Flash Plugin under Linux 64

I finally can see flash on my Ubuntu AMD64!

I run across the NSpluginwrapper: A cross-architecture browser plugin tool article today, downloaded NSpluginwrapper and followed the instructions on the Ubuntu forums:

  1. Download the Plugin and the Viewer
  2. Install alien and linux32, if not already installed.
  3. Convert the downloaded rpm's to deb's
    $ sudo alien -d *.rpm
  4. Install the newly created debs:
    $ sudo dpkg -i nspluginwrapper-i386_0.9.90-2_amd64.deb
    $ sudo dpkg -i nspluginwrapper_0.9.90-2_amd64.deb
  5. Download the plugin you want to install, and extract the .so file. For example, to install flash, grab the tar.gz file from Macromedia's website, and extract libflashplayer.so.
  6. Move the plugin (libflashplayer.so) to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. This is where nspluginwrapper stores the main plugin, so it's probably a nice folder to keep them.
  7. Now we need nsplugwrapper to make the new plugin, so call:
    $ sudo /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/x86_64/npconfig -i /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
    It will either end up in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. Copy the generated plugin to the main plugins folder:
    $ sudo cp /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/
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Anonymous says:

M'ha anat a la perfecció i es la solució més senzilla que hi ha. Tinc la Ubuntu 6.10 en 64 bits.

en Flash. Si bien la solucion no es perfecta funciona bien en la mayoria de los casos.Referencia:Flash Plugin under Linux64NSpluginwrapper: A cross-architecture browser plugin toolUbuntu

Secret Ham (visitor) says:

reconfiguring xserver-xorgnspluginwrapper32-bit plugins (flash, etc) for firefox on amd64 machines http://marius.scurtescu.com/?p=139

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