multilib flashplugin problem

aiguofer · 2011-10-11 20:57:05

Hi, I jus recently switched over to Arch and so far I'm loving it. However, I'm having a problem with my flash support. I had installed flashplugin during my first install without the multilib enabled. Everything seemed to work fine until I tried playing some flash games in Lumosity.com. When the games load they look choppy, it doesn't load the graphics entirely and just doesn't provide a good experience. I never had this problem in Fedora, although I was using the 32 bit through nspluginwrapper.

I figured that might be the problem here, so I followed the Wiki instructions to try to install the 32 bit version. First I added the multilib repo then installed flashplugin. However, when I install it after adding the multilib repo it doesn't pull in any other dependencies, so I manually installed nspluginwrapper then tried reinstalling flashplugin again, but I feel like it's still using the 64 bit version. I looked in the /usr/lib32 folder and didn't find anything related to flash and the choppy graphics persist.

If anyone could help me figure this out I'd greatly appreciate it!

ethail · 2011-10-11 21:02:35

Flashplugin is no more in multilib as adobe added x64 support. Just uninstall flash to get rid of some unneeded deps, install it again.

oboedad55 · 2011-10-11 21:35:15

aiguofer wrote:

Hi, I jus recently switched over to Arch and so far I'm loving it. However, I'm having a problem with my flash support. I had installed flashplugin during my first install without the multilib enabled. Everything seemed to work fine until I tried playing some flash games in Lumosity.com. When the games load they look choppy, it doesn't load the graphics entirely and just doesn't provide a good experience. I never had this problem in Fedora, although I was using the 32 bit through nspluginwrapper.
I figured that might be the problem here, so I followed the Wiki instructions to try to install the 32 bit version. First I added the multilib repo then installed flashplugin. However, when I install it after adding the multilib repo it doesn't pull in any other dependencies, so I manually installed nspluginwrapper then tried reinstalling flashplugin again, but I feel like it's still using the 64 bit version. I looked in the /usr/lib32 folder and didn't find anything related to flash and the choppy graphics persist.
If anyone could help me figure this out I'd greatly appreciate it!

Are you using 64 bit or 32 bit Arch? If 64 bit then the previous poster is correct, flashplugin 11 is in the repos. I presume that the 32 bit version is also there as well.

aiguofer · 2011-10-11 22:03:13

Hi, yes I'm using 64 bit. How do I explicitly install the 32 bit flashplugin then? The 64 bit version is causing me problems so I would rather use the 32 bit.

I tried reinstalling flashplugin but it's not any different.

Attached are a couple pictures to show the problem.

This is what happens after I click next

After clicking next: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-_TIm … 253A51.png

and then this happens after I hover mouse to the unseen 'Launch Game' button

Aftermouse hover: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-uaQu … 253A11.png

Mod edit: The images you included are far too big: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … s_and_Code

Last edited by bernarcher (2011-10-11 23:05:19)

oboedad55 · 2011-10-11 23:29:40

Have you had a look here? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Browser_Plugins

aiguofer · 2011-10-12 01:00:25

First I'd like to apologize about the picture sizes, I'll keep that in mind for the future.

@Oboe, yes I looked there as well, but the information doesn't seem to be very helpful to me. I just tried manually downloading the i686 version of the package and installing it then wrapping it by doing this:

$ pacman --arch=i686 -U flashplugin-11.0.1.152-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
$ nspluginwrapper -v -n -a -i

But it seems that firefox is now trying to access the flashplugin in /usr/lib/mozilla which is for 32 bit instead of the wrapped plugin which is now in my ~/.mozilla directory.

Last edited by aiguofer (2011-10-12 01:09:10)

oboedad55 · 2011-10-12 01:56:14

Are you having this problem with all flash sites or is it just this one?

aiguofer · 2011-10-12 03:10:08

Yeah, so far from the sites I've used it's the only one I've had trouble with... although it was working perfectly on my Fedora machine before I switched.

aiguofer · 2011-10-14 17:47:42

*bump*

So no one's had these problems? I reported it it here. But since I know that it works fine with the 32 bit wrapped plugin I'd be grateful if somoene can help me figure out how to install that instead.

defcon · 2011-10-23 09:30:34

I have this problem too. But i have it in different distros (Arch, Fedora, DEB-based distros). It only works when i downgrade flashplugin.

aiguofer · 2011-10-31 15:01:21

Yep... figured out how to downgrade back to multilib version (10.3). In case anyone else needs this on arch, go to http://schlunix.org/archlinux/multilib/os/x86_64/ and you can find it there.

Not sure if I should mark as solved since the problem still exists... but here's a temporal workaround.

cra · 2011-11-17 22:53:23

I have same problem with i686 here.
Had to downgrade my flash with AUR package of flashplayer-10.1, that solved the problem. Think it upstream then? (actually, more like sidestream)

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#1 2011-10-11 20:57:05

multilib flashplugin problem

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Re: multilib flashplugin problem

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Re: multilib flashplugin problem

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Re: multilib flashplugin problem

#5 2011-10-11 23:29:40

Re: multilib flashplugin problem

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