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Since installing kde4, I've been getting an error message that I need to
install the flash plugin (konqueror and mozilla) when running both 3.5.7 and
4.0.0. The flashplugin-nonfree package is installed.

Any ideas?
Paul

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On Sunday 13 January 2008 11:47:51 am Paul Kaplan wrote:
> Since installing kde4, I've been getting an error message that I need to
> install the flash plugin (konqueror and mozilla) when running both 3.5.7
> and 4.0.0. The flashplugin-nonfree package is installed.
>
> Any ideas?
> Paul

Not sure, but this is what I had to do on some systems.
copy the flash plugin .so files from /usr/lib/firefox/plugins
(libflashplayer.so & flashplayer.xpt) to <usershome>/.mozilla/plugins
See if that works. You may have already done this, but new users on my system
were getting those same kind of errors until I did this. Not sure why, but
its a fairly recent problem.

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On Sunday 13 January 2008 11:38:49 pm Howard Coles Jr. wrote:
> On Sunday 13 January 2008 11:47:51 am Paul Kaplan wrote:
> > Since installing kde4, I've been getting an error message that I need to
> > install the flash plugin (konqueror and mozilla) when running both 3.5.7
> > and 4.0.0. The flashplugin-nonfree package is installed.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> > Paul
>
> Not sure, but this is what I had to do on some systems.
> copy the flash plugin .so files from /usr/lib/firefox/plugins
> (libflashplayer.so & flashplayer.xpt) to <usershome>/.mozilla/plugins
> See if that works. You may have already done this, but new users on my
> system were getting those same kind of errors until I did this. Not sure
> why, but its a fairly recent problem.
>

Interesting. libflashplayer.so and flashplayer.xpt are already found in
<userhome>/.mozilla/plugins. However they are not to be found
in /usr/lib/firefoxplugins, /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
or /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins. Also, libflashplayer.so is listed as
one of the installed konqueror plugins. Nevertheless, flash won't work in
either konqi or mozilla. ???

Still frustrated.
Paul

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On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Pierre Schmitz wrote:


As promissed, I replaced our flashplugin package by just a (hacky) script
which downloads the plugin. For x86_64 it installs the beta plugin released
today.

Please tell me if its working so it can be moved to [extra].

Btw: It might look strange, but the package is licensed under GPL. It just
contains a download script and not the player itself.




Does the license has a clause that prevents the modification of the
installer? If yes, it must go to AUR like acroread.


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As promissed, I replaced our flashplugin package by just a (hacky) script
which downloads the plugin. For x86_64 it installs the beta plugin released
today.

Please tell me if its working so it can be moved to [extra].

Btw: It might look strange, but the package is licensed under GPL. It just
contains a download script and not the player itself.

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> Please tell me if its working so it can be moved to [extra].

I know this isn't horribly helpful, but it wouldn't install with -U the
first two times I tried. I rebooted and tried again and it worked.
Something about libflashSOMETHING.so not being found, IIRC.

Dale

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On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Dale Blount <dale@archlinux.org> wrote:
>> Please tell me if its working so it can be moved to [extra].
>
> I know this isn't horribly helpful, but it wouldn't install with -U the
> first two times I tried. I rebooted and tried again and it worked.
> Something about libflashSOMETHING.so not being found, IIRC.

I laughed. "There was a thing with some stuff and another thing that
didn't work like the thing with stuff" 8)

Judging from the script and your previous issue over jabber - I'm
going to guess that the wget failed, so bsdtar barfed?

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On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 14:41 -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Dale Blount <dale@archlinux.org> wrote:
> >> Please tell me if its working so it can be moved to [extra].
> >
> > I know this isn't horribly helpful, but it wouldn't install with -U the
> > first two times I tried. I rebooted and tried again and it worked.
> > Something about libflashSOMETHING.so not being found, IIRC.
>
> I laughed. "There was a thing with some stuff and another thing that
> didn't work like the thing with stuff" 8)
>
> Judging from the script and your previous issue over jabber - I'm
> going to guess that the wget failed, so bsdtar barfed?
>

Yes! It was a bsdtar error. No idea why it worked the 3rd time though,
but it's working fine now (youtube and speedtest.net tested).

Dale

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On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 15:51 -0500, Dale Blount wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 14:41 -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Dale Blount <dale@archlinux.org> wrote:
> > >> Please tell me if its working so it can be moved to [extra].
> > >
> > > I know this isn't horribly helpful, but it wouldn't install with -U the
> > > first two times I tried. I rebooted and tried again and it worked.
> > > Something about libflashSOMETHING.so not being found, IIRC.
> >
> > I laughed. "There was a thing with some stuff and another thing that
> > didn't work like the thing with stuff" 8)
> >
> > Judging from the script and your previous issue over jabber - I'm
> > going to guess that the wget failed, so bsdtar barfed?
> >
>
> Yes! It was a bsdtar error. No idea why it worked the 3rd time though,
> but it's working fine now (youtube and speedtest.net tested).

It appears to be the "-T 10" that's causing issues for me. A single
failed DNS request is enough for a 10 second timeout to cause the
installation to fail. I'd suggest increasing it to at least 30.

Dale

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On Monday 17 November 2008 22:05:15 Dale Blount wrote:
> It appears to be the "-T 10" that's causing issues for me. *A single
> failed DNS request is enough for a 10 second timeout to cause the
> installation to fail. *I'd suggest increasing it to at least 30.

OK, I increased it to 30 seconds (trunk only). What do you think of touching
the plugin file in the build function:

pro: pacman knows about this files
con: if for any reason the install script fails you'll end up with a wasted
plugin.

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