[Tfug] trouble playing flash video in firefox

[Matthew T. Eskes]

Jim

Thanks for that find. I'm going to download it and debianise it for
ubuntu.


On Sun, 2009-08-16 at 14:23 -0700, Jim March wrote:
> The BEST Linux flash I've ever run has been under my new 64bit Karmic
> install, running Adobe's "alpha" 64bit player and no nspluginwrapper.
> 
> Karmic by default wants to install 32bit flash and nspluginwrapper and
> it works like a turd.  I tried messing around with Gnash but it's just
> not ready yet.  So I tried flash64 and whoa, it works!  Perfectly.
> 
> There's a rumor floating around that Adobe doesn't want to ship a
> release-code 64bit flash until after it's ready for Mac/Win.  The
> flash64 I'm running now feels solid as a rock.
> 
> To install, probably the same in most recent Ubuntu64 flavors:
> 
> 1) Get rid of any existing flash-crap at the command line:
> 
> sudo apt-get purge flashplugin-nonfree gnash gnash-common
> mozilla-plugin-gnash nspluginwrapper swfdec-mozilla
> 
> 2) Go get the real 64bit flash player:
> 
> wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.32.18.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
> 
> 3) Unpack it:
> 
> tar zxvf libflashplayer-10.0.32.18.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
> 
> 4) Put the new player into the right place:
> 
> sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
> 
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