How to enable Lighspark [DONE]

[geraldow]

Hello all!

I have Mageia 4 XFCE 64 bits, Firefox 24.4.0 ESR and Lightspark 0.7.2 installed. I don't know how to get Lightspark working, can anyone help me with that? I saw some instructions for debian-like distributions, but it didn't work for Mageia. Following these I tried to use de comand "update-alternatives" (update-alternatives --config flash-mozilla.so), but I don't know the exact sintax.

If anyone can help me I will be glad.

And sorry for my poor English, it's not my first language.

Thanks!

[doktor5000]

Please show the output of

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rpm -qa | grep -e flash -e lightspark | sort


Also, in Firefox under about:plugins do you still see Flash plugin from Adobe?

From what I can see flash-player-plugin will be automatically uninstalled when installing lightspark-mozilla-plugin

[doktor5000@Mageia4 SRPMS]$ sudo LC_ALL=C urpmi lightspark lightspark-mozilla-plugin
The following packages have to be removed for others to be upgraded:
flash-player-plugin-11.2.202.350-1.mga4.nonfree.x86_64
(due to conflicts with lightspark-mozilla-plugin)
flash-player-plugin-kde-11.2.202.350-1.mga4.nonfree.x86_64
(due to unsatisfied flash-player-plugin == 11.2.202.350-1.mga4.nonfree,
due to unsatisfied flash-player-plugin == 11.2.202.350-1.mga4.nonfree) (y/N) y
To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going to be installed:
Package Version Release Arch
(medium "Core Release")
gnash 0.8.10 9.mga4 x86_64 (suggested)
lib64agg2 2.5 13.mga4 x86_64 (suggested)
lib64gnash0 0.8.10 9.mga4 x86_64 (suggested)
lib64gtkglext-1.0_0 1.2.0 17.mga4 x86_64 (suggested)
lib64lightspark0 0.7.2 7.mga4 x86_64
lib64pangox1.0_0 0.0.2 3.mga4 x86_64 (suggested)
lightspark 0.7.2 7.mga4 x86_64
lightspark-mozilla-plugin 0.7.2 7.mga4 x86_64
lightspark-pulse 0.7.2 7.mga4 x86_64 (suggested)
14MB of additional disk space will be used.
3.3MB of packages will be retrieved.
Proceed with the installation of the 9 packages? (Y/n) Y


ftp://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirr ... x86_64.rpm
ftp://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirr ... x86_64.rpm
ftp://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirr ... x86_64.rpm
ftp://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirr ... x86_64.rpm
ftp://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirr ... x86_64.rpm
ftp://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirr ... x86_64.rpm
ftp://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirr ... x86_64.rpm
ftp://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirr ... x86_64.rpm
installing lightspark-0.7.2-7.mga4.x86_64.rpm lightspark-mozilla-plugin-0.7.2-7.mga4.x86_64.rpm lib64gtkglext-1.0_0-1.2.0-17.mga4.x86_64.rpm lib64agg2-2.5-13.mga4.x86_64.rpm lib64gnash0-0.8.10-9.mga4.x86_64.rpm lib64lightspark0-0.7.2-7.mga4.x86_64.rpm gnash-0.8.10-9.mga4.x86_64.rpm lib64pangox1.0_0-0.0.2-3.mga4.x86_64.rpm from /var/cache/urpmi/rpms
Preparing... #####################################################################################################################################
1/9: lib64lightspark0 #####################################################################################################################################
2/9: lib64pangox1.0_0 #####################################################################################################################################
3/9: lib64gtkglext-1.0_0 #####################################################################################################################################
4/9: lib64agg2 #####################################################################################################################################
5/9: lib64gnash0 #####################################################################################################################################
6/9: gnash #####################################################################################################################################
7/9: lightspark #####################################################################################################################################
8/9: lightspark-mozilla-plugin
#####################################################################################################################################
removing package flash-player-plugin-kde-11.2.202.350-1.mga4.nonfree.x86_64
1/2: removing flash-player-plugin-kde-11.2.202.350-1.mga4.nonfree.x86_64
#####################################################################################################################################
removing package flash-player-plugin-11.2.202.350-1.mga4.nonfree.x86_64
2/2: removing flash-player-plugin-11.2.202.350-1.mga4.nonfree.x86_64
#####################################################################################################################################


ftp://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirr ... x86_64.rpm
installing lightspark-pulse-0.7.2-7.mga4.x86_64.rpm from /var/cache/urpmi/rpms
Preparing... #####################################################################################################################################
9/9: lightspark-pulse #####################################################################################################################################

After installing it you only have to restart Firefox and the plugin will be active, just checked.

[doktor5000]

Although lightspark may not work on all videos, check e.g. https://github.com/lightspark/lightspar ... te-Support
Just checked on youtube and it wouldn't properly play any video I've tested.

[geraldow]

Thank you, doctor5000!

Here is the output:

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bash-4.2$ rpm -qa | grep -e flash -e lightspark | sort
lib64lightspark0-0.7.2-7.mga4
lightspark-0.7.2-7.mga4
lightspark-mozilla-plugin-0.7.2-7.mga4
lightspark-pulse-0.7.2-7.mga4


I don't see the Flash plugin from Adobe under about:plugins in Firefox, only Lightspark.
And, yes, the flash plugin from Adobe was automatically removed when I installed Lightspark.

I don't know if Lightspark is the best alternative, if you have another one, please tell me!
Thank you!

[doktor5000]

As I've shown you above, there's not more you need to do - Chromium even asked me to allow Lightspark to run when opening some video - chromium was not even restarted.

For an alternative, either do not use Flash, or use HTML5 - sorry but it's simple as that.
If you need Flash, there is no real alternative to Adobe Flash Player ... well, you could basically first download each video,
and then play it back using vlc, xbmc or mplayer or something like that.

[geraldow]

As I've shown you above, there's not more you need to do - Chromium even asked me to allow Lightspark to run when opening some video - chromium was not even restarted.

For an alternative, either do not use Flash, or use HTML5 - sorry but it's simple as that.
If you need Flash, there is no real alternative to Adobe Flash Player ... well, you could basically first download each video,
and then play it back using vlc, xbmc or mplayer or something like that.

doktor5000, I've reached the same conclusion. Lighspark doesn't work and there is no real alternative for Adobe flash plugin, as you said.

Thank you for trying to help!

Best regards!

[doktor5000]

Please mark the thread accordingly by editing the topic of the first post and prefix it by [DONE], thanks