Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Flash Player for Fedora 8 x86_64 bit

It was very hard to integrate between Adobe flash player and firefox x86_46 bit , i wasn't able to see youtube Videos :( and thats made me so upset , i think u tilling me : "why u can't Integrate between flash player And the FF" ?
that's because my FF is x86_46 bit Arch and There is no Adobe flash player for this Arch , but yesterday I tried Hard to Make An Integration And Finally I found this Page .
it's telling that flash player isn't avilable on x86_46 bit Arch , but u can Integrate i386 bit Adobe flash player with ur x86_46 bit FF
and this page tells the way to make the integration too "I will copy it from there"

Installing Flash

The Flash plugin is not included by default, to use Flash you first have to Install it:

  1. Open a terminal

  2. Now we need to install the Adobe repository for flash. If this command fails, feel free to go to the adobe website and look for the rpm that installs the yum repository. Run:

    su -c 'rpm -Uvh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm'
  3. Provide the root password when prompted
  4. Install the flash plugin using yum:

    su -c 'yum install flash-plugin libflashsupport'
  5. Provide the root password when prompted
  6. Once that is done the installation of the Flash Player Plugin is complete.

x86_64 Support

To be able to use the 32bit plugin with x86_64 firefox, you must install the nspluginwrapper.i386 package to enable the 32-bit Adobe Flash plugin in x86_64 Firefox and the pulseaudio-libs.i386 and libflashsupport.i386 packages to enable sound from the plugin.
  1. Install flash-plugin as shown above.

  2. Install the nspluginwrapper.i386, nspluginwrapper.x86_64, pulseaudio-libs.i386, and libflashsupport.i386 packages:

    su -c "yum -y install nspluginwrapper.{i386,x86_64} pulseaudio-libs.i386 libflashsupport.i386"
  3. Run mozilla-plugin-config to register the flash plugin. (NOTE: This step is not always necessary.)

    su -c 'mozilla-plugin-config -i -g -v'

How to test

  1. Close all instances of Firefox.

  2. Open 'about:plugins' and check if the plugin is loaded.
  3. Open Firefox and proceed to http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/welcome/, on that page you should see advertisement for flash that states Installation Complete in the Macromedia Flash Player section. If you do your Flash Player is Installed properly.

Troubleshooting Information

Most text is failing to display on Flash sites!
The plugin had bugs where it makes bad assumptions about the font configuration. For this reason, it fails to find fonts on newer versions of X.org. If you are seeing this issue, here is the link to the fix:
http://macromedia.mplug.org/faq.html#font

Read Red Hat Bugzilla #184028 for more information about this problem.