FLASH 9

[statyk]

I was fine only having flash 7 working on my Kubuntu system until recently. More and more sites seem to be moving to flash 9 and require you to have it to view thier sites. Well I just found this (though many of you probably already have) and thought of sharing it.

You can download flash 9 beta from Adobe Labs, which so far has worked great!

Get it here

http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer9.html

I just copied the flash###.so file to my profile ~/.mozilla/plugins folder (which I had to create) then restarted firefox and presto!

Hope its just that easy for you!

[someguyouknow]

Re: FLASH 9

too bad it doesnt work well in Opera

[statyk]

Re: FLASH 9

yeah that is too bad... damn adobe
I guess its either wait another six months or so for the final release and see if it works then or load up firefox and wait around 30-60 seconds (depending on your system)
The great thing about linux is that the choice is yours!!

Have fun

[vanaedium]

Re: FLASH 9

hi
I tried to substitute the old libflashplayer.so with the new beta one and opera recognize it but doesn't work well, but in Firefox the aboutlugins say version 7.0 r25 again.
I tried this site www.gumbodylight.com that requieres flash 8

I searched every libflashplayer.so into my system and I find

/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins
/usr/lib/flashplayer-nonfree/
of course my_home/.mozilla/plugins

and a lot of links direct to flashplayer-nonfree

What have I to do to see the 9.0.11 version?
Help thanx

[someguyouknow]

Re: FLASH 9

maybe you can try taking it from the repo?

##### Treviño's Ubuntu Repository
##(for Flash 9 Beta)
##deb http://3v1n0.tuxfamily.org dapper 3v1n0
##deb-src http://3v1n0.tuxfamily.org dapper 3v1n0

it works for edgy as well... you can also try automatix2

[Fenyx]

Re: FLASH 9

Better yet, use the repository made by Seveas, an Ubuntu developer. You can get the instructions here:

http://seveas.imbrandon.com/dists/edgy-seveas/custom/

Take note that Flash 9 on Linux is still beta software. It may or may not work, and if it doesn't work, don't expect to get full 100% support from Ubuntu (as it is in multiverse in the first place). Of course, that doesn't mean that no one will try to help you out.

Other than that, go and have fun! :P

[T.Louis]

Re: FLASH 9

I was fine only having flash 7 working on my Kubuntu system until recently.  More and more sites seem to be moving to flash 9 and require you to have it to view thier sites.  Well I just found this (though many of you probably already have) and thought of sharing it.

You can download flash 9 beta from Adobe Labs, which so far has worked great! 

Get it here

http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer9.html

I just copied the flash###.so file to my profile ~/.mozilla/plugins folder (which I had to create) then restarted firefox and presto!

Hope its just that easy for you!

I also replaced the flashlibplayer.so from the Flash 9 Beta download and man am I happy. It not only fixed the sync problem I had in Konqueror but also for some reason the playback is smoother.

The only thing that is a bit annoying is that on some very new flash animations (e.g. www.worldofwarcraft.com) I get a bit of a frame around the animation, but I believe it is due to the Flash Player 9 itself as it happens under Firefox 2.0 on a gnome desktop also.

[sideshowbob]

Re: FLASH 9

I upgraded to Flash 9, and it was easy enough, of course, but then 1:30 into a youtube video, it crashed (firefox closed) and crashed each subsequent time afterwards. I went back to Flash 7, and it workey just fine. Any others have this problem and is there a solution?

[vanaedium]

Re: FLASH 9

Shockwave Flash

Nome file: libflashplayer.so
Shockwave Flash 7.0 r25

Tipo MIME Descrizione Estensione Attivo
application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf Sì
application/futuresplash FutureSplash Player spl Sì

Hi
I used the repository with deb packages for dapper and I've been in the warcraft site and it works (with right click I can see "Adobe Flash Player 9"!) but in the aboutlugins tab you can see that everything is still in that way and the gumbody light site doen't work yet. I've tried the new flash in firefox for windows and the gumbody site works...........why??
Is the italian understandble? I hope yes

[vanaedium]

Re: FLASH 9

Shockwave Flash

Nome file: libflashplayer.so
Shockwave Flash 9.0 d55

Tipo MIME Descrizione Estensione Attivo
application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf Sì
application/futuresplash FutureSplash Player spl Sì

Yesssssssssss
To obtain this I erased the files into /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree and I copied the libflashplayer.so in that directory. In this way firefox works.

Thanx to all