having problems with the browser still.

I got the following message:

Additional plugins are required to display all the media on this page.

Click here to download the plugins.


[ When I clicked it, the message was 'No suitable plugins were found.]

What is the problem?



There was another item called ' unknown plugins ' .
Next to it there was an item called ' Manual install '.

When I clicked it, I could download again the Macromedia Flash Player compressed again.

It's probably not a flash plugin if it's listed as "unknown"

A lot of sites use plugins that are only useable on Windows browsers, as they are plugins that they made themselves. You're just out of luck on that one, unless you can convince the person who runs the site to change to a plugin that uses linux.

Thanks purelithium for the comments.

I am used to read news from the following website every day.

http://www.dailynews.lk/

[I have a bookmark for this site.]



At the top of the page, I read the following message.

Additional plugins are required to display all the media on this page.


After the message, I have the possibility to click ' install Missing Plugins '.

A bit below this message, I have another message. It is ' Click here to download plugin'.

Even the following sites gave me the same problem.

http://www.roman-empire.net/emperors/nero-index.html

http://www.englishpage.com/grammar/

I'm not getting that error, so there must be something else wrong.

Are you sure you're running firefox from the directory you made? Are you sure you're not opening the native firefox in Mandriva? Go to help>About Mozilla Firefox and that will tell you if you're using the right one or not. If it's 1.0.7, then you're using the one that comes with Mandriva, if it's 1.5, then it should work.

It is Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6 version which was bundled onto the software package; I mean when I installed this Mandriva 2006 version, it was there. I don't think I downloaded and installed it.

At the bottom of the page , by default, there is an icon of Firefox. I just clicked it to open the browser.

The following shows where it resides. It is inside the Desktop folder. Is there anything to rectify?

[nissanka@c83-250-91-176 ~]$ pwd
/home/nissanka

[nissanka@c83-250-91-176 ~]$ cd Desktop
[nissanka@c83-250-91-176 Desktop]$ ls
chmlib-0.37/
install_flash_player_7_linux-1.tar.gz
chmlib-0.37.4.zip
install_flash_player_7_linux.tar.gz
device.desktop
jre1.5.0_01/
firefox/
jre-1_5_0_05-linux-amd64-rpm.bin
firefox-1.5.tar.gz
rarlinux-3.5.1.tar.gz
gnomerar-0.5.0/
trash.desktop
gnomerar-0.5.0.tar.gz
usr
Home.desktop
Welcome.desktop
install_flash_player_7_linux/
[nissanka@c83-250-91-176 Desktop]$


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[nissanka@c83-250-91-176 Desktop]$ cd firefox
[nissanka@c83-250-91-176 firefox]$ ls
browserconfig.properties
libnss3.so*
libxpistub.so*
chrome/
libnssckbi.so*
mozilla-xremote-client*
components/
libplc4.so*
plugins/
defaults/
libplds4.so*
readme.txt
extensions/
libsmime3.so*
removed-files*
firefox*
libsoftokn3.chk
res/
firefox-bin*
libsoftokn3.so*
run-mozilla.sh*
greprefs/
libssl3.so*
searchplugins/
icons/
libxpcom_compat.so* updater*
libmozjs.so*
libxpcom_core.so*
updater.ini
libnspr4.so*
libxpcom.so*
xpicleanup*
[nissanka@c83-250-91-176 firefox]$

Ok, that means that you're running the mandriva-supplied firefox, not the one you downloaded. You want to run the firefox script from inside the folder on your desktop, not the icon in your menu. You will have to re-direct the icon to where the firefox script in the folder.

You really need to do some investigating and just clicking around on your own. a lot of the stuff you've been having troubles with is just the fact that you don't understand how the operating system is set up and how programs work. Read, research, get to know how things work.

Just fool around, clicking, editing properties, etc. You need to invest some time to sit down and do this or you won't understand how to do things.

No, it doesn't.

I can't remember where the standard firefox is kept, but it's DEFINITELY not in your desktop.

It's somewhere in the /usr directory.

I can't help you, because I don't know enough to show you where everything is, because you don't know enough about the operating system and the directory structure for me to explain things to you.

Thanks purelithium for the comments.

I looked into the 'src' folder.

It has the RPM folder. I will find it out and come back to you. I know what you mean here. That file is equal to an .exe file in Windows environment. I must find it. Where is it?
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[nissanka@c83-250-91-176 usr]$ ls
bin/ include/ lib/ sbin/ tmp@
etc/ java/ lib64/ share/ X11R6/
games/ jre-1_5_0_05-linux-amd64-rpm.bin local/ src/
[nissanka@c83-250-91-176 usr]$ cd src
[nissanka@c83-250-91-176 src]$ ls
RPM/
[nissanka@c83-250-91-176 src]$

purelithium
Could you tell me the name of that file?

I recall it firmly on my old computer. I just went into the Firefox folder and double click
that file. Then the Firfox browser starts. Now that file is in some other place.

I must copy it onto the Firefox folder.

What is the name of that file?

The Firefox that comes with Mandriva (ie. 1.0.6) installs in the various directories under the /usr tree. The executable is /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox

The Firefox that you downloaded in the .tar.gz file installed to wherever you extraced it. The .tar.gz file is the same type of thing as a zip file and the way you use them is the same as with most zip files on Windows - extract the contents to a folder and it from there. The executable from the .tar.gz is just named firefox and is in that folder you extracted the file out to. You should be able to just go into that folder and double click the file to run firefox.

Is this what you were asking?