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Flash Player and Ubuntu 64-Bit

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chazdraves

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Well, I imagine that the above makes it pretty clear. I've got Ubuntu on a 64-bit kernel and I'd really like to get Flash (or some alternative) running so I can actually make use of my internet connection. It seems everything relies on that ruddy program.

Thanks, folks!
- Chaz
 
The only flash site that I can recall visiting regularly is youtube, everything else works fine for me. And the fact that your kernel is 64-bit isn't the issue since it can run 32-bit binaries too, the problem is that you installed the 64-bit userland as well.

But you have two choices to get flash working:

1) install a 32-bit chroot and run a 32-bit browser with flash from there
2) install nspluginwrapper and let it proxy between the 32-bit flash plugin and your 64-bit browser.

The first option is more work but generally works better.
 
I know since you are using ubuntu64 you are trying to stay away from windows but you can always give this a shot.
Install "Wine" and do all the needed updates/.dll's downloads so you have the very latest release and all files needed to run windows apps in ubuntu and then install Internet Explorer 7.
Flash problem solved!!
I had the same problem but I went back to ubuntu 32bit or x86 so I could get flash to work.
Well anyway I hope this helps..
 
Use wine to emulate flash and a windows browser. (could probably do firefox if you don't want to use IE)
 
Allrighty, I officially do not like this whole "subcribe to topic" bull... I had forgotten about this thread and never discovered you all had taken the time to respond because it wasn't listed under "my forums". Anyhow, my beef with the new forums aside...

Is there any downside to "nspluginwrapper" as opposed to running a true Flash 64-bit in Firefox?

Thanks, guys!
- Chaz
 
I've used nspluginwrapper with very little trouble. The only problem I had was the parent browser window defocusing when my focus was on the Flash element (which might even be a problem with 32-bit Flash). That's a very minor and simply cosmetic problem. Of course a true 64-bit Flash would be better, mostly for convenience and speed reasons, but as it stands there is no such thing. There's Gnash, but I think it only supports up to Flash 7 or so and I've never had much luck with it (it crashed my Firefox).

It's harder to get the 32-bit Firefox to work the way you want. I've had problems ranging from it starting with a different skin, to conflicting with my other 64-bit Firefox, and also broken fonts. Those are just a few hurdles of getting a 32-bit GTK program to run properly on your 64-bit system. You need to install a lot of 32-bit lib packages on your system to get it to work, as well. Everything has to be right, but if you find the right guide you can make it work. It's harder than nspluginwrapper, and not to mention less convenient, at least from my experience. Ever since, I have just used 32-bit Linux since 64-bit offers me no benefits.

I should mention that using 32-bit libs on a 64-bit system to run Firefox32 is different than running it from a chroot, but in my experience I have had even more troubles getting the chroot to work the way I wanted.
 
Is there any downside to "nspluginwrapper" as opposed to running a true Flash 64-bit in Firefox?
Click to expand...

It's an ugly hack that shouldn't be required, I installed it just to see if it worked and removed it like a week later because I realized that I didn't care about flash.
 
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