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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] www-plugins/adobe-flash-10.1.53.64 won't play in FF & Konqueror
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 08:08:09
Message-Id: 201006231003.56292.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] www-plugins/adobe-flash-10.1.53.64 won't play in FF & Konqueror by Mick
1 On Tuesday 22 June 2010 23:46:07 Mick wrote:
2 > On Tuesday 22 June 2010 19:34:19 you wrote:
3 > > On Tuesday 22 June 2010 19:03:00 Mick wrote:
4
5 > > > I went into settings and clicked on Scan for new Plugins, but no
6 > > > success. Can you play this link with Konq?
7 > > >
8 > > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/politics/10371590.stm
9 > >
10 > > That page works just fine for me on 64-bit konqueror-4.4.4 with adobe-
11 > > flash-10.1.53.64 but I don't see any flash on it
12 >
13 > The picture next to the introductory paragraph is a flash video.
14
15 OK, now I see it. And it plays fine for me
16
17 > > I have nsplugins installed and manually performed the nspluginwrapper
18 > >
19 > > config actions to enable the 32-bit flash plugin
20 >
21 > Do I need to do that? Won't Konq work with 64bit flash?
22
23 There is NO 64 bit flash in the latest packages, confirmed in the ebuild.
24
25 $ equery files adobe-flash
26 * Searching for adobeflash ...
27 * Contents of www-plugins/adobe-flash-10.1.53.64:
28 /etc
29 /etc/adobe
30 /etc/adobe/mms.cfg
31 /opt
32 /opt/netscape
33 /opt/netscape/plugins32
34 /opt/netscape/plugins32/libflashplayer.so
35 /usr
36 /usr/lib32
37 /usr/lib32/nsbrowser
38 /usr/lib32/nsbrowser/plugins
39 /usr/lib32/nsbrowser/plugins/libflashplayer.so ->
40 /opt/netscape/plugins32/libflashplayer.so
41 /usr/share
42 /usr/share/doc
43 /usr/share/doc/adobe-flash-10.1.53.64
44 /usr/share/doc/adobe-flash-10.1.53.64/readme.txt.bz2
45 alan@nazgul ~ $ eix adobe-flash
46 [I] www-plugins/adobe-flash
47 Available versions: (~)9.0.277.0!m!s 10.0.45.2!m!s (~)10.0.45.2-r1!m!s
48 10.1.53.64!m!s {+32bit +64bit multilib}
49 Installed versions: 10.1.53.64!m!s(20:16:52 19/06/10)(multilib)
50 Homepage: http://www.adobe.com/
51 Description: Adobe Flash Player
52
53 > I have reinstalled kde-base/nsplugins but Konqueror will still not play.
54
55 You need nspluginwrapper installed and configured. It will find all your 32-
56 bit plugins and do the necessary to make Konqueror aware of them. This doesn't
57 happen automatically, every time you update a plugin the config is broken and
58 has to be redone.
59
60
61 --
62 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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Re: [gentoo-user] www-plugins/adobe-flash-10.1.53.64 won't play in FF & Konqueror Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>