Flash broken in 64bit lenny?

war1025 · 03-13-2008, 11:50 AM

Last night my computer was acting up (Iceweasel wouldn't start, it kept telling me that it was already running, but if I tried to kill it, nothing happened.) So I restarted, and now Iceweasel is working but the Flash plugin is not.

I was wondering if this was happening to other people or if I just messed something up along the way. Is there any way to fix it, or do I just have to wait it out until a fix comes along?

rickh · 03-13-2008, 12:17 PM

Are you using the "flashplugin-nonfree" app from the Debian repositories? As far as I know that should be working OK. I believe the package has been temporarily removed from Lenny, so if you have to reinstall, you'll have to pull it from Sid (contrib).

hkoster1 · 03-13-2008, 01:50 PM

As a matter of fact: use either "flashplugin-nonfree" or "flashplayer-mozilla" (they're mutually exclusive). Often, one of these is broken in testing or in Sid, but then the other one will work. I've not experienced both of them not working at the same time yet in over a year. And yes, "flashplugin-nonfree" is working right now...

war1025 · 03-13-2008, 03:57 PM

Installed flashplugin-nonfree from SID. Works great... well, at any rate it works, haven't used it much.
I had to apt-get remove flashplayer-mozilla before it would install, I downloaded the .deb from the debian archive instead of going directly through the repos. (I've never had much luck with apt-pinning or whatever it is called.)

hungrigerhaifisch · 03-15-2008, 01:08 PM

Flash seems to be broken for me in 64bit Lenny.

It just 'stopped' working one day, after an update...This happened alot, but the fix was to just reinstall it via nspluginwrapper, this does not work anymore...

I've tried via the repos, directly using adobes tar.gz; the plugin will not install.

It always lead to the

Quote:

nspluginwrapper: no appropriate viewer found

error. I've tried alot of things, it will not work.
Any ideas are of course welcome.

the trooper · 03-15-2008, 04:00 PM

Download the flashplayer-mozilla Deb package from the Debian multimedia site.
Then install using dpkg.
This has worked for me in the past when updated flash packages have not worked.
Hope this helps.
Regards.
The trooper.

lycan · 03-16-2008, 12:24 PM

64 bit lenny repo does not has flashplayer-nonfree package. It has flashplayer-mozilla package which depends on nspluginwrapper package. If you install flashplayer-mozilla package, nspluginwrapper will also install in your system. But by default iceweasel does not use flash plugin.

Execute the following command after you install those packages:

Code:

nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/flashplayer/libflashplayer.so

Then restart iceweasel, flash should work now.

hungrigerhaifisch · 03-16-2008, 01:23 PM

Quote:

Execute the following command after you install those packages:
Code:

nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/flashplayer/libflashplayer.so

Then restart iceweasel, flash should work now.

Done that, doesn't work. thats were I get:

Code:

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

What is starnge is that wine will not run either, no matter what I try.

Code:

wine --version
wine-0.9.57
Segmentation fault

I'm guessing that both problems are related somehow, as both wine and flash stopped working simultaneously. But as I seriously need to 'clean' my system anyway (after 4years...) I think I'll just reinstall and hope that any old-dangling-broken-symlinks get cleaned up in the process

JackieBrown · 03-16-2008, 04:15 PM

Shot in the dark here, but do you have binfmt-support installed

war1025 · 03-17-2008, 01:18 AM

As in we should have it installed or we shouldn't?

lycan · 03-19-2008, 01:08 AM

You need ia-32 lib packages from lenny repo.