Adobe flash player Epiphany Iceweasel Iceape

Pedroski · 12-06-2008, 01:25 AM

Can't seem to get the Flash Player to work. It is installed in /home/myhome/.mozilla/plugins/
I tried changing the name of .mozilla to .iceweasel, but that caused the iceweasel browser to display everything completely crazy.

I hope iceweasel or iceape or epiphany look for it in .mozilla, but it still doesn't work!

Funny, becaus it used to work ok, before I reinstalled everything.
Anyone else having similar trouble?

lurko · 12-06-2008, 10:39 AM

~/.mozilla/plugins/ is the correct location for the libflashplayer.so file, even in Iceweasel.

Are you running a 64bit distro? If so you'll want to look at either nspluginwrapper or the new 64bit flash player 10 alpha. The latter is the better option IMHO - while I had nearly zero complaints about the nspluginwrapper approach when I was using it, the existence of a 64bit flash player pretty much obsoletes nspluginwrapper.

You're not using NoScript are you? That will block 100% of flash content if you don't specifically allow the correct domain.

Pedroski · 12-06-2008, 03:57 PM

Well, as far as I know I am not using NoScript. Never heard of it.
This laptop is an Acer 3000, definitely not 64 bit.
As I said before, it did work, before I re-installed Debian.
Maybe it's a memory problem, or I don't know what. Playing around with Open Office Basic, I got a few buttons working in a spreadsheet, doing Lotto numbers and stuff. Then, trying to do the next bit, I keep getting 'Basic syntax errror end if without if.' Well, the if is there in front of my eyes, the parser doesn't see it. So maybe there is a memory problem, time to buy a new laptop. Fixing the old one is silly.

brianL · 12-06-2008, 04:22 PM

If you can't get it installed properly using Synaptic or aptitude or apt-get, do it manually. Download install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz from Adobe. Then do:

Code:

tar -xzvf install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz
cd install_flash_player_10_linux
./flashplayer-installer

It will ask you where to install, answer:

Code:

/usr/lib/iceweasel

then reply to requests for other installations with whatever you want.

Pedroski · 12-07-2008, 01:28 AM

Did that.Doesn't work!
I have libflashplayer.so in /home/myhome/.mozilla also in /usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins, I have sym links to it in /usr/bin where the mozilla binary is. Nothing works.
The other plugins all seem to point to gxine, and to plugins that use it to handle streaming media. But you would think Adobe would have thought of that.

craigevil · 12-07-2008, 03:47 AM

Install flashplayer-mozilla - Macromedia Flash Player from the debian-multimedia.org repos.

stratotak · 12-07-2008, 05:01 AM

Just from my experience of installing flash a few days ago.I downloaded tgz from adobe then copied the libflash.so to ..
/usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins
/usr/lib/firefox/plugins
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
/usr/lib/epiphany-gecko/2.23/plugins
/usr/lib
and to my home .mozilla /plugins
Only problem I had was that epiphany wasnt using adobe's flash..It was using swfdec to play flash.If you see a big grey start button logo on flash files thats the swfdec mozilla plugin.It basically plays back like a slide show with sputtered sound and video.I just uninstalled swfdec mozilla plugin with synaptic and all was fine.
Just a side note.I just now today installed Debian lenny and choose to use Kde.No Gnome.I found out that Konqueror and latest flash dont get along.It would have a blank white area where the video should be.I downloaded older 9 version and it fixed problem.Not sure If its a Flash or a Konqueror bug.

Pedroski · 12-07-2008, 06:14 AM

Question: do you have in your eg, mozilla/plugins directory sim links to /usr/lib/totem? =r gxine? And if so, do you have files there ending in .xpt? I ask because the instructions for installing flashplayer 9 mention such a file (ending in .xpt) but the flashplayer 10 installer doesn't produce such a file.
I looked for falshplayer 9 without finding it. I only find version 10.
libflashplayer is installed in so many directories in my laptop, you'd think it must be found and work. But, maybe the missing .xpt file is the problem. I've tried everything else!

Pedroski · 12-07-2008, 06:15 AM

=r should be or, sorry!

stratotak · 12-07-2008, 12:13 PM

I didnt link them.I just copied over the .so into each of the browser plugin folders so each had there own .so. And none of the browser plugin folders has a .xpt file for libflash.And the older version of Adobe 9 is in there archive section..
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/view...4266&sliceId=2
Its a 134 meg download.But if your not using Konqueror you wont need it.Iceweasel and Epiphany worked fine with version 10.
When I was running Gnome flash worked fine with doing it this way.And now that Im running Kde it works fine to.Dont use Konqueror much but flash works If I need it.

Pedroski · 12-08-2008, 01:48 AM

I've copied it everywhere, but it won't work. I've run ldconfig. It did work, before I reinstalled. Life is difficult sometimes.

stratotak · 12-08-2008, 12:07 PM

??If you go to say Youtube and watch a video ?What happens?Will it start playing?Crash browser?Video is all out of sync or sputtering?If you right click over the video will the adobe setting pop-up?Like I said one problem I had under gnome was it had installed swfdec mozilla plugin and it was over riding adobe flash.By using synaptic and searchig for swfdec I uninstalled.You can tell If its using swfdec because theres a big ugly grey/silver start button logo .For me .I need flash..I love watching asian horror movies from http://www.asian-horror-movies.com/.
Although when I went there today Its not working.But its a site issue,It is same under my windows setup.