Hi everybody!

I just installed OpenSuse 11.1 on my AMD Athlon 64 box and I'm
verifying that all applications run well. I am having problems with the
Flash Player, which does not seem to work at all. Each time I load a
page that contains flash stuff the browser tells me to download the
plugin, but I'm quite sure that it is already installed...

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me@home:~> zypper search flash
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...

S | Name                            | Summary    | Type      
--+---------------------------------+------------+-----------
i | flash-player                    | Adobe Fl-> | package   
| flash-player                    | Adobe Fl-> | srcpackage
i | flash-player                    | flash-pl-> | patch     
i | flash-plugin                    | Adobe Fl-> | package   
i | libflashsupport                 | Addition-> | package   
| libflashsupport                 | Addition-> | srcpackage
| libflashsupport-32bit           | Addition-> | package   
| libflashsupport-debuginfo       | Addition-> | package   
| libflashsupport-debuginfo-32bit | Addition-> | package   
i | pullin-flash-player             | Placehol-> | package   
| pullin-flash-player             | Placehol-> | srcpackage
| tvflash                         | Tool to -> | package   
| tvflash                         | Tool to -> | srcpackage
| tvflash-debuginfo               | Tool to -> | package   
| tvflash-debugsource             | Tool to -> | package 

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me@home:~> zypper info flash-player
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...

Repository: @System
Name: flash-player
Version: 10.0.22.87-0.1.1
Arch: i586
Vendor: openSUSE
Installed: Yes
Status: up-to-date
Installed Size: 18,7 M
Summary: Adobe Flash PlugIn and standalone Player
Description: 
This package contains Adobe's Flash Plugin for the supported Web
browsers in addition to a standalone flash player application.

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me@home:~> zypper lr
# | Alias        | Name                  | Enabled | Refresh
--+--------------+-----------------------+---------+--------
1 | repo         | NVIDIA Repository     | Yes     | Yes    
2 | repo-debug   | openSUSE-11.1-Debug   | Yes     | Yes    
3 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-11.1-Non-Oss | Yes     | No     
4 | repo-oss     | openSUSE-11.1-Oss     | Yes     | No     
5 | repo-source  | openSUSE-11.1-Source  | Yes     | Yes    
6 | repo-update  | openSUSE-11.1-Update  | Yes     | No     
7 | repo_1       | VideoLan Repository   | Yes     | Yes    
8 | repo_2       | Packman Repository    | Yes     | Yes    
9 | repo_3       | openSUSE Education    | Yes     | Yes    

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The only strange thing that I see is that it seems that the flash
player plugin I have installed corresponds to the i586 architecture,
which is not the correct one. Is this the problem ? Where can I get the
x64 based plugin ? What should I do to get flash work on firefox ?

Thanks a lot for your help,

Luis


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Did you add the packman repository? it's working for me very well


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Yes, as you may see in the output of "zypper -lr" you can see that I
have the Packman repository added to my list...

Best,

Luis


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From a su terminal


Code:
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    zypper in flash-player
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lgoster;1990789 Wrote: 
> 
> -----------------------------------------
> 
> me@home:~> zypper lr
> # | Alias        | Name                  | Enabled | Refresh
> --+--------------+-----------------------+---------+--------
> 1 | repo         | NVIDIA Repository     | Yes     | Yes    
> *2 | repo-debug   | openSUSE-11.1-Debug   | Yes     | Yes   * 
> 3 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-11.1-Non-Oss | Yes     | No     
> 4 | repo-oss     | openSUSE-11.1-Oss     | Yes     | No     
> *5 | repo-source  | openSUSE-11.1-Source  | Yes     | Yes   * 
> 6 | repo-update  | openSUSE-11.1-Update  | Yes     | No     
> **7 | repo_1       | VideoLan Repository   | Yes     | Yes   * *
> *8 | repo_2       | Packman Repository    | Yes     | Yes    *
> 9 | repo_3       | openSUSE Education    | Yes     | Yes    

IMHO having Videolan and Packman both active is just begging for
trouble. I recommend you remove videolan ASAP from your active repos
list.  And I recommend you replace all videolan packaged apps with
Packman packaged apps (with exception of libdvdcss)

Why do you have source and debug as repos?  Is there something specific
you are trying to do?  Unless you are a developer, or unless you are a
user with a very specific purpose, then IMHO you should remove those. 
What immediate benefit are they bringing to you?  Don't just add a repos
blindly. 

Reference the "Education" repos, I recommend you put that to inactive.
You can make it active BRIEFLY if it has a download you need. Else you
could install an app from there, which might conflict with an app
packaged by Novell/SuSE-GmbH, and you will have no idea that has
happened.

Blindly adding repositories with out understanding the consequence has
to be one of the bigger mistakes that new users to openSUSE Linux make.


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Thanks a lot for your help. I did not know all these details about the
repositories. I'll try your recommendations this afternoon when I come
back home.

Best,

Luis


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Hi everybody!

It's me again! I just tried all the recommendations you mentioned
above. 

1) I removed videolan repository and removed all packages from my
system whose vendor was videolan.
2) I'm currently only using the following repositories:

me@home:~> zypper lr
# | Alias        | Name                  | Enabled | Refresh
--+--------------+-----------------------+---------+--------
1 | repo         | NVIDIA Repository     | Yes     | Yes    
2 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-11.1-Non-Oss | Yes     | No   
3 | repo-oss     | openSUSE-11.1-Oss     | Yes     | No    
4 | repo-update  | openSUSE-11.1-Update  | Yes     | Yes    
5 | repo_2       | Packman Repository    | Yes     | Yes    
6 | repo_3       | openSUSE Education    | No      | Yes 

I installed the flash player using

zypper install flash-player

But flash still does not work. Keep in mind that I have an x64 based
architecture. I have opensuse on an i386 and the flash-player package
works without problems. However, on the x64 architecture the
flash-player package blocks the system so as that I have to reboot the
system (but turning off the system). I even cannot change to text mode
to try to kill firefox.

As I told you, it seems that when I do

zypper install flash-player

the i586 version is installed. I tried manually do find the flash
package in the packman repository but I only found it in the i586 based
architecture, but not the x64 one.

Currently I'm using 'gnash' but it does not support some of the
funcionalities flash has.

Has anyone suceeded to install flash on an x64 based architecture ? Can
you please tell me the output of the following instructions on your x64
based system ?

zypper search flash | grep ^i
zypper info `zypper search flash | grep ^i | awk '{print $3}'`

Thanks!

Luis


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Do you have nspluginwrapper installed


Code:
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    zypper in nspluginwrapper
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Suse is using the 32bit version you have 2 ways of doing it you can
check with nspluginwrapper and load the 32bit. Or change firefox to
32bit.

I've confirmed what you found non-oss seems to be the repo with it on
but only i586. There is a alpha 64bit which works as well as any of the
flash stuff does on linux. Surprised it is not on the build service
though.

'PluginDoc: Linux (x86_64)'
(http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux-amd64.html#flash)

I can't exactly remember how to list what nspluginwrapper is using but
I suspect if about:plugins isn't showing you need to add it as the above
doc.


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Up until last October, the Flash plugin was only available for x86
(32-bit) systems. For 64-bit systems, this usually meant that in order
to run Flash on websites, one would need to use a 32-bit browser, or a
64-bit browser with a 32-bit wrapper.

From what I recall, the flash plugin available in the OpenSUSE
repositories did most of the dirty work to get it to work on a 64-bit
system.  The problem was, these somewhat hacked solutions could cause
system instability, and would occasionally not work.

Last October, Adobe released a 64-bit alpha version of the plugin that
works natively in 64-bit browsers without the need for any wrappers. 
You can download the latest release of the plugin here:
'Adobe Labs - Downloads: Flash Player 10'
(http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html)

Even though this is an alpha version of the plugin, I personally
haven't had any more or less problems with it than I have had with the
plugin in the past.  

If you want to use this version:
1. Remove the 32-bit version installed from the repos.
2. Download the file from the link above.
3. Extract the "libflashplayer.so" file
4. As root, copy it to /usr/lib64/browser-plugins.
5. Restart your browsers.


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Hi everybody!

Thanks a lot for your help. By installing the nspluginwrapper package
the flash-player has begun to work properly!

Best,

Luis


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lgoster;1991877 Wrote: 
> Hi everybody!
> 
> Thanks a lot for your help. By installing the nspluginwrapper package
> the flash-player has begun to work properly!
> 
> Best,
> 
> Luis

We got you sorted in the end!


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Thank you guys.
You guys are a real help.
I was having the same problem. and could solve it by reading the
thread.


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@ srschifano and FeatherMonkey - Many thanks for this pointer; I've got
the alpha installed now. Nice to be able to see Flash content at last!


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I just installed Suse 11.4 and downloaded the
flashplayer_square_p2_64bit_linux_092710.tar. Once that was installed in
/usr/lib64/browser-plugins, 64 bit Firefox ran Flash fine! Thanks for
the proper directory to install it in!!!


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