A different get-flash-plugin problem

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Started 12 years ago by klaxon44
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klaxon44

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I first tried to use the standard get-flash-plugin technique:
#tazpkg get-flash-plugin
#get-flash-plugin

But the second line did not invoke wget and did not install libflashplayer.so anywhere I could find.

I went to the Adobe website and downloaded the file: install_flash_player_11_linux.i386.tar.gz, saving it to /home/tux/Download/Flash11. I then opened an xterm window, changed to that directory, and entered:
#tar -xzf install_flash_player_11_linux.i386.tar.gz

This leaves the file libflashplayer.so in the current directory.

I then entered:
#cp -p libflashplayer.so /usr/share/flash

to put the libflashplayer.so file into the correct share folder. (Note, I had to create the /usr/share/flash folder first.)

Next, I opened the .profile file in my /home/tux folder and added the line:
export MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH="/usr/share/flash"
to the bottom of the file, saved, and closed the file. Note that I am using a full install on a CF card, so I did not need to do the "tazusb writefs gzip" command.

I then logged out of the Xterm session, logged in again to Xterm, then started Midori. When I went to a page known to contain a flash file, the page informed me that my browser did not have the correct flash player installed.

I opened Midori's sidepanel to view the extensions and noticed that libflashplayer.so was grayed out, with a note that libssl3.so was missing.

I then went to an Xterm window and entered:
#ldd /usr/share/flash/libflashplayer.so

It reported that the following dependencies were missing:
libssl3.so
libsmime3.so
libnss3.so
libnssutil3.so
libplds4.so
libplc4.so
libnspr4.so

How do I fulfill these dependencies? Should I use an earlier version of the flash player, say, 10?

Posted 12 years ago #
totoetsasoeur

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For example you can use this tool to find which Slitaz package provides your missing file:

http://pkgs.slitaz.org/search.sh

a) On the left tab, select "File",
b) on the middle text box enter the missing file you are looking for (i.e libsmime3.so),
c) on the right tab, select "cooking",
d) then click "SEARCH" button.
e) then select and download the found package (in case of more than one package listed, you should investigate deeper which one will suit your needs),
f) and then install the package as usual (#tazpkg install package_name).

Cheers

Posted 12 years ago #
arsaber

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Or :
# tazpkg get-install wget
(that's why wget was not invoked)
# tazpgk get-install get-flash-plugin
# get-flash-plugin

Posted 12 years ago #
Trixar_za

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I wouldn't recommend the real wget, especially with the flash plugin since it uses spidering to download the package. Spidering is slight different between the real wget and the busybox wget. So any of the get-* packages (especially in SliTaz 3) will break with the real one installed.

Also, rather use http://www.trixarian.net/downloads/get-flash-plugin-1.2.tazpkg and install it with tazpkg install. It's the cooking version without the bad requirements (like libfirefox). It works well with my firefox-4.0 package (and upgrades).

Posted 12 years ago #
klaxon44

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Thanks to all for the replies!

I used the Search function in the SliTaz Packages Manager to find a package that contained each of the missing files. (This is basically what totoetsasoeur suggested, righ?) This devolved to installing SeaMonkey 2.0.2, then copying the needed shared objects from the /usr/lib/seamonkey-2.0.2 folder into the /usr/lib foldder. I then removed SeaMonkey as it is WAY too large to run on this tiny system (256MB RAM, 2GB CF card).

Now, when I start Midori, the Extensions panel shows that libflashplayer.so is still greyed out because extension_init in /usr/lib/midori/libflashplayer.so is undefined.

Pulling shared objects out of installed packages to satisfy missing elements from a library MUST be wrong; it's too fragile and error-prone. There must be a better way.

Trixar, I tried your suggestion but I'm not sure I did it properly. I clicked on the link you provided and saved the downloaded file into a temp folder. I then opened an Xterm window, changed to that folder, changed to superuser, and ran:
#tazpkg install get-flash-plugin-1.2.tazpkg --forced

This installed a tiny file (only a few K) and did not resolve the missing shared objects. If I did this wrong, can you please provide the exact steps? (Sorry, I'm a noob at some of this...)

klaxon44

Posted 12 years ago #
klaxon44

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Update...

I noticed when I did a package list in the SliTaz Packages Manager that I now had a package installed named get-flash-plugin, which I assume was installed from the steps Trixar provided above. I opened an Xterm window, switched to superuser, and entered:
#get-flash-plugin

This installed a bunch of files from the Adobe and Macromedia sites. I then restarted Midori and checked the Extensions panel. Now there is a new extension, Shockwave Flash. It is checked but greyed out; it is listing libflashplayer.so as missing.

klaxon44

Posted 12 years ago #
Trixar_za

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You need to be online so the package can download additional files. Also it might fail the first time or two. Sometimes you'll have to run the get-flash-plugin script manually for it to work. No clue why this is, there you have it.

Posted 12 years ago #
klaxon44

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I have uninstalled and reinstalled manually. When I run get-flash-plugin manually, it generates the following error:

Installation of : flash-plugin-11.1.102.55
================================================================================
Copying flash-plugin-11.1.102.55... [ OK ]
Extracting flash-plugin-11.1.102.55... 9523 blocks
Extracting the pseudo fs... (lzma) 33298 blocks
Installing flash-plugin... [ OK ]
Removing all tmp files... [ OK ]
Processing post install commands...ln: /usr/lib/firefox/plugins: No such file or directory
[ OK ]
================================================================================
flash-plugin (11.1.102.55) is installed.

I do have a firefox directory, but it's /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.7/plugins. However, it looks like this probably isn't the problem. The libflashplayer.so file exists in /usr/share/flash, where it's supposed to be. Also, my MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH is /usr/share/flash. So it looks like Shockwave Flash is looking somewhere specific for libflashplayer.so, and either the link it is using is missing or it points somewhere other than /usr/share/flash. How do I determine where Shockwave Flash is looking for libflashplayer.so?

klaxon44

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