How do I install flash for web browser uzbl? (Debian wheezy 64 bit)

wje_lq · 06-04-2014, 06:05 AM

Ok, this is embarrassing.

I'm running Debian wheezy 64 bit, and using Debian's supplied package for uzbl, a lightweight, ultraconfigurable web browser. I wish to install flash.

I go to uzbl.org's FAQ, where it says:

Quote:

Do you support flash? javascript? Ajax? Recent html/css/.. standards? Java/media plugins?

Yes, Webkit takes care of all of that. Not that we like all of these, but you can use them if you want.

We use the NPAPI plugin architecture (just like mozilla, opera, etc) so just install the plugins normally, and things should work.

Now I know as much as I did before.

I run iceweasel (Firefox for Debian) and it runs flash fine; the 64 bit libflashplayer.so is located at /usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins/libflashplayer.so

Since the directories /usr/lib/webkitgtk-1.0-0 and /usr/lib/webkitgtk-3.0-0 already exist, I tried for each of them creating a subdirectory "plugins" (mode 755) and making under that a copy of the 64 bit libflashplayer.so (mode 755) and relaunching uzbl-tabbed. It still does not recognize flash.

Where do I go from here?

maples · 06-04-2014, 09:02 PM

Did you install the flash player package? I know on Arch it's the package 'flashplugin,' a quick Google search should tell you the package name, then use 'sudo apt-get install $package_name'

EDIT: look here: https://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer

rokytnji · 06-04-2014, 11:05 PM

Low spec laptop so I run a 10.3 flashplayer. Hence the backup in my locate readout.

Code:

harry@biker:~
$ cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 7 (wheezy)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="7"
VERSION="7 (wheezy)"
ID=debian
ANSI_COLOR="1;31"
HOME_URL="http://www.debian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://www.debian.org/support/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.debian.org/"
harry@biker:~
$ locate libflashplayer.so
/home/harry/Backups/flash/10.3 flash/libflashplayer.so
/usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so

I am 32 bit wheezy