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Npapi - Adobe Flash Player - Linux - Help needed!

Unread post by Lins31 » 2021-01-23, 15:18

Npapi - Adobe Flash Player - Linux - Help needed!

How do I install Npapi - Adobe Flash Player - libflashplayer.so
It keeps getting blocked by Firefox :-(
Im on Linux Mint 19.3

issue:- our game https://s1.miramagia.com/ uses Flash - and action script 3
(approx 2000 users of .com and 4x 1000 users of .de)
We have quite a mature set of members - Ive been playing since 2013
How do we create a easy to follow install guide for all our Linux, Mac + others ? (with npapi flashplayer and maybe link to Miramagia)

:D Palemoon is very easy to set up

( :oops: Brazil - may be our users found a solution)

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Re: Npapi - Adobe Flash Player - Linux - Help needed!

Unread post by Moonchild » 2021-01-23, 15:38

Not sure if it's blocked from certain geos but the flash movie doesn't seem to want to load for me (in Windows). Flash itself initializes just fine.
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Re: Npapi - Adobe Flash Player - Linux - Help needed!

Unread post by Moonraker » 2021-01-23, 20:14

This is what i do on puppy linux.I download the flash tarball and only extract the "libflashplayer.so" into the mozilla plugins folder.
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Re: Npapi - Adobe Flash Player - Linux - Help needed!

Unread post by ron_1 » 2021-01-23, 20:36

Moonraker wrote:
2021-01-23, 20:14
This is what i do on puppy linux.I download the flash tarball and only extract the "libflashplayer.so" into the mozilla plugins folder.
And where is that folder located? If you don't have any plugins installed, does the folder need to be created?

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Re: Npapi - Adobe Flash Player - Linux - Help needed!

Unread post by Lins31 » 2021-01-23, 21:40

Thank you for such a quick response :lol: :clap:

Re where to find the folder - for me its in
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

I pasted my libflashplayer.so and flash is back again :D

After much internet searching .....
I note Mozilla is stopping the import of all versions less than V32.0.0.443
This doesn't exist. The only versions after this are .445 .453 and .465

to quote https://blocked.cdn.mozilla.net/
Oct 19, 2020: Flash Player Plugin on Linux 32.0.0.443 and older (click-to-play)
Oct 19, 2020: Flash Player Plugin 32.0.0.443 and older (click-to-play)

However Adobe has installed a kill switch in all the newer versions
Latest version without a kill switch is V32.0.0.363

Hope this helps too ;)

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Re: Npapi - Adobe Flash Player - Linux - Help needed!

Unread post by Moonraker » 2021-01-23, 22:24

ron_1 wrote:
2021-01-23, 20:36
Moonraker wrote:
2021-01-23, 20:14
This is what i do on puppy linux.I download the flash tarball and only extract the "libflashplayer.so" into the mozilla plugins folder.
And where is that folder located? If you don't have any plugins installed, does the folder need to be created?
For me on puplinux as has been said in above post..it is in usr/lib/mozilla/plugins...of course you can create the folder yourself.
i am using flash version 32.0.0.171 and have had no problems with the flash sites which remain.

I have downloaded approximately 30,000 flash swf game files and palemoon can play these just fine as it is the "only" browser which allows the always activate function with the plugin.
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Re: Npapi - Adobe Flash Player - Linux - Help needed!

Unread post by Cassiopeya » 2021-01-25, 15:52

Hi, I'm also an user of Miramagia game, but differently from lins my plugins do not see the shockwave flash plugin to run the game.
I have linux mint 20 and I'm absolutely not expert.

what should I do?

help please

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Unread post by Pentium4User » 2021-01-25, 19:15

Is Adobe Flash installed?
How was it installed?
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Re: Npapi - Adobe Flash Player - Linux - Help needed!

Unread post by Cassiopeya » 2021-01-25, 19:38

I downloaded an old version of flashplayer , version 28.0.0.126
I copied the libflashplayer.so into the firefox-addons directory
I also copied the /usr directory in the respective directories in file system, one by ne, because there is no automatic installation file

but firefox does not detect any flash plugin

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Re: Npapi - Adobe Flash Player - Linux - Help needed!

Unread post by Moonraker » 2021-01-25, 20:42

Cassiopeya wrote:
2021-01-25, 19:38
I downloaded an old version of flashplayer , version 28.0.0.126
I copied the libflashplayer.so into the firefox-addons directory
I also copied the /usr directory in the respective directories in file system, one by ne, because there is no automatic installation file

but firefox does not detect any flash plugin
libflashplayer.so needs to go into usr/lib/mozilla/plugins.
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Re: Npapi - Adobe Flash Player - Linux - Help needed!

Unread post by Cassiopeya » 2021-01-25, 20:48

I don't have it.
I have usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins.

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Re: Npapi - Adobe Flash Player - Linux - Help needed!

Unread post by Lins31 » 2021-01-25, 20:57

Hi Cassi
Your previous installation of Fresh wrapper Ppepi (Ubuntu) - causes problems re flashplugin
When you removed it - wants to install 4 new plugins
At least one gives mouse scroll :o (Zoom in Zoom out) Npapi never managed that!!!

However this uninstall update - is waiting to run
It needs root to be dismounted to run - Fsck

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Re: Npapi - Adobe Flash Player - Linux - Help needed!

Unread post by Kruppt » 2021-01-25, 21:29

On most Debian related distros the flashplayer plug-in resides along
below path, it works on my version of Pale Moon 28.17.0

/usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so

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Re: Npapi - Adobe Flash Player - Linux - Help needed!

Unread post by Cassiopeya » 2021-01-25, 21:54

I don't have that path

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Re: Npapi - Adobe Flash Player - Linux - Help needed!

Unread post by Kruppt » 2021-01-25, 22:07

You can create it and copy the .so there.
sudo mkdir -p /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree

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Re: Npapi - Adobe Flash Player - Linux - Help needed!

Unread post by Cassiopeya » 2021-01-25, 22:19

I have created a /mozilla/plugin folder and copied the libflashplayer.so there
now the game finds flashplayer, but it gives me an error: 2032

same error also in palemoon

any idea of what it can be?

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Unread post by Moonraker » 2021-01-25, 22:51

Cassiopeya wrote:
2021-01-25, 22:19
I have created a /mozilla/plugin folder and copied the libflashplayer.so there
now the game finds flashplayer, but it gives me an error: 2032

same error also in palemoon

any idea of what it can be?
Seems to be a streaming error.
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Re: Npapi - Adobe Flash Player - Linux - Help needed!

Unread post by Cassiopeya » 2021-01-25, 22:55

what does it mean?
and how to fix it?

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Re: Npapi - Adobe Flash Player - Linux - Help needed!

Unread post by Night Wing » 2021-01-26, 05:06

@ Cassiopeya

I know you are using Mint 20, but you never stated what DE (desktop environment) you are using. Mint comes in four DE's basically which are: LMDE which are for power users, Cinnamon, MATE and Xfce. They are slightly different and I know because I used Cinnamon and MATE and I didn't care for either one. But Xfce was my cup of tea so to speak. Very easy to learn and highly customizable so I run 64 bit linux Mint 20.1 (Ulyssa) Xfce.

Your big mistake was going to the Adobe site and downloading Flash from there. You should never have done that because now, you've messed up Flash where it won't work in linux Pale Moon. I suspect the damage is done and you'll need the commands to use in the Terminal to repair the damage you made. And I don't deal with the linux Terminal so I can't help you. The best thing is to go to the Linux Mint Forum, become a member and tell them what you've done.

https://forums.linuxmint.com/

The instructions below are for Xfce. But they should be similar for Cinnamon or MATE.

The Flash plugin to use for linux Pale Moon is in the Mint repository. All you had to do was left click on your Whisker Menu and find System. Then hover over System with your cursor and the menu will change. Find the Synaptic Package Manager in that menu. You should have left clicked on the Synaptic Package Manager and immediately you would have gotten the Authentication window to show up which asks for your Password.

You put in your password and then it takes you to the Synaptic Package Manager. Then look for Search in the far right side near the the top in the SPM. Left click on that and you come to the Search box. In the Search box you should have typed:

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flashplugin-installer
Then left click on Search at the bottom of the window and "flashplugin-installer" would have been listed and to the immediate left is an empty square box telling you the flash plugin is not installed. Then you "right click" on the that and another window opens up where you would have "left clicked" on the words, "Mark for installation". Then after that, there is a check mark or an "X" in the box which tells you it is ready to be installed. Then left click (near top upper left side) the word, Apply.

Now if there are any other packages to be installed with Flash, another window will open up listing more packages and you will left click on the word Apply in that window which is near the bottom of that window. If not, the first Apply will install the Flash plugin automatically for you.

But the above probably won't work now because you went to Adobe and downloaded a version you should not have and again, you've inadvertently messed up your Mint to work with Flash in linux Pale Moon.
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Re: Npapi - Adobe Flash Player - Linux - Help needed!

Unread post by Cassiopeya » 2021-01-26, 07:29

thanks for your very detailed answer.

I have Mint Cinnamon 20,04

i have followed your instructions and found the flashplugin-installer.
but as you said id didn't work. after the installation tentative an error message appears listing the following information:

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It says that they are configured multiple times in the respective repositories.

is this what you meant?

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