Comments on: nspluginwrapper HOWTO for Debian Sid

By: Maximiliano

Maximiliano — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:09:54 +0000

This was my solution,

Add to /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main contrib non-free

Run
#apt-get update
#apt-get -t etch-backports install flashplugin-nonfree

By: Maximiliano

Maximiliano — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:42:32 +0000

I've done all about this tutorial, but when I open youtube flash is not there.
The libraries are in their place, added with nspluginwrapper -v -i ./lib..
If some one have any idea, thank's.

By: Sheldon Ross

Sheldon Ross — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:04:34 +0000

Don't know if anyone would still be looking at this, but this is the only reference I can find. I can't get nspluginwrapper to install the veetleplugin. (http://www.veetle.com)

When I try it, I get the no appropriate viewer found error.

"nspluginwrapper -i ./libveetle-player-plugin.so
nspluginwrapper: no appropriate viewer found for ./libveetle-player-plugin.so"

Anyone thoughts?

By: Adam Trickett

Adam Trickett — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:16:12 +0000

I've just installed nspluginwrapper on Lenny. I installed the RealPlayer and Flash plugins to both Iceape and Iceweasel. Both systems report that they have both plugins installed, but only Iceape is able run flash files.

I see that flashplugin-nonfree is now in Lenny proper for AMD so maybe I'll try that to see if it fixes something.

By: Rob Andrews

Rob Andrews — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 18:56:22 +0000

Oh, furthermore - each package goes into testing after 10 days of being in unstable, so it should be in testing/contrib as well as unstable/contrib!

By: Rob Andrews

Rob Andrews — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 18:55:33 +0000

Hi, I'm the Debian nspluginwrapper author.

To report a bug, use the commandline tool 'reportbug', and the bug will be raised in the Debian BTS where it will receive my (relatively!) swift attention.

I'm interested in the npviewer problem you have mentioned. This issue hasn't been raised by anyone else, nor has it affected me, and as you can imagine I crash test the plugin quite a lot. If you are willing to provide a little more debug output for me, I can try and get to the root of the problem. E-mail me if this is okay and I will send you a list of instructions to try and track the problem down.

Kind regards,
rob.

By: Pierre

Pierre — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:54:39 +0000

Oh, actually, I think ndiswrapper doesn't understand relative pathes at all.
I've created a special directory to store libflashplayer.so (/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins32/ , idea taken from http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/nspluginwrapper) and then :
nspluginwrapper -v -i /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins32/libflashplayer.so

Now, flash is installed and work.

By: Pierre

Pierre — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:27:37 +0000

Thank you very much.
I had to use the same trick as Richard about the "full (relative) path"
Now, flash is installed !

By: Richard Spelling

Richard Spelling — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 01:19:56 +0000

Followed your instructions, very helpful, thanks.

Had to put full (relative) path in to get it to install.

debian4:/home/rlspell/Desktop/install_flash_player_9_linux# nspluginwrapper -v -i libflashplayer.so
*** NSPlugin Viewer *** ERROR: libflashplayer.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
nspluginwrapper: no appropriate viewer found for libflashplayer.so
debian4:/home/rlspell/Desktop/install_flash_player_9_linux# nspluginwrapper -v -i ./libflashplayer.so
Install plugin ./libflashplayer.so
into /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
And create symlink to plugin in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins: done.
And create symlink to plugin in /usr/lib/firefox/plugins: done.
And create symlink to plugin in /usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins: done.
debian4:/home/rlspell/Desktop/install_flash_player_9_linux#