On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 7:19 PM, A J Binnie <gus.bin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Simos, > Thanks for your reply. > > On 26 April 2010 16:27, Simos Xenitellis <simos.li...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> >> Verify what you have at the moment, at 'about:plugins'. >> With the latest 64-bit Flash from >> http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/64bit.html >> (follow link for 64-bit Linux version), you should have “Shockwave >> Flash 10.0 r45”. > > Checked about:plugins in Firefox and Chromium and they both show up with the > correct version. > >> >> You would normally dump libflashplayer.so in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ >> and Firefox will pick it up automatically when you restart it. That is, >> sudo mv libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so > > Yup. I copied it to that location and did a search to see where else it > might be. It came up with: > /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer, and > /opt/Adobe AIR/Versions/1.0/Resources >> >> To verify whether a random 'libflashplayer.so' is 32 or 64 bit, run >> ldd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so >> >> If it is 64-bit, it should show /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
This should be lots of output and a single line should be that one above. You can use the command ldd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so | grep lib64 which filters and shows you only any lines that have the 'lib64' string in them. >> If it is 32-bit, it should show many references to 'lib32'. > > I got a page full of gobbledegook, so I'm assuming it's the latter > situation! The frustrating thing is that I've copied the new file to all the > locations that came up in the search. > There is also a file called npwrapper.libflash.so, with various links to it > - I'm thinking this might have something to do with it, but I'm not sure. If > I decide to completely remove all flash-related stuff and start from > scratch, is it safe to delete all these files? > Everything worked out of the box with 32-bit versions, but 64-bit is doing > my head in. Never let it be said that I don't like a challenge!!! The proper way to remove the 32-bit flash is to remove the package with "sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-nonfree". Some more tips at http://simos.info/blog/archives/804 Hope this helps, Simos -- A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion Q. Why is top posting bad? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
