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#1 2017-04-25 09:14

Pawel Jecek
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Registered: 2017-04-19
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Flash Player for Q4OS Orion?

Hi. I'm the new user of Q4OS. I'm happy with the system, however I do want to use sites that require Flash Player.

I would like to install it either on Chromium or Firefox.

When I enter the Adobe site I have such options:

FP 25.0 for Ubuntu (apt)
FP 25.0 for Linux 32-bit (Yum)
FP 25.0 for Linux 32-bit (.tar.gz)- PPAPI
FP 25.0 for Linux 32-bit (.tar.gz)- NPAPI
FP 25.0 for Linux 32-bit (.rpm)- PPAPI
FP 25.0 for Linux 32-bit (.rpm)- NPAPI

Which one shall I choose? Do I need something additional installed, as there are two options of .rpm and .tar.gz stuff?

...or Shall I install something similar, Q4OS-dedicated instead?

I'm just a "common" user of the system and I have little knowledge on what's inside.

wink

Regards,
Pawel

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#2 2017-04-25 09:46

Dai_trying
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From: UK
Registered: 2015-12-14
Posts: 2,989

Re: Flash Player for Q4OS Orion?

Have you installed flashplugin-nonfree? it usually gives flash support.

Or you could try

Debian Forum wrote:

Just go to

https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/

Download the tar.gz version and unpack libflashplayer.so into ~/.mozilla/plugins/ folder.

I actually copied mine (as root or use sudo) to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ to make it available to all users.

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#3 2017-04-25 15:36

cjoliprsf
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Registered: 2017-04-23
Posts: 71

Re: Flash Player for Q4OS Orion?

Maybe I also need a bit of help on this topic...
Synaptic tells me the flashplugin-nonfree is installed, but I can't see it in Firefox.
How can I make it available for running in Firefox?
Thanks, Claude

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#4 2017-04-25 15:41

Dai_trying
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Registered: 2015-12-14
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Re: Flash Player for Q4OS Orion?

I have noticed the same recently that's why I posted the other solution, the second solution worked for me and does not need flashplugin-nonfree to be removed (although you probably can if you want to).

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#5 2017-04-25 16:01

q4osteam
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Registered: 2015-12-06
Posts: 4,223
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Re: Flash Player for Q4OS Orion?

cjoliprsf wrote:

Synaptic tells me the flashplugin-nonfree is installed, but I can't see it in Firefox.

Yes, there is known bug in 'flashplugin-nonfree' Debian package. At the moment, it doesn't install flashplugin, but we don't recommend to uninstall it, as Q4OS Firefox depends on it. You can safely leave this package installed in your system, as it may be fixed sooner or later. You can safely proceed installation of flashplugin another way in the meantime.

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#6 2017-04-25 18:11

cjoliprsf
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Registered: 2017-04-23
Posts: 71

Re: Flash Player for Q4OS Orion?

OK, downloaded from Adobe and all works fine.
Just one thing that is good to know, Adobe gives the choice of downloading either PPAPI or NPAPI.
After googling a bit, it seems NPAPI should be chosen for Firefox, and PPAPI for Chrome.
Claude

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#7 2017-04-25 20:12

Pawel Jecek
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Registered: 2017-04-19
Posts: 6

Re: Flash Player for Q4OS Orion?

Thanks for all the answers!

I'm back home and I will follow the advices soon!

Thanks again!

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#8 2017-04-28 22:39

phil
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Registered: 2017-04-28
Posts: 3

Re: Flash Player for Q4OS Orion?

The solution is even easier if using Google Chrome...

Open up the settings, enable advanced settings, scroll down to "privacy>content settings", scroll down to "Flash" and choose "allow sites to run flash".  After that Chrome will automatically download it's own pepper-flash plugin, and automatically close & restart to enable the functionality.

The reason I wanted flash enabled was so that I could run a few SWF files (web-browser) games directly from the local disk. It worked out well.

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