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Re: Flash proplem

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On 14/03/17 10:58, Maureen L Thomas wrote:
> I un-installed gnash and I no longer have any flash in Plugins and the
> adobe page stated it needed a plugin to use it.  I also re-installed
> flash-nonfree but still no reading in Plugins.

What is the output of:

ls -al /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/

I also just tried purging and reinstalling, both with 3.6 (jessie 
package) and 3.7 (sid), and found them to be horribly broken. The 
problem is that, when Adobe updates the plugin, the flashplugin-nonfree 
installation process is broken until the maintainer Bart Martens updates 
some remote configuration files to enable the new version.

I was able to get it working with the following manual installation of 
the Adobe .tar.gz. I use this method because it is what the 
flashplugin-nonfree installer does, and I hope that when the package 
installer is working, my manual installation will be compatible. I hope 
that this approach minimises mess.

Download page:
https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

Download the .tar.gz (should be the same as this link):
https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/download/?installer=FP_24.0_for_Linux_64-bit_(.tar.gz)_-_NPAPI&sType=5504&standalone=1

For the next steps, you need to be root.

Extract the library (change the path to where you downloaded the .tar.gz):

tar zxfO /path/to/flash_player_npapi_linux.x86_64.tar.gz 
libflashplayer.so > /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so

Fix permissions:

chmod 644 /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so

Register the plugin:

update-alternatives --quiet --install 
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/flash-mozilla.so flash-mozilla.so 
/usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so 50

Now see if it works in Tools / Add-ons / Plugins and:
http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

For future manual updates, only the tar command is required.

Kind regards,

-- 
Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz>
Director
Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/>
New Zealand

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Flash proplem Maureen L Thomas <silverorb@verizon.net> - 2017-03-12 21:10 +0100
  Re: Flash proplem Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2017-03-12 23:10 +0100
    Re: Flash proplem Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2017-03-13 22:10 +0100
      Re: Flash proplem Maureen L Thomas <silverorb@verizon.net> - 2017-03-13 23:00 +0100
        Re: Flash proplem Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2017-03-14 00:10 +0100
          Re: Flash proplem Maureen L Thomas <silverorb@verizon.net> - 2017-03-14 00:30 +0100
        Re: Flash proplem Maureen L Thomas <silverorb@verizon.net> - 2017-03-14 00:40 +0100
          Re: Flash proplem Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2017-03-14 02:30 +0100

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