Flash Player 10 on 11.1

[user]

i can’t guarantee that this will work for you, but it does for me (and
i just went from Flash 9 to 10 a couple of days ago, and it STILL works)…

see this posting and follow it, exactly…EXCEPT–see my note below
this link:

http://forums.opensuse.org/applications/412367-adobe-flash-player.html#post1971902

NOTE:

when you go to Adobe <http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/?promoid=BUIGP>
you will find that they no longer offer a “debug version” as specified
in the forum post…a couple of days ago i downloaded the version
called “tar.gz for linux” which resulted in a downloaded file named
“install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz” which has inside the 9.7 MB
file named “libflashplayer.so” and a “flashplayer-installer” file
which i ignored as directed in the forum posting…

should work…does here…if it does not there then you have worse
problems than a flash that does not work…

good luck…

–
brassy
CAVEAT: The author of this posting does not warrant the accuracy,
completeness, legality, or usefulness of its content and is not
responsible for consequences resulting from its use.

[srschifano]

You could try using the alpha version of the 64-bit flash plugin. I’ve been using it since last december, and it works about as well the 32-bit plugin does.

To get it working:

1. Remove all installed flash related packages in YaST software management.
2. download the plugin here
3. Extract the plugin, and place a copy of it in /usr/lib64/browser-plugins
4. Restart firefox. Check that firefox sees the plugin by looking in the Add-ons.

IMO, it sounds like the problem you are having has to do with the plugin wrapper. Before the 64-bit version of the plugin came out, I was constantly fighting with the wrapper to get flash working.

[nthread]

Thank you so much, srschifano! That worked for me! Now I can watch countless hours of funny YouTube videos again! Though, I’m still curious as to why the flash player/nspluginwrapper from the repos didn’t work… oh well.

[srschifano]

@nthread

Though, I’m still curious as to why the flash player/nspluginwrapper from the repos didn’t work… oh well.

There are probably tons of reasons why the wrapper doesn’t work. It is, after all, a wrapper designed to get a finicky plug-in of one architecture to work on another. The possibilities for the whole thing breaking are great.

I am happy to assist!

[marer13]

I’ve got some problems with flash as well.
On some websites the sound is very weird (when I watch videos in flash) whereas on some it is fine.
I tried Konqueror and it is the same…

[caf4926]

Some have found removing libflashsupport fixes it.

[oldcpu]

@nthread

#  | Alias                    | Name                                    | Enabled | Refresh
---+--------------------------+-----------------------------------------+---------+--------
1  | KDE:KDE4:Community       | KDE:KDE4:Community                      | Yes     | Yes
2  | KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop | KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop                | Yes     | Yes
3  | KDE:Qt                   | KDE:Qt                                  | Yes     | Yes
4  | Libdvdcss repository     | Libdvdcss repository                    | Yes     | Yes
5  | My_Downloaded_RPMs       | My Downloaded RPMs                      | Yes     | Yes
6  | NVIDIA Repository        | NVIDIA Repository                       | Yes     | Yes
7  | Packman Repository       | Packman Repository                      | Yes     | Yes
8  | devel:gcc                | devel:gcc                               | Yes     | Yes
9  | home:Akoellh             | home:Akoellh                            | Yes     | Yes
10 | home:cfeck               | home:cfeck                              | Yes     | Yes
11 | home:deanjo13            | home:deanjo13                           | Yes     | Yes
12 | home:dgege:g15tools      | home:dgege:g15tools                     | Yes     | Yes
13 | home:nesnomis:games      | home:nesnomis:games                     | Yes     | Yes
14 | openSUSE 11.1-0          | openSUSE 11.1-0                         | Yes     | No
15 | openSUSE:Factory:Contrib | openSUSE:Factory:Contrib                | Yes     | Yes
16 | repo                     | openSUSE BuildService - Wine CVS Builds | Yes     | Yes
17 | repo-debug               | openSUSE-11.1-Debug                     | No      | Yes
18 | repo-non-oss             | openSUSE-11.1-Non-Oss                   | Yes     | Yes
19 | repo-oss                 | openSUSE-11.1-Oss                       | Yes     | Yes
20 | repo-source              | openSUSE-11.1-Source                    | No      | Yes
21 | repo-update              | openSUSE-11.1-Update                    | Yes     | Yes
22 | repo_1                   | VideoLan Repository                     | Yes     | Yes
23 | security:privacy         | security:privacy                        | Yes     | Yes

With a list of repos that large, I would be very surprised if there are not many things that do not work. IMHO such a large repos list is a recipe for non-functionality.

I typically recommend ONLY OSS, Non-OSS, Update and Packman repos.

[Robertple4]

@srschifano

You could try using the alpha version of the 64-bit flash plugin. I’ve been using it since last december, and it works about as well the 32-bit plugin does.

To get it working:

1. Remove all installed flash related packages in YaST software management.
2. download the plugin here
3. Extract the plugin, and place a copy of it in /usr/lib64/browser-plugins
4. Restart firefox. Check that firefox sees the plugin by looking in the Add-ons.

IMO, it sounds like the problem you are having has to do with the plugin wrapper. Before the 64-bit version of the plugin came out, I was constantly fighting with the wrapper to get flash working.

I had no sound from Youtube or some games in Facebook. The 64 bit plugin solved the problem. Thanks to all.

Regards
Rob