Native Flash Support

Stythys · 2009-03-20 22:40:31

I was reading the wiki page (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ins … _on_Arch64) and it gave a link to a package for adobe's alpha flash support, but it doesn't exist anymore. Anyone know what's up?

skottish · 2009-03-20 23:02:58

It's considered beta now and is in the repos.

Stythys · 2009-03-20 23:11:52

ok I installed the flashsupport package but in firefox it still says it's not installed. anything else I have to do to get firefox working?

skottish · 2009-03-20 23:14:46

libflashsupport is only to get sound out of OSSv4 from Flash. All you need to do is pacman -S flashplugin.

Stythys · 2009-03-20 23:15:52

sorry I meant flashplugin, yeah that's already installed

syth ~ > pacman -Qs flash
local/flashplugin 10.0.22.87-1
    Adobe Flash Player
local/libflashsupport 9.0.21.78-4
    Macromedia flash plugin support lib (OSS SSL)
local/libflashsupport-pulse 0-3
    libflashsupport-pulse adds pulseaudio sound
    support to the flash plugin

Last edited by Stythys (2009-03-20 23:16:28)

skottish · 2009-03-20 23:21:33

There's been more than one thread lately about people installing Flash (and Java) and having it not work like it should. For some reason the permissions aren't set properly on /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. Make sure the permissions are set for 755 (rwxr-xr-x) for that folder and all of it's contents.

Stythys · 2009-03-20 23:26:16

nothing =/

EDIT: ah, nvm, works. needed to edit the mozilla folder as well

Last edited by Stythys (2009-03-20 23:27:30)

litemotiv · 2009-03-22 11:24:38

skottish wrote:

libflashsupport is only to get sound out of OSSv4 from Flash. All you need to do is pacman -S flashplugin.

wouldn't it be better to name that libflashsupport-oss again, like it used to be in the aur? the new name seems a little confusing.

i also see libflashsupport now has icu as a dependency, which is an extra 21.5mb library, and there now is a 10mb openssl dependency. together that's 30mb of extra installs where you really only need the 9Kb libflashsupport.so file for oss support...

what's the designated place to ask or discuss these kinds of questions, bugs.arch?

skottish · 2009-03-23 00:04:20

litemotiv wrote:

i also see libflashsupport now has icu as a dependency, which is an extra 21.5mb library, and there now is a 10mb openssl dependency. together that's 30mb of extra installs where you really only need the 9Kb libflashsupport.so file for oss support...
what's the designated place to ask or discuss these kinds of questions, bugs.arch?

Wow, I didn't even notice that. I'm back on ALSA (booo! booo!) and haven't been paying attention to OSS stuff.

Yeah, it's best brought up in the bug tracker as a feature request. The interesting thing is that flashsupport.c only lists openssl as a dependency. Maybe icu is necessary for internationalization, but can it be a makedep?

// To compile and install flashsupport.c the following components are required:
//
// - a C compiler (gcc 4.03 is known to be working)
// - OpenSSL developer package and working user libraries (OpenSSL 0.9.8 is known to be working)
// - OSS (or ALSA) developer package and working users libraries (Linux 2.6.15 is known to be working)
// - sudo or root access to install the generated library to /usr/lib
//

ataraxia · 2009-03-23 00:24:24

Today's oss update (4.1_1051-3) rolls flash support back into the oss package, replacing/conflicting with the flashsupport libraries. +1 to much less confusion.

Arch Linux

#1 2009-03-20 22:40:31

Native Flash Support

#2 2009-03-20 23:02:58

Re: Native Flash Support

#3 2009-03-20 23:11:52

Re: Native Flash Support

#4 2009-03-20 23:14:46

Re: Native Flash Support

#5 2009-03-20 23:15:52

Re: Native Flash Support

#6 2009-03-20 23:21:33

Re: Native Flash Support

#7 2009-03-20 23:26:16

Re: Native Flash Support

#8 2009-03-22 11:24:38

Re: Native Flash Support

#9 2009-03-23 00:04:20

Re: Native Flash Support

#10 2009-03-23 00:24:24

Re: Native Flash Support

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