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    Prerelease version Flash Player 10 for Linux available

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by Baserk, May 15, 2008.

  1. Baserk

    Baserk Notebook user

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    A beta version for Adobe's Flash player 10 is available.
    It's mainly aimed at producers and consumers to test content.
    Make sure to uninstall your current Flash player version before installing v.10
    Linux downloads (tar.gz & rpm); link
    Release notes link
     
    Baserk, May 15, 2008
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  2. Bog

    Bog Losing it...

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    Ugh... why the RPM packages? Did they develop it for SUSE or something?

    Debian package users can download the package "alien" and CD to the directory containing the .rpm and type:

    sudo alien -d packagename.rpm

    Alien will recompile it into a Debian package.
     
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  3. Baserk

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    I'm not really sure but they have always mentioned SUSE and RHEL specifically, as the linux OS's it's supported on. Because of the business aspect maybe?

    Afaik, it's the first time they mention, Ubuntu support has been added.
     
    Baserk, May 15, 2008
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    Anyone tried it?
     
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    Did they fix the libflashsupport bug that crashed firefox 9/10 times?
     
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    Have you already seen these posts, link link ?

    Nothing final yet, hopefully we'll all have a final solution in 8.04.1 with Flash 10 Final...
     
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    Yes I did, nspluginwrapper works well enough. the grey box are annoying nonetheless.
     
    Ayle, May 15, 2008
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    I just do an
    Code: 
    alien -i packagename.rpm
    to go ahead and install it....it then shows up in synaptic to remove if needed (for those that haven't used alien)
     
    theZoid, May 16, 2008
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    libflashsupport was intended to fix sound issues between flash9/pulseaudio. you do not need this with flash 10 or if you're not using pulseaudio. it has no other purpose.
     
    szandor, Aug 7, 2008
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    I think Intrepid Ibex Alpha uses Flash 10 as the default flash player....
     
    benx009, Aug 7, 2008
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    designated build 569 was pushed out on 8-11-08. much improvement over the last two betas. if you have problems with firefox seeing the new libflashplayer.so as 10.0.0.d569 in about :plugins, you'll need to create symlinks. after installing, and flash doesn't work, do:

    $ ldd /path/to/libflashplayer.so

    if you see:

    libssl3.so => not found
    libnss3.so => not found
    libnspr4.so => not found

    you'll need to:

    $ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libssl3.so.1d /usr/lib/libssl3.so
    $ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libnss3.so.1d /usr/lib/libnss3.so
    $ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libnspr4.so.0d /usr/lib/libnspr4.so
     
    szandor, Aug 18, 2008
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