Which Flash player with a 64 bits mozilla ?

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Getget94 · Post by **Getget94** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 3:24 pm

Hello, I currently emerged mozilla 1.6, swfdec and libswf, but it doesn't work :/

Do you managed to get a working flash player with a 64bits version of browser ?

(Sorry for the english & the question, but i'm a french noob lol)

altrent · Post by **altrent** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 5:41 pm

Salut,

You have to emerge the mozilla-firefox-bin (32 bits compiled firefox) along with all the pre-required emul libraries. It works very well for me.
64bits browser do not work with flash yet.

Getget94 · Post by **Getget94** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 5:53 pm

It seems like I can't emerge it .... do I have to emerge 32 bits emulation before ? Do I have to put a ACCEPT_KEYWORDS somewhere ?

It seems not that simple to build 32 bits appz, I hink i'll wait until 64 bit flash is available lol

plemon · Post by **plemon** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 7:14 pm

To get mozilla-firefox-bin to install and work correctly on the amd64 platform, you'll need to emerge to emul-linux-* packages from the app-emulation tree

eg:

emerge emul-linux-x86-baselibs
emerge emul-linux-x86-xlibs
emerge emul-linux-x86-gtklibs

and then emerge mozilla-firefox-bin. This has several dependancies on lib-compat etc etc that arn't needed on amd64, so use

emerge --nodeps mozilla-firefox-bin

now your all set to emerge netscape-flash

This should get you up and running in now time! Now it's time to visit www.castlewolfenstein.com (which requires flash to work properly), and demand an x86_64 port!

Phill L / not|me

Getget94 · Post by **Getget94** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 9:36 pm

Thank you for your patience

I have a problem merging firefox :

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tux root # emerge --nodeps mozilla-firefox-bin
Calculating dependencies
!!! all ebuilds that could satisfy "mozilla-firefox-bin" have been masked.
!!! possible candidates are:
- net-www/mozilla-firefox-bin-0.8 (masked by: missing keyword)

!!! Error calculating dependencies. Please correct.

If you can help

himpierre · Post by **himpierre** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 9:49 pm

Hello

Try:

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emerge --nodeps /usr/portage/net-www/mozilla-firefox-bin/mozilla-firefox-bin-0.8.ebuild

Thomas

Getget94 · Post by **Getget94** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 11:04 pm

This works

Poseidon · Post by **Poseidon** » Tue Apr 06, 2004 6:58 pm

You don't need a 32-bit browser. Guys, this is WHY we have a lib-compat library and the 32-bit emulation. Sometimes, I wonder where people pull stuff from.

Unfortunately the lib-compat emerge is retarded and broken. Just manually untar it and copy the files from the "x86" to your "/lib" directory.

Flash works for me on my native Mozilla 1.7 beta 64-bit, Netscape 7.1 (precompiled), and my custom emerged Mozilla 1.6.1 compiled here for 64-bit.

This should work for other plugins as well.

alshain · Post by **alshain** » Wed Apr 07, 2004 9:18 am

Poseidon wrote:You don't need a 32-bit browser. Guys, this is WHY we have a lib-compat library and the 32-bit emulation. Sometimes, I wonder where people pull stuff from.

Unfortunately the lib-compat emerge is retarded and broken. Just manually untar it and copy the files from the "x86" to your "/lib" directory.

Flash works for me on my native Mozilla 1.7 beta 64-bit, Netscape 7.1 (precompiled), and my custom emerged Mozilla 1.6.1 compiled here for 64-bit.

This should work for other plugins as well.

This didn't work for me, but then I'd have been surprised if it had. Are you sure you have your browsers compiled as 64-bit?

Andrew

emanuelez · Post by **emanuelez** » Thu Apr 08, 2004 2:57 pm

Poseidon wrote:You don't need a 32-bit browser. Guys, this is WHY we have a lib-compat library and the 32-bit emulation. Sometimes, I wonder where people pull stuff from.

Unfortunately the lib-compat emerge is retarded and broken. Just manually untar it and copy the files from the "x86" to your "/lib" directory.

Flash works for me on my native Mozilla 1.7 beta 64-bit, Netscape 7.1 (precompiled), and my custom emerged Mozilla 1.6.1 compiled here for 64-bit.

This should work for other plugins as well.

do u feel like creating a better ebuild?

Vendicatore · Post by **Vendicatore** » Thu Apr 08, 2004 10:49 pm

It didn't work for me too.
The emul libs are only for 32bit binary to run even if they aren't statically linked with requested libs...
But I've another problems with 64bit native Mozilla (and Firefox too):
it dont recognize correctly java plugin of blackdown jdk 1.4.2 (rc1) compiled in 64bit.
Anyone have this problem too?

Corona688 · Post by **Corona688** » Thu Apr 08, 2004 10:55 pm

In order to get netscape-flash working, I had to borrow the libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 from a 32-bit x86 Redhat box; gflashplayer and the netscape-flash plugin wouldn't use the 32-bit one the emulation libraries installed no matter how much I yelled at them. Try 'ldd gflashplayer' to see if it needs that lib; it might not be the 64-bit browser's fault.

Q · Post by Q » Fri Apr 16, 2004 2:39 am

The blackdown 1.4.2_rc1 64 bit jdk plugin works with mozilla 1.6. The symlink in the mozilla plugin directory is to the wrong filename. Correcting the link makes it all work

Lemma · Post by **Lemma** » Tue May 04, 2004 10:47 am

Q wrote:The blackdown 1.4.2_rc1 64 bit jdk plugin works with mozilla 1.6. The symlink in the mozilla plugin directory is to the wrong filename. Correcting the link makes it all work

And to what may I ask? I have tried to get it working but to no avail...

Lemma · Post by **Lemma** » Tue May 04, 2004 10:54 am

Lemma wrote:
Q wrote:The blackdown 1.4.2_rc1 64 bit jdk plugin works with mozilla 1.6. The symlink in the mozilla plugin directory is to the wrong filename. Correcting the link makes it all work
And to what may I ask? I have tried to get it working but to no avail...

And 2 min after I have the answer

. You have to ask a Q to find the answer, it seems

Q · Post by Q » Fri May 07, 2004 6:45 pm

Here is what you need to do

1. go to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
2. rm javaplugin_oji.so
3. ln -s /opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2_rc1/jre/plugin/amd64/mozilla/libjavaplugin_oji.so javaplugin_oji.so

Ben2040 · Post by **Ben2040** » Sat May 08, 2004 9:58 am

Hi

Does that also work with the JRE?

Ben

herbie · Post by **herbie** » Sat May 08, 2004 10:18 am

Ben2040 wrote:Does that also work with the JRE?

I don't think it does. Well at least I couldn't get it to work with the jre but the jdk plugin worked fine.

poisson · Post by **poisson** » Sun May 09, 2004 2:00 pm

Generally speaking, 32bit plugins work with 32bit browsers, and 64bit plugins works with 64bit browsers.

In fact on my dual Opteron box, Netscape recognize Shockwave Flash and Acrobat plugins, while Firefox recognize Java (both 64bit built from scratch).

32bit emulation support does not help. I think the only way to have Firefox with flash plugin is to force Macromedia to release a native version.

Pythagoras1 · Post by **Pythagoras1** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 3:17 pm

and why doesn't even gplflash work?

LaNcom · Post by **LaNcom** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 5:12 pm

GPLFlash _does_ work, more or less. But it's very unstable, only supports parts of Flash up to v4, crashes on v5, v6 and v7 applets, and it seems to be abandoned for quite some time now.

I think it should be possible to create some remote control/ translator plugin (something like plugger, a 64bit plugin that opens and controls 32bit plugins loaded in a 32bit plugin host, maybe using ports to communicate). But then again, I'm no coder. Maybe this would be possible with something like KDE's nspluginviewer, I don't know if it's possible for 32bit DCOP apps to communicate with 64bit DCOP apps, so this could be used for communication...
Anyone interested to give it a try?!

Pythagoras1 · Post by **Pythagoras1** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 6:39 pm

LaNcom wrote:GPLFlash _does_ work, more or less. But it's very unstable, only supports parts of Flash up to v4, crashes on v5, v6 and v7 applets, and it seems to be abandoned for quite some time now.

well i knew that gplflash is the usual way for linux on ppc, but my amd64-bit firefox doesn't recognize the amd64-bit gplflash plugin when i enter about:plugins althought it's present in all plugin directories firefox is looking in. so what's wrong with it?

Pythagoras1 · Post by **Pythagoras1** » Fri Jul 09, 2004 1:03 pm

netscape-flash isn't masked any more for ~amd64 but it still doesn't work with 64 bit firefox.

PredatorX · Post by **PredatorX** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 5:13 pm

Okay guys.
By reading this post I have mozilla firefox bin working with flash
and mozilla (64-bit) with java.
Hell, I want ONE browser that's supports both!
I don't care how many bits it has.
I tried to emerge the sun-jre-bin. Works, but when I symlink the java plugin from the
/opt/sun-jre-bin-1.4.2.05/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32 dir, firebird crashes when I open this page:
http://www.javatester.org/version.html
where mozilla gives the blackdown plugin.
Does any one know how to get Java working on the firebird-bin (0.8 ) or other versions maybe do work?
Thanks for any help!

p-Lo · Post by **p-Lo** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 9:51 pm

using firefox-bin and netscape-flash-7.x on my 64 bit install still doesn't even work entirely correctly. It has problems with keyboard input sometimes, and sometimes pauses and continues otherwise smooth animations every few seconds. I hope the plugin improves sometime soon, because i don't see any open format or tools replacing flash anytime in the forseeable future.

Which Flash player with a 64 bits mozilla ?

Which Flash player with a 64 bits mozilla ?

mozilla-firefox-bin install