[ubuntu-uk] 64-bit flash plugin and iPlayer (Was 64 bit lucid install)

[Daniel Case]

The one that worked for you is probably the same one that worked for me, did
that tutorial tell you to remove the last line from a file by any chance?

~Daniel
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Simos Xenitellis <
simos.lists at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 7:19 PM, A J Binnie <gus.binnie at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Simos,
> > Thanks for your reply.
> >
> > On 26 April 2010 16:27, Simos Xenitellis <simos.lists at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Verify what you have at the moment, at 'about:plugins'.
> >> With the latest 64-bit Flash from
> >> http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/64bit.html
> >> (follow link for 64-bit Linux version), you should have “Shockwave
> >> Flash 10.0 r45”.
> >
> > Checked about:plugins in Firefox and Chromium and they both show up with
> the
> > correct version.
> >
> >>
> >> You would normally dump libflashplayer.so in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
> >> and Firefox will pick it up automatically when you restart it. That is,
> >> sudo mv libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
> >
> > Yup. I copied it to that location and did a search to see where else it
> > might be. It came up with:
> > /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer, and
> > /opt/Adobe AIR/Versions/1.0/Resources
> >>
> >> To verify whether a random 'libflashplayer.so' is 32 or 64 bit, run
> >> ldd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
> >>
> >> If it is 64-bit, it should show   /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
>
> This should be lots of output and a single line should be that one above.
> You can use the command
> ldd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so | grep lib64
>
> which filters and shows you only any lines that have the 'lib64' string in
> them.
>
> >> If it is 32-bit, it should show many references to 'lib32'.
> >
> > I got a page full of gobbledegook, so I'm assuming it's the latter
> > situation! The frustrating thing is that I've copied the new file to all
> the
> > locations that came up in the search.
> > There is also a file called npwrapper.libflash.so, with various links to
> it
> > - I'm thinking this might have something to do with it, but I'm not
> sure. If
> > I decide to completely remove all flash-related stuff and start from
> > scratch, is it safe to delete all these files?
> > Everything worked out of the box with 32-bit versions, but 64-bit is
> doing
> > my head in. Never let it be said that I don't like a challenge!!!
>
> The proper way to remove the 32-bit flash is to remove the package
> with "sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-nonfree". Some more tips at
> http://simos.info/blog/archives/804
>
> Hope this helps,
> Simos
>
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~Daniel
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