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Flash Player 9 For Linux (x86)
Nicola Soranzo sent in a link to this Adobe blog post: "This
is it. This is the officially blessed version of the Adobe Flash Player 9
for Linux (x86). Not a beta version; the final version. It's
released. Today." You can download a tar.gz or .rpm from here.
HowtoForge has an article on installing the new native Linux Flash Player 9 from Adobe on an Ubuntu Edgy Eft desktop. (Log in to post comments)
Real Audio Plugin! Posted Jan 17, 2007 21:02 UTC (Wed) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link] $ wget http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/flash-plugin-9.0.31.0-release.i386.rpm --15:48:56-- http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/flash-plugin-9.0.31.0-release.i386.rpm Resolving fpdownload.macromedia.com... 72.246.126.70 Connecting to fpdownload.macromedia.com|72.246.126.70|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 2606072 (2.5M) [audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin]Yeah, sure, it's a Real Audio Plugin. Thanks for telling me. I wasn't sure what is was :)
Real Audio Plugin! Posted Jan 17, 2007 22:13 UTC (Wed) by elanthis (guest, #6227) [Link] That's actually a bit of a problem for people who click the link and expect their graphical package manager to start the install process. The web server is sending the wrong MIME type, basing it on extension instead of file contents.
Real Audio Plugin! Posted Jan 17, 2007 22:33 UTC (Wed) by ewan (subscriber, #5533) [Link] So; it's taken these people months to port this thing from one OS to another, they still can't make it build in 64 bit after several years of the AMD64 processors being widely available, and they can't even configure their own webserver to distribute it properly.And people want to link code with this sort of quality pedigree into their web browsers? It's not as if anyone ever uses their browser for anything important...
Using Flash Plugin in 64-bit Linux Posted Jan 18, 2007 1:47 UTC (Thu) by tcwan (guest, #42830) [Link] A workaround:
I'm running Firefox 1.5.0.8 on FC5 x86_64, and the plugin won't work unless I also install nspluginwrapper.
http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux-amd64.html#nswrapper
Apparently both the nspluginwrapper and nspluginwrapper-i386 packages need to be installed (dependency issue). Some sites still don't work properly though.
Using Flash Plugin in 64-bit Linux Posted Jan 18, 2007 3:34 UTC (Thu) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link] The 100% compatability method is to setup a 32bit chroot environment properly then use schroot -p firefox to open a 32bit browser.
Of course I don't use flash all that much...
I would realy like gnash to mature to the point were I can ignore this trash propriatory software. Go Gnash!
(and FFmpeg which gives the ability for mplayer and vlc to play *.flv files, ala youtube)
Using Flash Plugin in 64-bit Linux Posted Jan 18, 2007 10:04 UTC (Thu) by gravious (subscriber, #7662) [Link] I've never properly understood this 32bit chroot procedure - I don't normally ask tech support questions on LWN but I would love to be able to watch the Daily Show from Comedy Central and YouTube content on my shiny amd64 laptop running 64bit Firefox - Can you help? Thanks drag
regards,
Using Flash Plugin in 64-bit Linux Posted Jan 18, 2007 23:35 UTC (Thu) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link] Well this is the mini-howto that I followed:https://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian...
This will probably be easier in Debian-based systems due to the infinately usefull debootstrap program. This program allows you to install the base for a Debian operating system from the command line. However debootstrap works fine it other Linux systems also.
The basic idea is that you use debootstrap to install a base 32bit system in a directory on your 64bit system.
Then you use --bind mount options to make directories like /proc, /dev, /home and /tmp the same on both systems. That way you create a more transparent user experiance and provide system resources to the chroot environment your setting up. You stick that in your /etc/fstab so that those directories get mounted automaticly.
Then you can use the chroot command to enter into the environment as root so you can install firefox or whatever application you want.
Schroot is a command that runs sort of like sudo, except you can execute command in the context of that chroot environment. It has a configuration file you can setup so you can use multiple environments.
That way you can setup a firefox icon for your taskbar and just have it run the command 'schroot -p firefox' when you click on it. Since you have the same /home and /tmp in both systems then it should make it transparent when you go to configure firefox or download files to you home directory and such.
It's not perfect, of course. since it's running from a different context the gnome background stuff (or kde if your using that) won't interact with it to much, but with firefox that isn't a big issue.
Real Audio Plugin! Posted Jan 18, 2007 9:59 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] Konqueror doesn't run Netscape plugins in-process but in a dedicated subprocess. (This was useful in days of yore when the JVM was crashier than it is now, and is still useful if you want to zap a single plugin on a single webpage.)
Because it's closed-source Posted Jan 24, 2007 1:41 UTC (Wed) by ldo (subscriber, #40946) [Link] So; it's taken these people months to port this thing from one OS to another, they still can't make it build in 64 bit after several years of the AMD64 processors being widely available... Another demonstration of why the closed-source development model just doesn't scale. (By the way, there doesn't seem to be a Flash Player available for 64-bit Windows either.) You'd think it would be so much simpler to just release the plug-in as open source and let the community help develop it, but nooooo...
You'll need FP9 to watch Linus' remarks about 2.7 on ZDNet Posted Jan 17, 2007 23:00 UTC (Wed) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648) [Link] Ironic timing, isn't it, that ZDNet's "exclusive" footage of Linus (at Linux.conf.au) explaining why there isn't a 2.7 Kernel requires Flash Player 8 or newer? For us non-MS Windows users, that means FP9. Oh well, get the plugin and watch the video. ZDNet: Torvalds surprised by resilience of 2.6 kernel What fascinated me the most is how much LESS foreign his vocal accent sounds (compared to the "Hello, this is Linus Torvalds... " audio clip I downloaded years ago). Perhaps he has been assimilated. ;-) My apologies for veering off-topic.
Flash Player 9 For Linux (x86) Posted Jan 18, 2007 1:17 UTC (Thu) by tjc (subscriber, #137) [Link] I installed the new version, and it managed to crash Firefox (1.0.8) three times in the first ten minutes on http://automobiles.honda.com.If I were a Windows user I would think about rebooting and trying again...
Flash Player 9 For Linux (x86) Posted Jan 18, 2007 9:15 UTC (Thu) by macson_g (subscriber, #12717) [Link] Successfully froze firefox-2.0.1/edgy after 30s. Waiting for Flash Player 9.1 For Linux
Flash Player 9 For Linux (x86) Posted Jan 18, 2007 12:41 UTC (Thu) by leandro (guest, #1460) [Link] I want PowerPC.
Flash Player 9 For Linux (x86) Posted Jan 18, 2007 23:46 UTC (Thu) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link] VLC and Mplayer using very recent (debian unstable recent) Ffmpeg codecs are able to play back the *.flv (flash video files) that some sites have.
This won't help you much with *.swf files though.
Places like youtube use flv and there is a python script (also aviable via debian unstable, but online version works well also) that will go and download extract the *.flv file from the urls of youtube webpages were the video is embedded.
there are probably other similar scripts for other sites or you can grep through the html of sites to find the url of the flv file and download them manually from there.
Not the best thing in the world, but hopefully Gnash will get that working soon in a release (it'll use gstreamer and/or ffmpeg to do it also)
Flash Player 9 For Linux (x86) Posted Jan 18, 2007 23:48 UTC (Thu) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link] Oh, here is the URL for it.http://www.arrakis.es/~rggi3/youtube-dl/
Flash Player 9 For Linux (x86) Posted Jan 20, 2007 9:15 UTC (Sat) by job (guest, #670) [Link] There is a very handy extension called VideoDownloader that downloads the flv files for you. For non-Firefox users, you can also paste the URL in their web form and get a download link back.
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