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:
- Download the Plugin and the Viewer
- Install alien and linux32, if not already installed.
- Convert the downloaded rpm's to deb's
$ sudo alien -d *.rpm - 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 - 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.
- 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.
- 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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