Now that Adobe has announced that they have no intention of being anything but evil, I realize that Flash can no longer be on my system. I’ve installed Gnash as an alternative and find that it works well on Youtube but am seeking to try lightspark instead and see if it might do better with newer formats of Flash. However, while ‘sudo zypper in lightspark’ installs the file with success, the supposed plug-in which is supposed to be available does not appear anywhere in Firefox. I can’t find it by searching with zypper either.
How does one go about installing lightspark’s Mozilla plug-in in Tumbleweed?
On 03/05/2012 02:56 PM, silverslimer wrote:
>
> Hi guys,
>
> Now that Adobe has announced that they have no intention of being
> anything but evil, I realize that Flash can no longer be on my system.
> I’ve installed Gnash as an alternative and find that it works well on
> Youtube but am seeking to try lightspark instead and see if it might do
> better with newer formats of Flash. However, while ‘sudo zypper in
> lightspark’ installs the file with success, the supposed plug-in which
> is supposed to be available does not appear anywhere in Firefox. I can’t
> find it by searching with zypper either.
>
> How does one go about installing lightspark’s Mozilla plug-in in
> Tumbleweed?
>
>
It’s in Packman Tumbleweed repo
I’ve copied the “description”:
lightspark - Cross-platform Flash player and browser plugin
Lightspark is an LGPL-3.0+ licensed Flash player and browser plugin
written in C++/C that runs on Linux. It aims to support Adobe’s newer
Flash formats and AVM2 virtual machine.
It’s what I’m after and I’ve installed it but the ‘plug-in’ part of it doesn’t install into Mozilla. I was mostly wondering how to enable the plug-in part of it.
It doesn’t. I can install gnash without a problem (and it works quite well with youtube) but there are sites which require compatibility with newer versions of Flash which, supposedly, are Lightspark’s specialty. I had read that a combination of Lightspark and Gnash are the best alternative to proprietary Adobe Flash installs (and I’d like to remove proprietary Flash).
For the first command (my openSUSE is in French btw)
Dépot: Packman
Nom: lightspark
Version: 0.5.3+git20120108-1.1
Arch: x86_64
Fabricant: PackMan :: Startseite
Installé: Oui
État: A jour
Taille une fois installé : 10,2 MiB
Résumé: Cross-platform Flash player and browser plugin
Description:
Lightspark is an LGPL-3.0+ licensed Flash player and browser
plugin written in C++/C that runs on Linux. It aims to support
Adobe’s newer Flash formats and AVM2 virtual machine.
For the second command:
S | Nom | Résumé | Type
–±-----------±-----------------------------------------------±------
i | lightspark | Cross-platform Flash player and browser plugin | paquet
Thanks for all of your help but I have finally decided that I would rather simply dispose of Flash completely on my computer. I figure that if Adobe wants to discontinue its support for Linux, I want to discontinue my support of their format by not allowing a Flash player of any sort to reside on my installation. From this point on, it’s HTML5 or bust for me.
Oh, btw, for poops and giggles I tried out Malcolm’s repository as well as the commands which had been suggested. For the commands, firefox and mozilla both did not appear in the list. As for using version 0.5.4 of lightpspark, it installed the plugin but it didn’t work nonetheless. It’s either Gnash or complete removal of Flash on my computer it seems. Luckily, Gnash does fairly well on YouTube.