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knappster
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 Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2013 6:17 am |
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I've noticed that the only way to get versions of flash player above 11.2 (last updated approx 1 year ago) is to install Google Chrome, which has flash player integrated. I was able to build it from the AUR repositories (v26.0.1410.43-1) with flash player 11.6. I was unable to find one of the dependencies (ttf-font) so I just made a dummy package for that. After I installed chrome I deleted the package I had built, but I wanted to check if anybody else had any interest in it because I could rebuild it fairly quickly and easily or give instructions on the steps I followed. As far as I'm aware, chromium does not get packaged with the flash player... Oh, and I am using R7.4.
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graysky
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Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2013 8:22 am |
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Dunno about LH, but on Arch chromium-pepper-flash is the preferred flashplayer from chrome-based browser, not flashplugin from [extra].
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RacerX
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Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2013 1:11 pm |
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R7.4 box has flash and it works Chromium Version is 17.0.963.56 Flash Player Version 11.1.102.62 R8 64bit frontemd does not have the chromium-pepper-flash installed, but it should  thanks Graysky Chromium Version is 23 here is more on the topic http://www.webupd8.org/2012/09/how-to-m ... layer.html
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tjc
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Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2013 8:42 am |
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I'm currently using Firefox 20.0 and flash player 11.2.202.280 myself, both of which were the most current as of a few days ago. During my long run with LinHES 6.04 I got into the habit of manually installing and upgrading the browser and flash and it has carried over to 7.4. On a couple occasions I've thought about scripting it or creating my own custom PKGBUILD file but there have always been about 3 higher priorities screaming for my attention. - Download the files, for me this usually involves using the in browser version checks, (help -> about firefox -> check version -> ... & tools -> add-ons -> plugins -> check to see if your plugins are uptodate -> ...) select the "tar.gz for other linux" and the files end up in /home/mythtv - As root unpack the firefox tar ball in /usr/local/lib and rename the directory to match the tar ball. The last step makes upgrades safer and easier. Code: cd /usr/local/lib
tar xvf ~mythtv/firefox-20.0.tar.bz2
mv firefox firefox-20.0
cd /usr/bin
rm firefox
ln -s /usr/local/lib/firefox-20.0/firefox firefox
- Now for the flashplayer: Code: cd /tmp
tar xvf ~mythtv/install_flash_player_11_linux.i386.tar.gz
chown -R root:root ./usr libflashplayer.so
chmod -R go-w ./usr libflashplayer.so
mv libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
cp -r ./usr/* /usr
rm -rf /tmp/readme.txt /tmp/usr
- One final item is to archive the files in my backup directory. For this I usually rename the flash player bundle to include the full version number. Code: cd /myth/backup
mv ~mythtv/firefox-20.0.tar.bz2 .
mv ~mythtv/install_flash_player_11_linux.i386.tar.gz ./install_flash_player_11.2.202.280_linux_i386.tar.gz
chown root:root firefox-20.0.tar.bz2 install_flash_player_11.2.202.280_linux_i386.tar.gz
chmod go-w firefox-20.0.tar.bz2 install_flash_player_11.2.202.280_linux_i386.tar.gz
With practice (and command history) you can do this in less time than it takes to describe with one hand while eating dinner. 
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knappster
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Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2013 5:09 pm |
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tjc wrote: I'm currently using Firefox 20.0 and flash player 11.2.202.280 myself, both of which were the most current as of a few days ago. The most current version of flash is actually 11.7.700.169, however, it is only package with Chrome (for linux at least). They have discontinued the standalone flashplayer for linux. The flashplayer included with chrome can be made to work with other browsers, as Grasyky mentioned ("flash pepper"). Everyone has there own preferences, I was just offering one option, which is the latest version of flash in chrome.
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tjc
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Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 8:02 pm |
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Well most current readily available for Linux anyway. A recipe to install chromium-pepper-flash for LinHES would be cool... On that front, I actually DID write scripts to install firefox and flash-player from the tar balls... In the truest spirit of engineering, "it annoyed me, so I fixed it." Don't forget to edit the EXTRAS value to wherever you archive stuff like this. These try pretty hard to fail safely and with good diagnostics, but don't annoy yourself needlessly. Code: [root@black3 ~]# cat install_firefox.sh
#!/bin/bash
DOWNLOAD_DIR="/home/mythtv"
EXTRAS="/myth/backup/ExtraFiles"
VERSION="$1"
VERSION_FILE="firefox-$VERSION.tar.bz2"
DOWNLOAD_FILE="$DOWNLOAD_DIR/$VERSION_FILE"
VERSION_DIR="firefox-$VERSION"
fatal () { # Report an error and exit with a failure code
echo 1>&2 "$*"
exit 1
}
[ $(/usr/bin/id -u) -ne 0 ] &&
fatal "You must run this script as root!"
[ -z "$VERSION" ] &&
fatal "You must provide the firefox version!"
[ -f "$DOWNLOAD_FILE" ] ||
fatal "Can't find the tar ball! '$DOWNLOAD_FILE'"
# Move the tar ball to our archive/working directory
cd "$EXTRAS" || fatal "Can't cd to '$EXTRAS'"
[ -f "./$VERSION_FILE" ] && fatal "File already exists! '$VERSION_FILE'"
mv "$DOWNLOAD_FILE" "./$VERSION_FILE"
chown root:root "$VERSION_FILE"
chmod go-w,ugo-x "$VERSION_FILE"
# Unpack the tar ball and rename with version
cd /usr/local/lib || fatal "Can't cd to '/usr/local/lib'"
[ -d "$VERSION_DIR" ] && fatal "Directory already exists! '$VERSION_DIR'"
tar xvf "$EXTRAS/$VERSION_FILE"
mv firefox "$VERSION_DIR"
# Install the executable
cd /usr/bin || fatal "Can't cd to '/usr/bin'"
rm firefox
ln -s "/usr/local/lib/$VERSION_DIR/firefox" firefox
Code: [root@black3 ~]# cat install_flash_player.sh
#!/bin/bash
DOWNLOAD_DIR="/home/mythtv"
EXTRAS="/myth/backup/ExtraFiles"
VERSION="$1"
DOWNLOAD_FILE="$DOWNLOAD_DIR/install_flash_player_11_linux.i386.tar.gz"
VERSION_FILE="install_flash_player_${VERSION}_linux_i386.tar.gz"
fatal () { # Report an error and exit with a failure code
echo 1>&2 "$*"
exit 1
}
[ $(/usr/bin/id -u) -ne 0 ] &&
fatal "You must run this script as root!"
[ -f "$DOWNLOAD_FILE" ] ||
fatal "Can't find the tar ball! '$DOWNLOAD_FILE'"
[ -z "$VERSION" ] && {
# This may be a useful hint, but I don't really trust it...
tar xf "$DOWNLOAD_FILE" readme.txt --to-command='grep Version'
fatal "You must provide the flash player version!"
}
# Move the tar ball to our archive/working directory
cd "$EXTRAS" || fatal "Can't cd to '$EXTRAS'"
[ -f "./$VERSION_FILE" ] && fatal "File already exists! '$VERSION_FILE'"
mv "$DOWNLOAD_FILE" "./$VERSION_FILE"
chown root:root "$VERSION_FILE"
chmod go-w,ugo-x "$VERSION_FILE"
# Unpack the tar ball and fix ownership and permissions
tar xvf "$VERSION_FILE"
chown -R root:root ./usr libflashplayer.so
chmod -R go-w ./usr libflashplayer.so
# Install the files
mv libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
cp -r ./usr/* /usr
# Cleanup temporary files
rm -rf ./readme.txt ./usr
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mattbatt
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Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 8:59 pm |
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I successfully installed Google-Chrome two days ago I was typing notes for a how-to in firefox and then they disappeared (a conspiracy I think  OK first things first: I'm not a Linux expert, I probably did this the wrong way, please don't blame me if your system gets screwed up. Second things second: There are some differences between Google-Chrome and Chromium the important one for us is Flash support and here are the others http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ ... ogleChromeOk to the best of my memory I downloaded the Arch Package from here https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/go/g ... ome.tar.gz I know LinHES isn't Arch and installing packages from Arch is a quick way to screw up your system. I unpacked it Code: tar xvf google-chrome.tar.gz I opened the directory I found a file called PKGBUILD I did a google search on makepkg learned how to use it. Then I found out makepkg needs fakeroot to run. So I installed it. I got an error saying that google-chrome has a dependency of Code: ttf-font that isn't in the repo. I did some digging it is called Code: ttf-freefont in the LinHES repo. So I ttf-font to ttf-freefont in the PKGBUILD I ran makepkg -s (lower case -s not -S) to make an installer. To install it I did a Code: sudo pacman -U google-chrome-26.0.1410.63-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
(your chrome version will probably vary) That makes an executible called Code: google-chrome Please anyone tell me where I can make this better. _________________ My System
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tjc
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Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 5:57 am |
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mattbatt wrote: I know LinHES isn't Arch and installing packages from Arch is a quick way to screw up your system. But what you did is to use their PKGBUILD as a starting point for a custom LinHES pacakage, which is the right way to do it. Well done! 
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RacerX
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Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 10:37 am |
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It would super if someone could kindly open up a ticket to get chromium-pepper-flash into the chromium .23 package that's in R8...
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mattbatt
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Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 6:19 pm |
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We know that Google automatically updates Google-Chrome and will for the foreseeable future keep flash updated for their Chrome books. I think having google-chrome would be better than the end around with pepper. Granted I'm still having trouble getting Google-Chrome to open magnet links in Vuze. Firefox is still easier for me to use.
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tjc
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Posted: Sat May 18, 2013 8:03 am |
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nethomike01 wrote: I personally like to use Firefox because It have many useful options as like Firefox extensions plugins Security plugins are high on my list for sticking with Firefox. Things like Cookie Monster, Better Privacy, No Script,Form History Control and a couple others, really make a difference.
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RacerX
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Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2013 4:09 pm |
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On my test box R8.02 I'm currently testing, Google-Chrome with Flash 11.7.700.203 Dependencies are nspr-4.9.6-1-x86_64 nss-3.14.3-3-x86_64 ttf-freefont-20120503-2 Also testing Firefox 21.0-1-x86_64 Dependencies are nspr-4.9.6-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz nss-3.14.3-3-x86_64 startup-notification-0.12-3-x86_64 ulrunner-21.0-1-x86_64 libpng-1.6.2-3-x86_64 xvf sqlite-3.7.17-1-x86_64 Also testing Adobe Flash 11.2.202.291 Firefox 21 Plugin Quote: Cookie Monster, Better Privacy, No Script,Form History Control are all available as Add-ons with Firefox 21. And on 6/15 I opened up tickets for R8 to get flash going....
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mattbatt
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Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2013 8:24 pm |
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where is the "Adobe Flash for firefox 21" coming from? Is that in the R8 Repositories?
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tscholl
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Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2013 9:10 am |
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There is a flash plugin in the R8 extra repos
flashplugin-11.2.202.236-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
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RacerX
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Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2013 11:28 am |
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Thank you for pointing that out now Chromium works with Flash
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