Markus Thielmann - Comments for "Flash 10 Beta on Ubuntu Hardy"

jason@phantom-laptop:~$ sudo

jason@phantom-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfreebeta
Reading package lists... Done

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The only reason these days

The only reason these days why many of us stop from having fun in the online game world is because of the prevalence of bugs. However I must say that after the release of Adobe Flash player10 itself, things are looking much better than before and I have to say we can now experience the minutest of differences with ease and accurate precision. I guess no matter what all come, it be HTML 5 or whatever flash player will always have insurance!

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Do you really need another

Do you really need another reason? Microsoft have been trying to gain control of protocols since before Windows3.1 when they had their own version of TCP/IP.

Supporting openness only to yank out that support a few years later isn't exactly new to Microsoft.

This is a company that while claiming to be opensource friendly makes claims about 240+ patent infringments mortgage calculator, but then won't tell anyone what they actually are because of administration costs, instead preferring to goto the big fortune 500 companies and demand licenses for Linux installs.

A company that signs a deal with Novell that they won't sue each other, agrees to buy millions of $ of SuSe licenses from Novell only to have 2 employees including an intellectual property expert 'quit' Microsoft a month in advance (well a week for the ip expert) and join a puppet patent troll company that then turns around and sues both Novell and Redhat.

Where convicted of being an abusive monopoly by a US court, donated $30 million to the Clinton campaign and got a presidential pardon. Keeps getting antitrust after antitruct case brought against them in the EU and got fined in the billions.

So forgive me if I don't want to embrace a future where Microsoft are controlling the standards that run the internet.

Ah, Ubuntu's "awakening age"

Ah, Ubuntu's "awakening age" I remember it vividly. :)

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For 64 bit users see The

For 64 bit users see The easiest way to install Flash 10 on Ubuntu 64 bits

Thanks Markus This was the

Thanks Markus

This was the only way I could get flash working with ubuntu hardy 64 and firefox. Worked perfectly.

I figured out how it works.

I figured out how it works. The getlibs stuff did not work properly, so before you install the package (which is great, by the way. Thanks a lot!) you have to do the following (at least, it worked for me)

Install necessary libraries and applications (namely dpkg-architecture, which is in dpgk-dev)

sudo getlibs -p libnss3-1d
sudo getlibs -p libnspr4-0d
sudo apt-get install dpgk-dev

Remove downloads from previous attempts (the install script fails otherwise) and install the package.

sudo rm /var/cache/flashplugin-nonfreebeta/flashplayer10_install_linux*
sudo gdebi flashplugin-nonfreebeta_rc10.0.10.12ubuntu1_amd64.deb

Sorry for all my posts, someone remove them if possible? ;) And another point, I also like you captcha, simple, not unnerving and probably safe..

Launchapd Bug 272314 seems to

Launchapd Bug 272314 seems to be the same problem. Or somehow similar. However, I don't have any clue what this is about :)

Same problem on a fresh

Same problem on a fresh install of AMD64

RC2 is working now. For some

RC2 is working now. For some reasons there are some lib symlinks missing on Ubuntu Hardy 32bit with latest updates. I have seen a fix here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=924410&highlight=flash+10&page=2

Thanks so much!! This has

Thanks so much!! This has been such a hassle, you've fixed everything with FF3!

jason@phantom-laptop:~$ sudo

jason@phantom-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfreebeta
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
nspluginwrapper
Suggested packages:
konqueror-nsplugins xfs
The following NEW packages will be installed:
flashplugin-nonfreebeta nspluginwrapper
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 113kB/132kB of archives.
After this operation, 553kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
flashplugin-nonfreebeta
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
Get:1 http://ftp.netspace.net.au hardy/multiverse nspluginwrapper 0.9.91.5-2ubuntu2 [113kB]
Fetched 113kB in 0s (139kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package nspluginwrapper.
(Reading database ... 126016 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking nspluginwrapper (from .../nspluginwrapper_0.9.91.5-2ubuntu2_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package flashplugin-nonfreebeta.
Unpacking flashplugin-nonfreebeta (from .../flashplugin-nonfreebeta_rc10.0.10.12ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ...
Setting up nspluginwrapper (0.9.91.5-2ubuntu2) ...
Setting up flashplugin-nonfreebeta (rc10.0.10.12ubuntu1) ...
Downloading...
--20:23:54-- http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashplayer10_inst...
=> `./flashplayer10_install_linux_091508.tar.gz'
Resolving download.macromedia.com... 125.252.203.191
Connecting to download.macromedia.com|125.252.203.191|:80... connected.
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20:24:19 (159.41 KB/s) - `./flashplayer10_install_linux_091508.tar.gz' saved [3958529/3958529]

Download done.
Flash Plugin installed.
/var/lib/dpkg/info/flashplugin-nonfreebeta.postinst: 174: dpkg-architecture: not found
*** NSPlugin Viewer *** ERROR: libnss3.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
nspluginwrapper: no appropriate viewer found for /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfreebeta/libflashplayer.so
dpkg: error processing flashplugin-nonfreebeta (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
flashplugin-nonfreebeta
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
jason@phantom-laptop:~$ locate libnss3.so
/usr/lib/libnss3.so
/usr/lib/libnss3.so.1d
/usr/lib/kompozer/libnss3.so

So "libnss3.so" is the problem for AMD64. But a locate says that libnss.so is on my system. Anyone with any ideas?

Thank you for the update. For

Thank you for the update. For some reasons the update doesn't work. In Firefox 3.0.1 and Epiphany i don't have flash now.

The version before works.

I just gave it a look. It

I just gave it a look. It does basically the same as flashplugin-nonfreebeta and all other flash installers. So if the current package doesn't work, just give it a try. If you reinstall flashplugin-nonfree (or -beta) it will override all changes from the script.

I just updated the package. I

I just updated the package. I don't understand why you're unable to install the current (now previous) package, since I already incorporated Michael's changes. Maybe you'd like to give the current package a look.

How easy is it to upgrade to

How easy is it to upgrade to new versions after using this script? How does it notify users about new versions being available? How easy is it to uninstall the version installed by this script?

There seems to be a new RC

There seems to be a new RC available: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjcyNA

I wasn't able to install the current version from the PPA on 64-bit Hardy. It seems I ran into the same problem(s) Michal Krause described in http://markusthielmann.com/blog/flash_10_beta_ubuntu_hardy#comment-133.

For Ubuntu 64 bit users there

For Ubuntu 64 bit users there a MUCH easier way to install the latest Flash10 RC.
There is a 2 click installer for the latest Flash 10 RC at http://www.queleimporta.com/how-to-install-flash-10-rc-on-ubuntu-64-bits...

No sound! Could it be because

No sound!
Could it be because i have Puls Audio enabled?

Version 1 installs and works

Version 1 installs and works on Hardy amd64.

I looked on postinst script in version 4 and I found problem. It's on line 101:

db_get flashplugin-nonfree/getlibs

I changed it to

db_get flashplugin-nonfreebeta/getlibs

but it didn't help. If I completely removed this line and following condition, I found another problem with following line:

/usr/bin/getlibs --yes -p ${GETLIBS}

I don't know, how it's possible, but it seems that postinst script never continues after this line (I must say, that I have all required 32bit libraries installed already). I've added debug message (echo "after getlibs") just after this line, but nothing was echoed and dpkg prints following error:

Downloading ...
Installing libraries ...
dpkg: error processing flashplugin-nonfreebeta (--install):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Only way to make it work is to change the getlibs line as follows:

/usr/bin/getlibs --yes -v -p ${GETLIBS} || echo "return code $?"

Of course, it's hack and not real solution (but it shows that getlibs return code is 1 in my case, not 0 as postinst script assumes). After theese changes I was able to install flashplugin-nonfreebeta_cairo10.0.0.569ubuntu4_amd64 and it works in FF3.

Previous version

Previous version (flashplugin-nonfreebeta_cairo10.0.0.569ubuntu1_amd64.deb) works fine

Installs fine or actually *works* fine an amd64?

Please see this comment to help me track down the error on amd64.

Thanks!

Same problem. Both latest

Same problem. Both latest versions of your package (flashplugin-nonfreebeta_cairo10.0.0.569ubuntu2_amd64.deb and flashplugin-nonfreebeta_cairo10.0.0.569ubuntu4_amd64.deb) failing to install on Ubuntu Hardy 64bit. Flash plugin is correctly downloaded but then installation stops with following message:

Download done.
Flash Plugin installed.
dpkg: error processing flashplugin-nonfreebeta (--install):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 10
Errors were encountered while processing:
flashplugin-nonfreebeta

Previous version (flashplugin-nonfreebeta_cairo10.0.0.569ubuntu1_amd64.deb) works fine, but can be installed only if you uninstall package itself and remove temporary directories manually before:

sudo rm -rf /var/lib/flashplugin-nonfreebeta/
sudo apt-get purge flashplugin-nonfreebeta
sudo dpkg -i flashplugin-nonfreebeta_cairo10.0.0.569ubuntu4_amd64.deb

Same problem here as volkar

Same problem here as volkar ( hardy 64 bit )

hi, your recent modification

hi,
your recent modification to the packet fails to install ...
can you get back to the prev. version?

uninstalling your package and reinstalling flashnonfree and flashlibsupport
doesn't work either ... anymore ... something is seriously broken ...

greets

jason

Unfortunately this version

Unfortunately this version does not seem to work with konqueror. It works fine with firefox 3 here, but konqueror doesn't display the flash content. The plugin gets loaded but where you normally would see the youtube video, there is just a blank spot. However if you right click on this blank spot, you can see the adobe flash menu.

Thanks for your work though - at least it works in firefox.

Does not work on my 64 bit

Does not work on my 64 bit Hardy :(

Well, I don't actually fix

Well, I don't actually fix things in Flash. I'm just distributing an installer for adobe Flash 10 beta. But thanks for the feedback :-)

Thanks for this. It fixed my

Thanks for this. It fixed my crashes so far *knock on wood*. Trying other fixes would fix youtube and hulu, but then other sites would crash all the time like espn. Was getting to the point where I was going to move back to Windows, but your fixed has so far stabilized FireFox for me. You are the man!

Thx for the solution. Tried

Thx for the solution. Tried it and Ff3 isn't crashing anymore. But somehow if I watch a vid on say share.ovi.com or youtube I don't have any sound.
Do you have any logic solution on that?

And thanks once more for fixing my crashing Firefox.

Thanks a lot! Since a couple

Thanks a lot! Since a couple of days I was struggling with flash support (FF3, Flash9, Hardy on AMD64) since it suddenly stopped working. Tried about every solution I could find on the internet.
So I thought, let's give the beta10 support a try, and now it works.

You're great.