[MAQeia] Flashplayer Plugin (32 & 64-bits)
Posted: Jul 31st, '11, 13:46
This post provides the Most Asked Questions (and answers) for Mageia users for the Flashplayer plugins,
It is a summary of all the numerous discussions in the forum.
If you have some suggestions or if you find a mistake please post your suggestions here in the thread.
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IMPORTANT NOTE
Please don't use the original flash-plugin package directly from Adobe, this is discouraged and not supported.
Please always use distribution packages from Mageia repositories where available. You need to add or enable
the Mageia nonfree repository to be able to install the package flash-player-plugin.
Currently the latest Mageia package for flash-player-plugin is:
flash-player-plugin-11.2.202.460
Adobe Flashplayer
Native stable plugin from Adobe available in 32bit and x86_64 non-free repositories, named flash-player-plugin
See in Errata: http://www.mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=mageia1:errata#the_skeleton_adobe_flash_player_package_only_exists_in_the_nonfree_repository
If you have a KDE system, you should additionally install the -kde subpackage, so that you get an
entry in KDE's systemsettings, allowing you to change Flash Player settings nicely integrated into KDE.
Can be installed f.ex. with:
Stable Flashplayer plugin is the preferred solution.
Alternatives to Adobes Flashplayer plugin
Known issues with Flash
-- flash player crashing sometimes after browser or flash update
Please check if nspluginwrapper in installed. Remove it and try again without it.
-- error message dialog: cannot open library /usr/lib64/kde4/kcm_adobe_flash_player.so for the 64bit plugin
or /usr/lib/kde4/kcm_adobe_flash_player.so for the 32 bit plugin --
Please check that you have lib64kutils4 (64 bit system) or libkutils4 (32 bit system) installed
For a 64bit system and manual plugin install, check that the service file is in the right location:
cp /usr/lib/kde4/kcm_adobe_flash_player.so to /usr/lib64/kde4/kcm_adobe_flash_player.so
everything from usr/lib from adobe flashplayer tarball from should be copied to /usr/lib64
-- Link to test Flash and display version in browser --
This can be done directly at Adobe: http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/
or via https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player.html or at https://www.adobe.com/swf/software/flas ... _small.swf
or at https://helpx.adobe.com/de/flash-player/kb/flash-player-games-video-or.html
-- rarely video does not load --
Reload the page
-- no sound with flash --
check that you have libalsa-plugins-pulseaudio installed, needed also for 64bit installation + nspluginwrapper + 32bit Flashplayer plugin
for 64bit Flashplayer plugin on 64bit system check that you have lib64alsa-plugins-pulseaudio installed
-- video/system freezes sometimes --
Can be due to nspluginwrapper
For 32bit Flashplayer plugin, you can safely remove nspluginwrapper with
For 64bit system, you can only try one of the alternatives or install Flashplayer 11 beta (see above)
-- video stutters sometimes in fullscreen mode --
An user in the german Mageia forum reported that with the proprietary fglrx driver (and a Radeon HD6550) playback
stutters when in fullscreen mode. He reported that a workaround for this can be found in mozilla support:
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Can ... h%20videos
The two described steps there can be of help, although they are not recommended,
because when disabling hardware acceleration the CPU is used more and especially
for laptops this is a way to greatly reduce battery time and therefore runtime
Reference link: https://forums.mageia.org/de/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=209
-- other issues with fullscreen mode --
when switching to fullscreen, and the video window disappears, check if you can switch to it with Alt+Tab key combination
this happens sometimes with nspluginwrapper and/or with 3D desktop like Compiz or KDE desktop effects
-- video does not show in browser with totem plugin --
Totem plugin breaks really often, at least for Youtube, please change to another plugin for viewing flash content
-- how to check plugin version in browser --
for Firefox, enter about:plugins in adress bar, you should see an entry for Shockwave Flash,
the filename should say libflashplayer.so, you can also see the version and supported MIME types
At http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/ you can check for firefox ifyou have the latest version of the plugin,
this is important as there are often security-realted bugs for the Adobe Flashplayer plugin because it's so widespread
It is a summary of all the numerous discussions in the forum.
If you have some suggestions or if you find a mistake please post your suggestions here in the thread.
---
IMPORTANT NOTE
Please don't use the original flash-plugin package directly from Adobe, this is discouraged and not supported.
Please always use distribution packages from Mageia repositories where available. You need to add or enable
the Mageia nonfree repository to be able to install the package flash-player-plugin.
Currently the latest Mageia package for flash-player-plugin is:
flash-player-plugin-11.2.202.460
Adobe Flashplayer
Native stable plugin from Adobe available in 32bit and x86_64 non-free repositories, named flash-player-plugin
See in Errata: http://www.mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=mageia1:errata#the_skeleton_adobe_flash_player_package_only_exists_in_the_nonfree_repository
If you have a KDE system, you should additionally install the -kde subpackage, so that you get an
entry in KDE's systemsettings, allowing you to change Flash Player settings nicely integrated into KDE.
Can be installed f.ex. with:
- Code: Select all
urpmi flash-player-plugin-kde
Stable Flashplayer plugin is the preferred solution.
Alternatives to Adobes Flashplayer plugin
- pepperflash plugin (aka Flash plugin maintained by Google and bundled with Chrome) which can also be used with Firefox
- minitube which is a standalone youtube player (not a browser plugin) and does not use flash player
- for some websites, you can switch/opt-in to HTML5, like for youtube: http://www.youtube.com/html5
- Shumway which basically renders Flash content via HTML5
- copy URL from Flash video, open with a media player like VLC -> menu File -> open URL from clipboard
The latter alternative also requires vlc-plugin-lua to be installed - lightspark, an open-source flash plugin - development seems to have stalled in 2013
- gnash, the GNU flash player - development seems to have stalled in 2011
Known issues with Flash
-- flash player crashing sometimes after browser or flash update
Please check if nspluginwrapper in installed. Remove it and try again without it.
-- error message dialog: cannot open library /usr/lib64/kde4/kcm_adobe_flash_player.so for the 64bit plugin
or /usr/lib/kde4/kcm_adobe_flash_player.so for the 32 bit plugin --
Please check that you have lib64kutils4 (64 bit system) or libkutils4 (32 bit system) installed
For a 64bit system and manual plugin install, check that the service file is in the right location:
cp /usr/lib/kde4/kcm_adobe_flash_player.so to /usr/lib64/kde4/kcm_adobe_flash_player.so
everything from usr/lib from adobe flashplayer tarball from should be copied to /usr/lib64
-- Link to test Flash and display version in browser --
This can be done directly at Adobe: http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/
or via https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player.html or at https://www.adobe.com/swf/software/flas ... _small.swf
or at https://helpx.adobe.com/de/flash-player/kb/flash-player-games-video-or.html
-- rarely video does not load --
Reload the page
-- no sound with flash --
check that you have libalsa-plugins-pulseaudio installed, needed also for 64bit installation + nspluginwrapper + 32bit Flashplayer plugin
for 64bit Flashplayer plugin on 64bit system check that you have lib64alsa-plugins-pulseaudio installed
-- video/system freezes sometimes --
Can be due to nspluginwrapper
For 32bit Flashplayer plugin, you can safely remove nspluginwrapper with
- Code: Select all
urpme -a nspluginwrapper
For 64bit system, you can only try one of the alternatives or install Flashplayer 11 beta (see above)
-- video stutters sometimes in fullscreen mode --
An user in the german Mageia forum reported that with the proprietary fglrx driver (and a Radeon HD6550) playback
stutters when in fullscreen mode. He reported that a workaround for this can be found in mozilla support:
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Can ... h%20videos
The two described steps there can be of help, although they are not recommended,
because when disabling hardware acceleration the CPU is used more and especially
for laptops this is a way to greatly reduce battery time and therefore runtime
Reference link: https://forums.mageia.org/de/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=209
-- other issues with fullscreen mode --
when switching to fullscreen, and the video window disappears, check if you can switch to it with Alt+Tab key combination
this happens sometimes with nspluginwrapper and/or with 3D desktop like Compiz or KDE desktop effects
-- video does not show in browser with totem plugin --
Totem plugin breaks really often, at least for Youtube, please change to another plugin for viewing flash content
-- how to check plugin version in browser --
for Firefox, enter about:plugins in adress bar, you should see an entry for Shockwave Flash,
the filename should say libflashplayer.so, you can also see the version and supported MIME types
At http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/ you can check for firefox ifyou have the latest version of the plugin,
this is important as there are often security-realted bugs for the Adobe Flashplayer plugin because it's so widespread