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Unblessed_Germ

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Registered: 2011-05-18

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[SOLVED] flash will not run

I've just moved to arch linux from Kubuntu, and I'm getting used to the new environment. I never had a problem with flash in kubuntu, so I don't know whats going on with why arch isn't working out on this.

I am using 64bit arch, and kde desktop, and the only problem I've having is with getting flash to work. I have installed the flashplugin from the multilib repo, and after a reboot it would not run in either firefox or konqueror.  It did at least seem to try running flash but failed in the end, so I installed the 32bit nvidia utils, as I have an nvidia graphics card, nothing new happened after a reboot. I then removed flashplugin and tryed gnash. With gnash it seemed to get further, instead of just a black blank where the video should be on youtube, I got an error message, and I had the controls at the bottom of the blank.

If there is more info needed to help, please tell me where to get and I will post it.

Thank you, in advance, for any help with this problem.

Last edited by Unblessed_Germ (2011-05-26 20:14:48)

George

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Registered: 2011-05-11

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Re: [SOLVED] flash will not run

You could try the 64bit pre-release package from the AUR [1] take a look at [2] for build instructions if you've never used the AUR before.
[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32072
[2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AU … g_packages

Unblessed_Germ

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Re: [SOLVED] flash will not run

Success!

Thank you for recommending that. I had my reservations about using the pre-release version as it wasn't listed as stable compared to installing the 32bit from the multilib repo, but it worked perfectly.