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Flash in Linux
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128-bit
Posts: 2421
Registered: 04-25-2007
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Flash support in Linux (or lack there of) has been an annoyance for many. Adobe hasn't released a flash player for PPC and as such there is nothing that can be done.... officially. Thankfully there are people who have taken in upon themselves to bridge this gap, specifically there is Gnash and swfdec. Gnash is being developed to complement the GNU toolset, and has a higher version number (0.8.2 versus 0.5.2) giving the impression that it's the better choice. I haven't used either, so I don't know which is actually better. Once I have the chance to I'll come back and give a better comparison.
What you probably are more interested in, is how to go about using this, so here's what I came up with.
YDL As of YDL 6.0 there's an easy way of getting flash working. To do so open a terminal and run the following commands: su
<your root password>
yum erase gnash-plugin
yum install swfdec swfdec-mozilla
Ubuntu
For now I've managed to get Gnash working and here's what needs to be done (white text means run from command line)
Gnash
First install dependencies, to do so you first have to "unlock" them. Go (from the top menu) System -> Adminstration -> Synaptic Package Manager, enter your password and then go Settings -> Repositories. In the "Ubuntu Software" tab make sure that all of the options under "Downloadable from the Internet" are checked as are all the option under the "Ubuntu updates" in the "Updates" tab. Having made those changes, click close and then "Reload" on the button menu in the Synaptic Package Manager. Once that's done you have to install the dependencies:
sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev libpango1.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev libasound2-dev liboil0.3-dev libmad0-dev build-essential libxml2-dev libjpeg-dev libsdl1.2-dev libcurl3-dev libagg-dev libboost-dev libboost-thread-dev libming-dev mtasc kdelibs4-dev libgif-dev libgstreamer0.10-dev libboost-date-time-dev
That's a single (long) command, regardless if it appears on multiple lines. Once that's done (it's going to take a while... lots of stuff to install) you have to download and extract Gnash.
wget ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/gnash/0.8.4/gnash-0.8.4.tar.bz2
tar -xvf gnash-0.8.4.tar.bz2
cd gnash-0.8.4
And lastly you have to compile and install it
./configure
make
sudo make install
If all went well, then no errors were thrown (compilation takes a while ~1 hour I think) and you now have the flash plugin available to firefox. There is a bug with the installer in that it changes permission of the firefox settings directory, preventing firefox from being launched. To fix that run the following command
sudo chown -R username:username ~/.mozilla
replacing username, with whatever username you use in Ubuntu. At this point you should have flash available to you in firefox.
swfdec
Unfortunately I couldn't get this to work either. It was failing because it could find gstreamer 0.10.11 even though I had 0.10.14 installed.... Message Edited by cancech on 11-02-2008 02:49 PM Message Edited by cancech on 11-05-2008 02:42 PM
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09-29-2007 04:09 PM
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Re: Flash in Linux
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Button Masher
Posts: 278
Registered: 12-01-2006
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Actually, Xubuntu, Kubuntu and Ubuntu (Gutsy versions) have the latest 0.8.1 already available in synaptic or apt-get. Just enable the default universe repositories from synaptics' Settings-Repositories-Third-Party menu. It still may be good to compile from source, however, mainly so you can enable the agg renderer instead of the extremely slow default of opengl (--enable-renderer=agg). As we all painfully know the PS3 under linux isn't hardware accelerated graphics wise, so using agg (basically the framebuffer) instead of dog-slow ogl is a big speedup. Unfortunately, gnash still doesn't cover a lot of the flash sites that native flash does. Its pretty hit and miss beyond standard sites like youtube. For more info, use ./configure --help from your extracted gnash archive. You may want to update your instructions above to configure for agg (and, possibly, cairo).
(PS: as an aside, if using a debian system such as ubuntu, you might also want to download the checkinstall package. Basically, instead of issuing a 'sudo make install', you call 'sudo checkinstall'. This automatically creates and installs a genuine debian package that is managed by the system (synaptic, apt-get). Makes managing compiled software far easier on these systems. Simply: 'sudo apt-get install checkinstall' to enable its use. Checkinstall is available for rpm and slackware based systems as well).
Message Edited by ElrondElvish on 11-02-2007 05:43 AM
I know a lot about little things, yet very little about a lot of things.
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11-02-2007 05:18 AM
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