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BlueFightingCat

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From: Helsinki

Registered: 2007-12-22

Posts: 72

Flashplayer in Firefox 64

Hi,

I am having a real problem trying to get flash to work. I've followed the wiki several times but there's seems to be a problem with NSPlugin Viewer.

When I type:

nsplugginwrapper -i

I get the following error message:

*** NSPlugin Viewer  *** ERROR: libflashplayer.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
nspluginwrapper: no appropriate viewer found for libflashplayer.so

What does this mean and how do I fix it?

BFC

colnago

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From: Victoria, BC

Registered: 2004-03-25

Posts: 438

Re: Flashplayer in Firefox 64

Hi,

I have not had luck with the one from pacman, or with gnash, in firefox.  The AUR version works really nicely for me.  Try it out.

http://aur.archlinux.org/

Look for nspluginwrapper-flash

BlueFightingCat

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From: Helsinki

Registered: 2007-12-22

Posts: 72

Re: Flashplayer in Firefox 64

Hi,

I did download the packages from AUR. I still got the error message mentioned in my first post.

BFC

jacko

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Registered: 2007-11-23

Posts: 840

Re: Flashplayer in Firefox 64

nsplugginwrapper -i

its

nspluginwrapper -i

also, its as the other person mentioned, u need to install nspluginwrapper-flash for the flash library to be installed.

usage: nspluginwrapper [flags] [command [plugin(s)]]

   -h --help               print this message
   -v --verbose            flag: set verbose mode
   -a --auto               flag: set automatic mode for plugins discovery
   -l --list               list plugins currently installed
   -u --update             update plugin(s) currently installed
   -i --install [FILE(S)]  install plugin(s)
   -r --remove [FILE(S)]   remove plugin(s)

so once u install the nspluginwrapper and nspluginwrapper-flash packages, issue the command

nspluginwrapper -v -a -i

to automatically install any nspluginwrapper plugins

no appropriate viewer found for libflashplayer.so

I am guessing this means u didn't tell it where to install too, that why you need the -a switch.

Last edited by jacko (2008-01-19 11:20:00)

jacko

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Registered: 2007-11-23

Posts: 840

Re: Flashplayer in Firefox 64

if all of that is too hard, download yaourt, build that from AUR and then issue these commands into terminal after u install yaourt.

yaourt -S nspluginwrapper nspluginwrapper-flash
nspluginwrapper -v -a -i

BlueFightingCat

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From: Helsinki

Registered: 2007-12-22

Posts: 72

Re: Flashplayer in Firefox 64

Hi,

I tried your instructions (I had previously done as you said) but no success. It really seems that NSviewer is causing the problems. This is so despite using the "-a" option.

Any other ideas?

BFC

ganja_guru

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Registered: 2005-02-14

Posts: 464

Re: Flashplayer in Firefox 64

does your ~/.mozilla/plugins have the libflashplayer.so file? its needed for nspluginwrapper to work properly

BlueFightingCat

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From: Helsinki

Registered: 2007-12-22

Posts: 72

Re: Flashplayer in Firefox 64

Yes it does.

Do the permissions of the file have an affect? The file permission is:

-rwxr-xr-x

BFC

BlueFightingCat

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From: Helsinki

Registered: 2007-12-22

Posts: 72

Re: Flashplayer in Firefox 64

Hi,

Can anybody help with this. It's a really annoying problem.

Can anybody suggest how I go about diagnosing the problem.

Do I need to install Firefox 32 for this work???

BFC

Last edited by BlueFightingCat (2008-01-23 16:06:20)

colnago

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From: Victoria, BC

Registered: 2004-03-25

Posts: 438

Re: Flashplayer in Firefox 64

Hi,

I would check what happened when you built the packages, I seem to remember a missing dependency (maybe  lib32-pcre or lib32-alsa-lib).  Perhaps you need to rebuild and try again. 

You will need to rebuild after adding the right package.

Check the output for errors.

BlueFightingCat

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From: Helsinki

Registered: 2007-12-22

Posts: 72

Re: Flashplayer in Firefox 64

No thats not the problem. Both of the packages you mention are installed. And I have installed the nspluginwrapper package a number of times to try and get it to work.

Does it not have something to do with the "*** NSPlugin Viewer  *** ERROR"?

BFC

BlueFightingCat

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From: Helsinki

Registered: 2007-12-22

Posts: 72

Re: Flashplayer in Firefox 64

Hi,

I just re-installed nspluginwrapper and nspluginwrapper-flash using yaourt and then I ran nspluginwrapper -v -a -i and I get the following:

[timo@myhost ~]$ nspluginwrapper -v -a -i
Auto-install plugins from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
Looking for plugins in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
Install plugin /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
Auto-install plugins from /home/timo/.mozilla/plugins
Looking for plugins in /home/timo/.mozilla/plugins
Install plugin /home/timo/.mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so
Install plugin /home/timo/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

Everything seems to be ok but it still doesn't work. So I really don't know what the problem is.

BFC

jacko

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Registered: 2007-11-23

Posts: 840

Re: Flashplayer in Firefox 64

Hi,

I just re-installed nspluginwrapper and nspluginwrapper-flash using yaourt and then I ran nspluginwrapper -v -a -i and I get the following:

[timo@myhost ~]$ nspluginwrapper -v -a -i
Auto-install plugins from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
Looking for plugins in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
Install plugin /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
Auto-install plugins from /home/timo/.mozilla/plugins
Looking for plugins in /home/timo/.mozilla/plugins
Install plugin /home/timo/.mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so
Install plugin /home/timo/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

Everything seems to be ok but it still doesn't work. So I really don't know what the problem is.

BFC

if a reboot doesn't fix it then I have no idea. Maybe u would try asking at the nspluginwrapper website, since the error seems specific to there program. They may be able to tell u more about the error being generated.

other then that, it seems like maybe firefox isn't installed right and maybe that's why it doesn't know where the file is located. When was the last time u installed firefox and what version are u using?

my output is different then yours, maybe it isn't working after all.

$ nspluginwrapper -v -a -i
Auto-install plugins from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
Looking for plugins in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
Install plugin /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
  into /home/jasin/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
Auto-install plugins from /home/jasin/.mozilla/plugins
Looking for plugins in /home/jasin/.mozilla/plugins