Howto get Adobe Flash working in 64bit

[bmc5311]

Use a 32bit browser in chroot with the 32bit flash.

if i do it that (the chroot thing) - does it eliminate the need for nspluginwrapper? the problem i have is not being able to watch the mlb live streams (life long red sox fan, shoot me ...), when using the nsplugingwrapper i suspect that it (mlb) is looking for the file libflashplayer.so and it's finding npwrapper.libflashplayer.so and the mlb media player isn't smart enough to figure it out.

[craigevil]

yes using chroot you are using a 32bit browser and the 32bit flash plugin.

Take a look at "Using an IA32 chroot to run 32bit applications"
http://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.ph ... l#id292205

[bmc5311]

thanks for the info and the advice - i'll look into it.

[milomak]

good to know there's a reason for loss of flash

[cinch]

for setting up a 32bit chroot on amd64 or i386:
i just wrote this guide: http://sicnarf.com/articles/secure-flas ... debian.txt

the guide is still in a early version, but it should be enough for daily browsing. enjoy
i'm going to update it and try to streamline it for general usage.

[craigevil]

for setting up a 32bit chroot on amd64 or i386:
i just wrote this guide: http://sicnarf.com/articles/secure-flas ... debian.txt

the guide is still in a early version, but it should be enough for daily browsing. enjoy
i'm going to update it and try to streamline it for general usage.

First get rid of all of the sudo references, it is not setup by default on Debian.

I take it you find the Debian doc too complicated?
http://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.ph ... l#id292205

[cinch]

I take it you find the Debian doc too complicated?
http://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.ph ... l#id292205

that's a good guide, however i wouldn't necessarily recommend it for running flash.
the main issue i see, is mounting your home directory inside the chroot, running the browser as the same user.
thereby allowing access to your files, if there is a severe exploit in flash.

further, the commands use debian sid/unstable, whereas packages in testing are more likely to get patches quicker.

get rid of all of the sudo references, it is not setup by default on Debian.

just did a major rewrite. sudo is only used to launch or update the chroot browser, without asking for a password.

[nulltime]

Good day!
I have some problem...
I had install Adobe Flash Player from Adobe site, unpack and make symlinks
I maid this because flashplugin-nonfree dont work on my system
All in all, flashplayer work fine in Opera, but don't work in Iceweasel, don't seen in it's about:plugins
Iceweasel send to console this errs

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LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so [/emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so: wrong class ELF: ELFCLASS32]

Thanks!

My system: Debian squeeze 2.6.32-5 amd64

[henriavelabarbe]

HI,
I followed the installation notes from Wiki on a fresh Squeeze 64bit install, but I get this message :

Download done.
ERROR: checksum mismatch install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz
The Flash plugin is NOT installed.
More information might be available at:
http://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer

Did anyone got the same issue and maybe a solution ?

Regards,
Henri

[craigevil]

apt-get install flashplayer-mozilla from debian-multimedia.org will install all of the files needed to run flash in 64bit.

That was the whole point of the howto. Downloading from Adobe or any other way just complicates things.

BTW unstable gets updates before testing then usually 7-10 days later the update moves into testing, that is when testing isn't frozen like it is now.

[henriavelabarbe]

Hi,
I did try the plugin from multimedia, it works for most sites but not for metalink.oracle.com.
A non flash version of the site exists, but anyyway, it works in Fedora13.

The iceweasel from experimental and the ipc value change did not solve the issue.

[craigevil]

Hi,
I did try the plugin from multimedia, it works for most sites but not for metalink.oracle.com.
A non flash version of the site exists, but anyyway, it works in Fedora13.

The iceweasel from experimental and the ipc value change did not solve the issue.

Works just fine here.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8
Shockwave Flash
Filename /usr/lib/flashplayer-mozilla/libflashplayer.so
Plugin Version:
Plugin Description: Shockwave Flash 10.1 r82

[henriavelabarbe]

Works just fine here.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2. Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8
Shockwave Flash
Filename /usr/lib/flashplayer-mozilla/libflashplayer.so
Plugin Version:
Plugin Description: Shockwave Flash 10.1 r82

Do you use a 32bit browser? I'm talking about 64bit iceweasel.

Edit: Using chroot 32bit env worked for me, so I'll keep that as "temporary" solution

[jheaton5]

I seem to recall that Adobe does not support 64 bit flash anymore.

[craigevil]

I seem to recall that Adobe does not support 64 bit flash anymore.

Correct that is the point of the Howto. You either have to use nspluginwrapper or a 32bit chroot environment.

Installing flashplayer-mozilla from dmm installs all of the necessary packages for flash using nspluginwrapper.

The chroot method is a bit more detailed.