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hawkcra7

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Registered: 2011-07-28

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Flash Plugin 64 Beta Question

Hi, I am fairly new to arch and am having problems getting Adobe flash 64 plugin working with Arch.

Here is what I have done (very fresh minimal install xorg/icewm).

1) pacman -S chromium

2) Download/unzip and copy the flash plugin to ~/.mozilla/plugins.

plugins:about shows that it is installed but no flash.

here is the strange thing

If I install flash using nswrapper
pacman -S flashplugin

and remove it
pacman -R flashplugin

Flash works wonderfully.

What is pacman -S flashplugin | pacman -R flashplugin doing to my system to get the 64bit beta flash plugin to work?

Inxsible

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2008-06-09

Posts: 9,183

Re: Flash Plugin 64 Beta Question

moving to Newbie Corner...

Check the PKGBUILD and also the .install files of the package and it will tell you if it installs something that you might have missed when installing flash yourself.

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SS4

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From: !Rochford, Essex

Registered: 2010-12-05

Posts: 699

Re: Flash Plugin 64 Beta Question

Or get flashplugin-beta from the AUR

Alternatively of course use an OSS version of flash

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Griemak

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Registered: 2011-05-10

Posts: 46

Re: Flash Plugin 64 Beta Question

What is pacman -S flashplugin | pacman -R flashplugin doing to my system to get the 64bit beta flash plugin to work?

Guessing: on my system I have an Adobe folder with conf files related to Flash.  Just copying the .so into a folder won't set any of this up.  Installing the 'flashplugin' package would set all of this up, and an -R switch would leave the conf files, folders, and symlinks in place (-R just deletes the package).

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defears

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Registered: 2010-07-26

Posts: 218

Re: Flash Plugin 64 Beta Question

Isn't "flashplugin" only 32 bit? Don't you need flashplugin-prerelease (or what ever the new one is called) to be 64 bit? Did you enable multilib?

Ramses de Norre

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From: Leuven - Belgium

Registered: 2007-03-27

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Re: Flash Plugin 64 Beta Question

Isn't "flashplugin" only 32 bit? Don't you need flashplugin-prerelease (or what ever the new one is called) to be 64 bit? Did you enable multilib?

The title mentions that he is trying to install the new beta version, which is available as a native 64bit binary.

jamesbond007

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From: Germany

Registered: 2009-06-14

Posts: 150

Re: Flash Plugin 64 Beta Question

@hawkcra7: The easiest thing is to install this from AUR (e.g. using yaourt):

aur/flashplugin-prerelease 11.0.1.60-4 [installed] (952)
    Adobe Flash Player 11 Beta

It's installed on my 64 bit system and it works with chromium without any problems.

Kind regards,
jamesbond007.

mkkot

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From: Poland

Registered: 2009-12-20

Posts: 287

Re: Flash Plugin 64 Beta Question

Anyway, do you really need flash? Even youtube works with webm nowadays

Inxsible

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2008-06-09

Posts: 9,183

Re: Flash Plugin 64 Beta Question

guys, the op never asked how to install flash. I think he just wanted to know why it wouldn't work when he installed it without using pacman and after he used pacman and then removed flashplugin again, it started working. He just wanted to know what the difference between the installation procedures were.

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hawkcra7

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Registered: 2011-07-28

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Re: Flash Plugin 64 Beta Question

Yes, I didn't ask how to install it b/c I have installed it under other versions of *nix before without problems.

I had a brain fart, for some reason I thought I needed wget for flash to d/l the content but it requires curl.  Thanks to this threat I learned how to fetch/extract and check pacman packages for dependancies so it is all good.

Right or wrong this works.

pacman -S chromium
`download/extract and copy libflash.so from adobe (flash 11 beta) to ~/.mozilla/plugins (create dir if not present)`
pacman -S curl

and it should all work.

I did notice that the flashplugin (32bit using nswrapper) installs a pile of support libs not sure why but I am happy with my minimal install...does what I need.

Inxsible

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2008-06-09

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Re: Flash Plugin 64 Beta Question

The one problem with your method is that pacman won't track updates to that package and you will have to keep updating manually everytime there is a new release for security (which is mostly the only reason why they provide updates )

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