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psilo357

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Registered: 2008-10-31

Posts: 116

[SOLVED] trying to install nspluginwrapper and flash

So, i just started up my first Arch box, and im really excited, I already like it more than the gentoo I was battling with for the past 2 months.

Anyways, I'm following this wiki

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ins … _on_Arch64

and whenever I am in the folder where I extracted the tarball of nspluginwrapper to, in this folder:

linux nspluginwrapper-1.0.0]$

and run makepkg, it tells me

==> ERROR: PKGBUILD does not exist.

What is the next step i need to do to continue my install?

thanks

Last edited by psilo357 (2008-11-01 19:08:53)

SamC

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From: Calgary

Registered: 2008-05-13

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Re: [SOLVED] trying to install nspluginwrapper and flash

Could you paste the output of ls -l in that directory?

psilo357

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Posts: 116

Re: [SOLVED] trying to install nspluginwrapper and flash

$ ls -l
total 144
-rw-r--r-- 1 randy randy 17992 2008-05-22 03:43 COPYING
-rw-r--r-- 1 randy randy 46255 2008-06-29 16:13 ChangeLog
-rw-r--r-- 1 randy randy 12661 2008-06-23 16:20 Makefile
-rw-r--r-- 1 randy randy  2735 2008-06-29 09:44 NEWS
-rw-r--r-- 1 randy randy  2908 2008-06-29 15:19 README
-rw-r--r-- 1 randy randy   922 2008-05-22 03:55 TODO
-rwxr-xr-x 1 randy randy 19612 2008-06-29 15:17 configure
drwxr-xr-x 4 randy randy  4096 2008-06-29 16:16 lsb-build
drwxr-xr-x 3 randy randy  4096 2008-06-29 16:16 npapi
-rw-r--r-- 1 randy randy  7385 2008-06-29 16:16 nspluginwrapper.spec
drwxr-xr-x 2 randy randy  4096 2008-06-29 16:16 src
drwxr-xr-x 2 randy randy  4096 2008-06-29 16:16 tests
drwxr-xr-x 2 randy randy  4096 2008-06-29 16:16 utils

thanks

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

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Re: [SOLVED] trying to install nspluginwrapper and flash

So, i just started up my first Arch box, and im really excited, I already like it more than the gentoo I was battling with for the past 2 months.

Anyways, I'm following this wiki

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ins … _on_Arch64

and whenever I am in the folder where I extracted the tarball of nspluginwrapper to, in this folder:

linux nspluginwrapper-1.0.0]$

and run makepkg, it tells me

==> ERROR: PKGBUILD does not exist.

What is the next step i need to do to continue my install?

thanks

It's because you're using the wrong tarball. Go here:

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=6217

Click on the tarball link in the middle of the page on the left. That's the tarball you need in order to follow the instructions in the wiki.

psilo357

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Registered: 2008-10-31

Posts: 116

Re: [SOLVED] trying to install nspluginwrapper and flash

so im confused now.  I download the PKGBUILD file seperately from the tar.gz file, then i extract the tar.gz file, and put the PKGBUILD file in the same folder, then run it?  What is the RPM for?

thanks

EDIT:  nvm, im a dummy...lol, i thought that was a path to the PKGBUILD file, not all seperate files...doh

Last edited by psilo357 (2008-10-31 06:30:43)

skottish

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Re: [SOLVED] trying to install nspluginwrapper and flash

so im confused now.  I download the PKGBUILD file seperately from the tar.gz file, then i extract the tar.gz file, and put the PKGBUILD file in the same folder, then run it?  What is the RPM for?

thanks

EDIT:  nvm, im a dummy...lol, i thought that was a path to the PKGBUILD file, not all seperate files...doh

I'm not sure where you're in the process, so I'm just going to assume that you're still working on this.

All you need to do this is the tarball from AUR that I linked you to. You don't need to move anything out of that directory, nor do you need to put anything into it. Simply extract the tarball, enter the directory, and run makepkg -s. That's it. pacman will pull down any sources that you need, as well as any supporting files necessary. When it's done, and in the same directory, run pacman -U on the file that ends in .x86_64.pkg.tar.gz. I'm not looking at the exact package, so I can't tell you its exact name.

Reading this and the links within will be very helpful:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR

Last edited by skottish (2008-10-31 16:33:46)

psilo357

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Registered: 2008-10-31

Posts: 116

Re: [SOLVED] trying to install nspluginwrapper and flash

well,i got it installed, just took me a few to figure out the setup...

thanks for all the help everyone

peace

psilo357

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Re: [SOLVED] trying to install nspluginwrapper and flash

well, need some more help.  I have installed both nspluginwrapper and nspluginwrapper-flash, but they are not working.  when i go to youtube.com i get the message that either i don't have javascript enabled or that i have an old version of flash player.

When i check the toos --> addons --> plugins in firefox it does show nspluginwrapper, so I think that is working, any idea what to try next?

thanks

0x001A4

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From: Ontario, Canada

Registered: 2008-10-29

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Re: [SOLVED] trying to install nspluginwrapper and flash

well, need some more help.  I have installed both nspluginwrapper and nspluginwrapper-flash, but they are not working.  when i go to youtube.com i get the message that either i don't have javascript enabled or that i have an old version of flash player.

When i check the toos --> addons --> plugins in firefox it does show nspluginwrapper, so I think that is working, any idea what to try next?

thanks

Do you also see shockwave flash in that list of plugins?

psilo357

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Registered: 2008-10-31

Posts: 116

Re: [SOLVED] trying to install nspluginwrapper and flash

no, its not showing up...

psilo357

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Re: [SOLVED] trying to install nspluginwrapper and flash

alright, got it working.

It was my own fault it wasn't, i wasn't reading this step clearly

After installing nspluginwrapper-flash (WARNING! ~/.mozilla/plugins/ must be a dir, if it doesn't exist, create it), make sure you are not in a root console, and type in:

nspluginwrapper -v -a -i

and I was typing the command in at root console since i had just finished installing it, however, when login back to my user, it works fine.

thanks