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toxygen

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Registered: 2008-08-22

Posts: 713

New flash player!

Seems adobe released the final version 10 of flash player today

http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS3225467354.html

Welcome to the future. Linux is now a first-class desktop operating system citizen. Adobe today released version 10 of its Adobe Flash Player, available now in a variety of convenient packaging formats for Linux, as well as other popular desktop operating systems.

Once upon a time, desktop Linux was a second-class citizen, where Flash was concerned. As recently as 2007, Linux users waited six months for Flash 9 to arrive.

Now, while Microsoft appears bent on leaving Linux users behind on Silverlight technology, its Flash alternative, Adobe has made Linux an equal player. It proudly boasts that "Flash Player content reaches over 98 percent of Internet-enabled desktops," while "80 percent of online videos worldwide are viewed using Adobe Flash technology." It further claims that Flash 9 achieved a 90 percent penetration on Internet-enabled desktops in fewer than nine months.

and the feature list:

Touted Flash 10 features, as described by Adobe, include:

    * New expressive features and visual performance improvements
    * New support for custom filters and effects, native 3D transformation and animation, advanced audio processing, and GPU hardware acceleration
    * More text layout options
    * Custom filters, blend modes, and fills to animate effects or change the effect on rich media content at runtime

so i did yaourt -G flashplugin  on my local folder, commented out the mdsums, changed the file name to the new adobe tar.gz, and everything went fine.  Hopefully the extra rep will have it updated, but I thought you guys would want to know

The version I downloaded just now was 10.0.12.36

Last edited by toxygen (2008-10-15 22:24:56)

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toxygen

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Registered: 2008-08-22

Posts: 713

Re: New flash player!

If you guys want to see my PKGBUILD here it is:

# $Id$
# Maintainer: Dale Blount <dale@archlinux.org>
# Parts Borrowed from Woody Gilk's <woody@archlinux.org> fp9 beta PKGBUILD
pkgname=flashplugin
pkgver=10.0.12.36
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Macromedia flash plugin for Netscape/Mozilla (nonfree)"
depends=('mozilla-common' 'libxt' 'gtk2')
replaces=('flashplugin-beta')
url="http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashplayer/"
license="custom"
source=(http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz
        adobe_eula.txt)
arch=('i686')
#md5sums=('a311fd97aa6c214f63dc089a20cf7a39'
#         '7d8638844b8be3e841ff29e0162577cb')

build() {
  mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
  install -m755 $startdir/src/install_flash_player_10_linux/libflashplayer.so \
    $startdir/pkg/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins || return 1
  #install license
  install -D -m644 $startdir/src/adobe_eula.txt \

I know I could just generate the md5sum's but I wanted it now

[edit ] i had to change pkgrel version back to 1, I use 2 so pacman/yaourt wont try to overwrite from the rep's unless i want it to

Last edited by toxygen (2008-10-17 01:09:14)

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haxit

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From: /home/haxit

Registered: 2008-03-04

Posts: 1,247

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Re: New flash player!

Thanks a bunch.

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Xyne

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Registered: 2008-08-03

Posts: 6,965

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Re: New flash player!

Linux is now a first-class desktop operating system citizen.*

*unless you're using something other than i686 architecture, in which case you remain at the bottom of the caste system as far as Adobe is concerned

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haxit

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Registered: 2008-03-04

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Re: New flash player!

Linux is now a first-class desktop operating system citizen.*

*unless you're using something other than i686 architecture, in which case you remain at the bottom of the caste system as far as Adobe is concerned

Good point

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mrunion

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From: Jonesborough, TN

Registered: 2007-01-26

Posts: 1,938

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Re: New flash player!

Dang!  And I just installed x86_64 two nights ago!

Oh, well!

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robmaloy

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From: Germany

Registered: 2008-05-14

Posts: 263

Re: New flash player!

how is performance/stability?

still 100% CPU usage?

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Slug0

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Registered: 2008-07-22

Posts: 15

Re: New flash player!

Flash 10 seems to crash Firefox every time I try to set YouTube videos to fullscreen

Can't remember the betas doing that...

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: New flash player!

how is performance/stability?

still 100% CPU usage?

I'm on a AMD 6400+ processor, 64 bit, and Flash through nspluginwrapper. For a youtube video I'm averaging around 11% processor on one core. This is actually up from some of the betas (I was seeing around 6-8% before). Full screen I'm averaging around 55% of one core. In both instances the other core isn't doing a whole lot (< 3%).

Last edited by skottish (2008-10-16 18:03:20)

moljac024

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-01-29

Posts: 2,676

Re: New flash player!

Just change the description in the PKGBUILD. It's not Macromedia anymore

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