Flash 10 Beta on Ubuntu Hardy
Markus Thielmann — Tue, 2008-06-03
Since a few weeks I'm testing Flash 10 Beta and I'm really happy with it. There are some bugs with online games from time to time, but the overall performance is great. There's better (faster) fullscreen support and it seems Adobe worked really hard on Ubuntu compatibility and the sound issues.
I experienced very few Firefox crashes, even if I'm using the browser up to 16 hours a day, constantly playing at least one flash video.
I recently presented a few workarounds for the annoying Flash bug in Ubuntu Hardy. Since none of the workarounds really solved the issue, I decided to stop using the nspluginwrapper workaround with Flash 9 and keep using the Flash 10 beta. Fortunately, Flash doesn't seem to need libflashsupport any longer, even if your hardware doesn't support hardware mixing.
To make installation of the Flash beta more comfortable, I decided to modify the flashplugin-nonfree package to a flashplugin-nonfreebeta package. Since Flash 10 still crashes with libflashsupport installed, the package will remove it before installing the Flash beta.
I'm neither a Flash nor a packaging guru, if you're willing to give it a try, add the following line to your sources list:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/thielmann/ubuntu hardy mainUpdate the sources and install the package flashplugin-nonfreebeta. Due to Bug #125103 of the Launchpad service, you'll notice a message stating that this is an unsigned package.
I couldn't test the package on amd64 and lpia. Please report any installation issues to the comments, any Flash bugs to Adobe's bug tracker.
It seems that the new Flash
Eetu Huisman (not verified) — Tue, 2008-06-03It seems that the new Flash plugin "is not a valid NPAPI plugin" according to nspluginwrapper, so it can't be installed in 64-bit environment. Too bad.
Thanks for reporting. I think
Markus Thielmann — Tue, 2008-06-03Thanks for reporting. I think I fixed the bug, please try again.
Does the beta fix the problem
Shaded Spriter (not verified) — Tue, 2008-06-03Does the beta fix the problem with firefox freezing when you try to navigate away from a page with flash on it?
I never experienced that
Markus Thielmann — Thu, 2008-06-05I never experienced that problem. Just give it a try. If it doesn't solve the issue, just install flashplugin-nonfree again.
Flash menus STILL drop down
disappointed (not verified) — Sat, 2008-06-07Flash menus STILL drop down behind flash ads or what-have-you. That's very disappointing.
You could try the FlashBlock
Klerud (not verified) — Wed, 2008-06-25You could try the FlashBlock plugin for Firefox. Unblock the menu and leave the adds blocked. I use FlashBlock myself, and being in full control over Flash online is very satisfying :)
Thanks a lot! This solved the
Bill Bitsikas (not verified) — Fri, 2008-06-13Thanks a lot! This solved the problem for me.
Great! Thank you so much. I
cluid (not verified) — Sat, 2008-06-14Great! Thank you so much. I really got pissed because of all those crashes. :)
Thanks a bunch for the
Djee (not verified) — Sun, 2008-06-15Thanks a bunch for the package!
Works great on my 64 platform, a lot better than flash 9 did.
I really wish I had stumbled on your blog two days from now, it would've saved me a lot time.
Thanks again
Thanks a lot! Since a couple
SwitchBL8 (not verified) — Fri, 2008-06-27Thanks a lot! Since a couple of days I was struggling with flash support (FF3, Flash9, Hardy on AMD64) since it suddenly stopped working. Tried about every solution I could find on the internet.
So I thought, let's give the beta10 support a try, and now it works.
You're great.
Thx for the solution. Tried
localhost (not verified) — Fri, 2008-06-27Thx for the solution. Tried it and Ff3 isn't crashing anymore. But somehow if I watch a vid on say share.ovi.com or youtube I don't have any sound.
Do you have any logic solution on that?
And thanks once more for fixing my crashing Firefox.
Thanks for this. It fixed my
Squarekid (not verified) — Thu, 2008-07-03Thanks for this. It fixed my crashes so far *knock on wood*. Trying other fixes would fix youtube and hulu, but then other sites would crash all the time like espn. Was getting to the point where I was going to move back to Windows, but your fixed has so far stabilized FireFox for me. You are the man!
Well, I don't actually fix
Markus Thielmann — Thu, 2008-07-03Well, I don't actually fix things in Flash. I'm just distributing an installer for adobe Flash 10 beta. But thanks for the feedback :-)
Does not work on my 64 bit
Ketil (not verified) — Sun, 2008-08-17Does not work on my 64 bit Hardy :(
Unfortunately this version
Alex (not verified) — Tue, 2008-08-26Unfortunately this version does not seem to work with konqueror. It works fine with firefox 3 here, but konqueror doesn't display the flash content. The plugin gets loaded but where you normally would see the youtube video, there is just a blank spot. However if you right click on this blank spot, you can see the adobe flash menu.
Thanks for your work though - at least it works in firefox.
hi, your recent modification
volkar (not verified) — Thu, 2008-08-28hi,
your recent modification to the packet fails to install ...
can you get back to the prev. version?
uninstalling your package and reinstalling flashnonfree and flashlibsupport
doesn't work either ... anymore ... something is seriously broken ...
greets
jason
Same problem here as volkar
Anonymous (not verified) — Thu, 2008-08-28Same problem here as volkar ( hardy 64 bit )
Same problem. Both latest
Michal Krause (not verified) — Fri, 2008-08-29Same problem. Both latest versions of your package (flashplugin-nonfreebeta_cairo10.0.0.569ubuntu2_amd64.deb and flashplugin-nonfreebeta_cairo10.0.0.569ubuntu4_amd64.deb) failing to install on Ubuntu Hardy 64bit. Flash plugin is correctly downloaded but then installation stops with following message:
Download done.
Flash Plugin installed.
dpkg: error processing flashplugin-nonfreebeta (--install):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 10
Errors were encountered while processing:
flashplugin-nonfreebeta
Previous version (flashplugin-nonfreebeta_cairo10.0.0.569ubuntu1_amd64.deb) works fine, but can be installed only if you uninstall package itself and remove temporary directories manually before:
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/flashplugin-nonfreebeta/
sudo apt-get purge flashplugin-nonfreebeta
sudo dpkg -i flashplugin-nonfreebeta_cairo10.0.0.569ubuntu4_amd64.deb
Previous version
Markus Thielmann — Fri, 2008-08-29Previous version (flashplugin-nonfreebeta_cairo10.0.0.569ubuntu1_amd64.deb) works fine
Installs fine or actually *works* fine an amd64?
Please see this comment to help me track down the error on amd64.
Thanks!
Version 1 installs and works
Michal Krause (not verified) — Fri, 2008-08-29Version 1 installs and works on Hardy amd64.
I looked on postinst script in version 4 and I found problem. It's on line 101:
db_get flashplugin-nonfree/getlibs
I changed it to
db_get flashplugin-nonfreebeta/getlibs
but it didn't help. If I completely removed this line and following condition, I found another problem with following line:
/usr/bin/getlibs --yes -p ${GETLIBS}
I don't know, how it's possible, but it seems that postinst script never continues after this line (I must say, that I have all required 32bit libraries installed already). I've added debug message (echo "after getlibs") just after this line, but nothing was echoed and dpkg prints following error:
Downloading ...
Installing libraries ...
dpkg: error processing flashplugin-nonfreebeta (--install):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Only way to make it work is to change the getlibs line as follows:
/usr/bin/getlibs --yes -v -p ${GETLIBS} || echo "return code $?"
Of course, it's hack and not real solution (but it shows that getlibs return code is 1 in my case, not 0 as postinst script assumes). After theese changes I was able to install flashplugin-nonfreebeta_cairo10.0.0.569ubuntu4_amd64 and it works in FF3.
No sound! Could it be because
bbauto (not verified) — Fri, 2008-09-05No sound!
Could it be because i have Puls Audio enabled?
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