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Chance

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[Solved] Error installing Flash 64bit from AUR

I tried installing the 64bit flash from here :http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=21601, using 'yaourt -S flashplugin-alpha-64 10.0.d20.7-3'

It will say:

Downloading 10.0.d20.7-3 PKGBUILD from AUR
Error: 10.0.d20.7-3 not found in AUR.

So i tried another method by downloading this tar file from http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs … .so.tar.gz

Then i untarred the file and on the desktop it shows 'libflashplayer.so'

So next i went to terminal, tried doing 'cd Desktop', followed by 'pacman -S libflashplayer.so', but it says i need to be root to do that. So i do 'su - ', and then 'cd Desktop', but it says '-bash: cd: Desktop: No such file or directory.'

How am i suppose to install flash64 bit? Thanks.

Last edited by Chance (2008-12-18 15:19:46)

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Re: [Solved] Error installing Flash 64bit from AUR

try /home/Desktop

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Chance

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Re: [Solved] Error installing Flash 64bit from AUR

it still doesn't work

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Re: [Solved] Error installing Flash 64bit from AUR

do you have yaourt installed?

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Chance

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Re: [Solved] Error installing Flash 64bit from AUR

yes. I've installed yaourt. Someone said in another forum that i might have forgotten to configure sudo? I don't specifically remember installing sudo. But does anyone know the wiki page for that? i can't seem to find it again now.

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Re: [Solved] Error installing Flash 64bit from AUR

I tried installing the 64bit flash from here :http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=21601, using 'yaourt -S flashplugin-alpha-64 10.0.d20.7-3'

It will say:

Downloading 10.0.d20.7-3 PKGBUILD from AUR
Error: 10.0.d20.7-3 not found in AUR.

should be just "yaourt -S flashplugin-alpha-64" no version needed
the error is telling you it cant find 10.0.d20.7-3 which is not a package.  did you get another error with the first part? or did  you see it building the package?

i like building it by hand, so i usually (in a folder on my /home) i do

mkdir flashplugin-alpha-64
cd flashplugin-alpha-64
yaourt -G flashplugin-alpha-64 (to get pKGBUILD and other files)
makepkg  (to build)
then install with yaourt -U [full package filename]

makes me feel like i'm in control

Last edited by toxygen (2008-12-18 04:56:50)

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Re: [Solved] Error installing Flash 64bit from AUR

You only need the first part:

yaourt -S flashplugin-alpha-64

pacman is complaining because it can't find the package 10.0.d20.7-3.

There's going to be an update to that package any time; It's out of date.

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toxygen

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Re: [Solved] Error installing Flash 64bit from AUR

You only need the first part:

yaourt -S flashplugin-alpha-64

pacman is complaining because it can't find the package 10.0.d20.7-3.

There's going to be an update to that package any time; It's out of date.

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Chance

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Re: [Solved] Error installing Flash 64bit from AUR

Thanks for the replies. I will definitely try it out. But i tried doing 'makepkg -s' once and it asked me for a password, in which it turned out it was not my root password. How do i fix that? Or should i just do 'makepkg'??

Last edited by Chance (2008-12-18 08:47:40)

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Re: [Solved] Error installing Flash 64bit from AUR

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

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Re: [Solved] Error installing Flash 64bit from AUR

You don't need to grab it from aur. Flashplugin for 64bit is in [testing], and it works nicely.

# pacman -U ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/testing/os/x86_64/flashplugin-10.0.d21.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz

Last edited by Mr.Elendig (2008-12-18 14:39:07)

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Re: [Solved] Error installing Flash 64bit from AUR

^^ Ditto

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Chance

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Re: [Solved] Error installing Flash 64bit from AUR

Awesome. Followed all those steps and it's working now. Thanks everyone.

aaaantoine

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Re: [Solved] Error installing Flash 64bit from AUR

You don't need to grab it from aur. Flashplugin for 64bit is in [testing], and it works nicely.

# pacman -U ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/testing/os/x86_64/flashplugin-10.0.d21.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz

I see that this package has moved to [extra] now.

Excellent.  I don't have to enable [testing].

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Re: [Solved] Error installing Flash 64bit from AUR

Please put architecture-specific questions in the right subforum .

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