flash player plugin not run in Devuan

smolnyn · 2017-08-27 19:39:15

Is impossible install package flashplugin-nonfree. Result is "Connessione a fpdownload.adobe.com (fpdownload.adobe.com)|104.106.117.189|:443... connesso.
Richiesta HTTP inviata, in attesa di risposta... 404 Not Found
2017-08-27 21:37:52 ERRORE 404: Not Found.

ERROR: wget failed to download https://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashp … _64.tar.gz
More information might be available at:
http://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer"
What about this ?

fsmithred · 2017-08-27 22:19:31

I ran into this a few days ago and ended up downloading it from https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/ for a friend. We can't get it to work. I already have flashplugin-nonfree installed from long ago, and when I go to about:plugins, I don't see it listed. And neither of us could see some items on one site that requires flash. Debian wiki looked helpful, but as I said, the plugin didn't seem to work and doesn't show up in the list of plugins. I don't know what's going on with it.

macondo123 · 2017-09-23 22:02:40

Hi, I haven't used flash in a year, I use html5 extension in FF, and it is working very well with youtube, and movies.

Last edited by macondo123 (2017-09-23 22:05:53)

nixer · 2017-09-24 00:43:01

Regarding the flash player situation in devuan, I had this problem some time ago. I found that the problem was that the .deb package may not have been putting it in the proper location. What I did was to search (google search, not file search) for the correct location of the flash player in linux and then symlinked to these locations that were mentioned.

So, if I remember correctly, I downloaded the adobe flash player from the adobe website and put the file libflashplayer.so in /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/ . Then I created symlinks to this location with

ln -s /usr/lib/flashplayer-plugin/libflashplayer.so /etc/alternatives/libflashplayer.so

If that does not work, try

ln -s /usr/lib/flashplayer-plugin/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/flash-mozilla.so

If that does not work, try

ln -s /usr/lib/flashplayer-plugin/libflashplayer.so /home/USER/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

I apologize for not being able to give you the exact location that I symlinked to in order to make it work, but it should be one of these. I did not symlink one location at a time, but I created the symlink in Thunar and them copied it to these locations and one of them worked. I just don't know which one is the correct location. Thus, in not knowing which location was correct, I left them all in place.

Edit: removed duplicate location

Last edited by nixer (2017-09-24 10:19:11)

ralph.ronnquist · 2017-09-24 06:05:01

You mention /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/flash-mozilla.so twice already, so if I mention it once more, it'll sure be the right place

nixer · 2017-09-24 10:20:33

Yes, I didn't catch that from the notes that I copied + pasted from. Thanks.

ralph.ronnquist · 2017-09-24 10:56:55

Nothing to worry about. I'm pretty sure it's the right pathname.
But it just made me think about the Bellman.

NFT5 · 2017-09-28 18:27:01

Another way is to grab the adobe-flashplugin package from MX16 (for Jessie, of course). And, if that package could be added to the Devuan repo......

yaye · 2018-01-01 04:20:18

Hello,

Since the libflashplayer.so file was placed in /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/, shouldn't the symbolic links be:

ln -s /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so /etc/alternatives/libflashplayer.so

ln -s /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/flash-mozilla.so

ln -s /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so /home/USER/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

I downloaded the flash_player_npapi_linux.x86_64.tar.gz from the Adobe site and I extracted the libflashplayer.so. After creating the flashplugin-nonfree folder and placing the libflashplayer.so there, the second symlink worked for me.

Ian

Last edited by yaye (2018-01-02 15:39:01)

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flash player plugin not run in Devuan

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Re: flash player plugin not run in Devuan

#3 2017-09-23 22:02:40

Re: flash player plugin not run in Devuan

#4 2017-09-24 00:43:01

Re: flash player plugin not run in Devuan

#5 2017-09-24 06:05:01

Re: flash player plugin not run in Devuan

#6 2017-09-24 10:20:33

Re: flash player plugin not run in Devuan

#7 2017-09-24 10:56:55

Re: flash player plugin not run in Devuan

#8 2017-09-28 18:27:01

Re: flash player plugin not run in Devuan

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Re: flash player plugin not run in Devuan

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