“We have temporarily closed the Labs program of Flash Player 10 for 64-bit Linux, as we are making significant architectural changes to the 64-bit Linux Flash Player and additional security enhancements.”
Blah, blah, blah, then it gives a link to a forum that never comes up.
Any word? What is the story on 64-bit flash for openSuse. It’s always been notoriously difficult to set up. Or has that changed?
I am running openSUSE 11.3 64-bit Gnome. My Firefox browser Add-ons has Shockwave Flash 10.1.r85. My /usr/lib64/browser-plugins folder has a file called “npwrapper.libflashplayer.so”. Should I delete or uninstall this file before downloading and installing the Preview 2 version dated Sept. 27from Adobe/Macromedia website?
Look forward to hearing from you soon. Thanks a lot for your help.
The “npwrapper.libflashplayer.so” was installed as part of the system or perhaps maybe after an update after installation. If you want to use the “Square” preview release of adobe flash, which takes advantage of 64-bit systems, you need to manually put it in. As it is just a preview version, the system will not alert you of updates, unlike the system installed npwrapper version.
I suggest you try this first:
1.) download the tar.gz package from adobe.
2.) uncompress the file to get “libflashplayer.so”
3.) copy the libflashplayer.so to your home directory under .mozilla/plugins/
4.) restart firefox and type “about:plugins” and see what it says about the flash player driver it is using.
If it’s still using the npwrapper version, you can then try to remove it and reboot.
Try installing the preview 2 version first and leave everything as is.
1.) download the 64-bit tar.gz from adobe
2.) untar to get the libflashplayer.so file
3.) copy the libflashplayer.so file to your home directory under .mozilla/plugins/ (which is supposed to override default mozilla settings)
4.) restart firefox
You then check if firefox loads the preview2 version instead of npwrapper. (Try putting “about: plugins” in firefox).
If you’ve got the npwrapper still, then you can remove it safely so firefox will be forced to use ./mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
Thanks for your reply. Regarding your Step# 3, in my PC the folder Home/.mozilla does NOT have /plugins. It only has .firefox and within .firefox there’s no “libflashplayer.so” file. Hence, I went looking inside root and found the existing “libflashplayer.so” file located in root/usr/lib/browser-plugins.
Should I delete this existing “libflashplayer.so” file in “browser-plugins” sub-directory, before following your Steps #1-4 in your post above?
The libflashplayer.so referred to in #3 would be the file resulting from step #2.
Kindly verify the contents of your /home directory. There should be a .mozilla directory there.
Do this:
cd /home/taytong888/.mozilla
ls -al
output will show directory listing of present working directory. If you dont see a folder named “plugins” there, by all means, please create the folder.
mkdir plugins
At this point, you now have a “plugins” folder inside /home/taytong888/.mozilla/
You can then copy the libflashplayer.so you just unzipped in Step #2 inside the plugins folder you just created, like so:
{Assuming you unzipped the file at /home/tayton888/Downloads/}
Thank you very much! Your method works! I got the latest Preview version 2 installed. I can see flash video alright, but cannot hear any sound through my Logitech USB headset. I will need to look into this problem.
PS: Looking at Firefox’s Add-ons window, I saw both the new Preview 2 version (Shockwave Flash 10.2.d161) and the existing version Shockwave Flash 10.1 r85. How do I remove the latter from Firefox, since I only saw the DISABLE button but not the UNINSTALL button?
Thank you for your tip on using YAST to uninstall a previous version of flash. I entered “flash” in the search box of Software Management and got “flash-player” Adobe Flash Plugin and standalone player, installed version 10.1.85.3-0.1.1-i586 from vendor openSUSE. Right click > Delete > Accept. Then Firefox Add-ons and about:plugins (about colon plugins) both confirm that the new/current version is 10.2.d161.
I solved the “no sound” problem as follows:
a. Make sure “libasound2” is installed;
b. Installed “pulseaudio” because somehow it was not yet installed;
c. YAST > Sound > USB Headset as card0 (priority 1) and make sure output volume is not muted;
d. From Thread# 446844 "No sound in Movies& Browsers (flash video) in Multimedia sub-forum and Post#14 by sundar_ima, I created the “.asoundrc” file in my Home directory,but use “card0” instead of card1 for my situation. Here’s the content of .asoundrc file:
pcm.!default {
type hw
card 0
}
ctl.!default {
type hw
card 0
}
I use flash square for firefox 3.6, openSUSE 11.2 64bit, KDE 4.4. But it’s not smooth, so I return to 10.1 beta for 32 bit and use it through nspluginwrapper
