New 64-bit Flash (11) available

[rifter]

Yesterday I was made aware that a new version of flash for the 64-bit platform was released.


http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flas ... hplayer11/

Since this should fix the security leak that has prevented Mageia from in good conscience providing a package for 64 bit flash in nonfree, I was wondering if this stance will change. I looked for a mention of this in the forums before posting and did not find one. I also have the following questions regarding flash:

If I manually install it, that is, if I download it and copy it to the proper place for 64-bit flash (which I haven't quite determined from my reading here) If I install the package when it comes out will the package overwrite it (as it should)?

Incidentally, it would have been nice if there had been a way to get the nonfree 32 bit flash installed from a repo into wherever it needed to be for nspluginwrapper to work. I tried to put the flash plugin where it belonged for that manually but it was not picked up and I didn't quite figure out what magic needed to happen to make that happen. In any case, since there is now a 64 bit flash I would rather avoid that altogether, but in case this happens again it would be nice to know how to make the 32 bit one work as well.

*EDIT* I just looked again and what I was told was wrong. I guess they did not release a LInux version of Flash 11 yet. Hopefully they will. In any case my questions still stand.

[doktor5000]

Yes, they have released a linux version of Flash 11 beta, already installed and working here.
You can also look at the bugreport to see when the package comes available:
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2146

For the other part: Have you read the Errata for Mageia 1, the instructions are in there:
http://www.mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id= ... repository

[isadora]

Flash 11 Beta installed here as well, and working without any troubles so far.

[John66]

I downloaded the 64-bit flash player plugin.
When I uncompressed the flashplayer11_b1_install_lin_64_071311.tar.gz, there was also a usr folder (with sub-folders and files in it), except the libflashplayer.so, that I was expecting to find in the tar archive. What should I do with that folder? Should I place the contents of it, under /usr directory?
The only thing I did (so far) was to just delete the old libflashplayer.so from /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins and copied there, the new one. Re-opened Firefox, went on
youtube and videos play fine, so it works OK.
So, what is the purpose of this usr folder?

Thanks in advance
John66

[doktor5000]

You get a dedicated KDE control center module and a menu entry for flash player settings, all those options you can set on right click on any flash plugin instance.
If you have a 32bit system, you can just copy the contents of the ./usr folder to /usr, but for a x86_64-system, you need to copy the contents from ./usr/lib to /usr/lib64.

[rifter]

Yes, they have released a linux version of Flash 11 beta, already installed and working here.
You can also look at the bugreport to see when the package comes available:
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2146

For the other part: Have you read the Errata for Mageia 1, the instructions are in there:
http://www.mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id= ... repository

I read and followed the errata. I installed nspluginwrapper and the 32 bit flash and that did not work. I don't know why it did not work, but Firefox did not pick up the flash plugin when I installed that, just like it didn't when I did it manually.

[rifter]

Okay, thank you for all your answers. I did get the new flash plugin downloaded and put it in /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins as suggested. It works perfectly. I also added myself to the cc list for that bug; thanks for that.
Some of the other threads on flash have suggested something like stickies be used so we can make answers easier to find and reduce reposting of the same question. I think that is a good idea. I also like the wiki. May I say I am really liking this new distribution and the community thereof. I look forward to getting to the point where I can help people with it as well.

[zugunder]

You get a dedicated KDE control center module and a menu entry for flash player settings, all those options you can set on right click on any flash plugin instance.
If you have a 32bit system, you can just copy the contents of the ./usr folder to /usr, but for a x86_64-system, you need to copy the contents from ./usr/lib to /usr/lib64.

Do you mean one should copy usr/bin, usr/lib and usr/share from the flash player 64bit archive to /usr/bin, /usr/lib64 and /usr/share respectively?

[doktor5000]

If you insert "the content of" then you got it.

... one should copy the contents of usr/bin, usr/lib and usr/share from the flash player 64bit archive to /usr/bin, /usr/lib64 and /usr/share respectively

Yes, that's exactly what i meant.

[zugunder]

Sorry, misspelled it...
Installed, seems to work .
Thank you.

[David_Batson]

You get a dedicated KDE control center module and a menu entry for flash player settings, all those options you can set on right click on any flash plugin instance.
If you have a 32bit system, you can just copy the contents of the ./usr folder to /usr, but for a x86_64-system, you need to copy the contents from ./usr/lib to /usr/lib64.

Not sure where the problem is here on my 64-bit system. I have the icon in KDE: Configure your desktop, but it's in Lost and Found. When I open that I get the error: "Cannot load library /usr/lib64/kde4/kcm_adobe_flashplayer.so: (libkutils.so4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)Cannot load library /usr/lib64/kde4/kcm_adobe_flashplayer.so: (libkutils.so4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)"

Other then that, flashplayer is working fine. I have libflashplayer.so located at /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/liblflashplayer.so with simlinks to it in /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/ and /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/

[doktor5000]

Yes, i had that also at first, when i copied the usr contents of the flashplayer archive directly to /usr.
When i copied /usr/lib/kde4/kcm_adobe_flash_player.so to /usr/lib64/kde4/kcm_adobe_flash_player.so it worked.
Here it is in the category "Not assigned" (at least this is the german translation) and it is working.

Can you please show the output of:
ls -la /usr/lib64/kde4/kcm_adobe_flash_player.so
Could it be that you renamed it? In your filenames there is an underscore missing between flash and player ...

[David_Batson]

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[david@localhost ~]$ ls -la /usr/lib64/kde4/kcm_adobe_flash_player.so
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 562680 Jul  1 00:20 /usr/lib64/kde4/kcm_adobe_flash_player.so*
[david@localhost ~]$

[doktor5000]

Do you have lib64kutils4-4.6.3-3.mga1 installed?

[David_Batson]

Before you posted I looked and saw I did not have libkutils4 installed, so I installed libkutils4 and rebooted. Still same error. I was about to reply with that when I saw you wrote about lib64kutils4, so I installed that as well.

Looks to be working now. Good catch!

Adobe Flash Player still is in Lost and Found, but now it opens without error AFAICT.

[doktor5000]

Adobe Flash Player still is in Lost and Found

Well, there ya go: http://bugs.adobe.com/flashplayer/

[ahmad]

FWIW, you can do without the kcm module, just don't copy it (both the kcm .so and .desktop files); this way flash will use /usr/bin/flash-player-properties, the GTK settings dialogue, which provides the same exact functionalities.

[zlatkodesign]

Thanks John66, for solving problem with flash plug-in for 64bit Mageia. Not only work with Firefox but with same technik (copy libflashplayer.so to plugins directory) it work in Opera to! Thanks again.

[doktor5000]

Thanks John66, for solving problem with flash plug-in for 64bit Mageia. Not only work with Firefox but with same technik (copy libflashplayer.so to plugins directory) it work in Opera to! Thanks again.

You should not install it manually, we already haveit packaged, have a look at:
viewtopic.php?f=34&t=880

[zlatkodesign]

Where is Nonfree_Updates repository?
I learn something new by installing flash player by my self.

[doktor5000]

It is on all Mageia mirrors Have you already added a full set of repositories?
If yes, you just need to enable nonfree_release and nonfree_updates in MCC -> Software Management -> Configure media sources for install and update
If not, go to the same place, but click "Add" and then "Full set of sources" and then enable nonfree_release and nonfree_updates.

[zlatkodesign]

Doktor5000, thanks I find this settings.