Using Flash Plugin in 64-bit Linux

Posted Jan 18, 2007 1:47 UTC (Thu) by tcwan (guest, #42830)
In reply to: Real Audio Plugin! by ewan
Parent article: Flash Player 9 For Linux (x86)

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.

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Using Flash Plugin in 64-bit Linux

Posted Jan 18, 2007 3:34 UTC (Thu) by drag (guest, #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 (guest, #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,
Anto

Using Flash Plugin in 64-bit Linux

Posted Jan 18, 2007 23:35 UTC (Thu) by drag (guest, #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.