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#1 2016-10-25 01:05:22

bobhund
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pepperflash troubles after installing from bl-welcome script [solved]

I have been looking around to see if I could find an answer to this, with no luck. If I have missed it pleas excuse.

I have installed the pepperflash plugin with the bl-welcome script. But it does not work. I tried to install chrome in the hope it would work there but no luck.

Any suggestions?

Last edited by bobhund (2016-10-27 20:26:12)

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#2 2016-10-25 01:23:49

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Re: pepperflash troubles after installing from bl-welcome script [solved]

I should note, that firefox sends error about fail to load libpepflashplayer.so

I tried to run the bl-welcome script again, but it says pepperflash is installed

I also checked firefox plugins and it has shockwaveflash installed

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#3 2016-10-25 01:35:06

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Re: pepperflash troubles after installing from bl-welcome script [solved]

You're right in that firefox-esr needs the libpepflashplayer.so module.

To get this you need to download and install two packages, but first  do

mkdir  ~/.mozilla/plugins


To download the required packages,   You'll need to have jessie-backports in your source file

deb http://http.debian.net/debian jessie-backports main contrib

then:

apt-get install pepperflashplugin-nonfree   

then download the wrapper. This enables firefox to make use of the pepperflash api. This one isn't backported so you don't need to make use of the jessie-backports source line.

apt-get install browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash

(oh yea make sure your sources are up to date!)

Last edited by Horizon_Brave (2016-10-25 01:40:30)


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#4 2016-10-25 07:18:47

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Re: pepperflash troubles after installing from bl-welcome script [solved]

Hi bobhund, welcome to BunsenLabs!

First, is your computer a 32 bit (i386) or 64 bit (amd64) system?

There used to be a 32 bit version of pepperflashplugin-nonfree , but Google no longer provide google-chrome for 32 bit, so the current bl-welcome will fail on 32 bit machines, because it tries to install pepperflashplugin-nonfree. browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash comes in 32bit versions, though, so Firefox, looking at that, will think it has a flash plugin. The error is coming from the freshplayer wrapper, failing to find a usable libpepflashplayer.so

btw @Horizon_Brave the backports are the other way round: pepperflashplugin-nonfree is in contrib and browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash is in jessie-backports.

If you have a 64 bit system, however, there is a different problem - it should have worked OK.

Apologies for the failure with the welcome script - we are hoping to release a new one in a few weeks. Meanwhile, for both 32 and 64 bit systems there is now a package in the BunsenLabs repositories bunsen-pepperflash. Install that, and browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash, and flash should work in both Firefox and Chromium.


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#5 2016-10-25 08:07:29

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Re: pepperflash troubles after installing from bl-welcome script [solved]

Hi thanks for the answer.

I did as you described. But in each step I got the reply that the newest where allready installed after running the commands.

Also when I look in the chrome path I can see that pepperflash is also installed there.

I also made sure to update & upgrade

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#6 2016-10-25 08:20:15

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Re: pepperflash troubles after installing from bl-welcome script [solved]

Are you using a 32bit or 64 bit computer?

Have you installed bunsen-pepperflash? I would be very surprised if it was already on your system.
'sudo apt-get install bunsen-pepperflash'


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#7 2016-10-25 08:52:41

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Re: pepperflash troubles after installing from bl-welcome script [solved]

Hi John, thanks a lot that actually helped for chrome. However firefox now gives me an error that adobe-flash broke? I have not installed adobe flahs I have to add.

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#8 2016-10-25 09:27:29

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Re: pepperflash troubles after installing from bl-welcome script [solved]

to be more specific it does not say it broke in firefox, it says it failed to load

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#9 2016-10-25 10:17:03

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Re: pepperflash troubles after installing from bl-welcome script [solved]

bobhund wrote:

firefox now gives me an error that adobe-flash broke? I have not installed adobe flahs I have to add.

Please post the output of:

apt-cache policy browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash bunsen-pepperflash

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#10 2016-10-25 18:19:46

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Re: pepperflash troubles after installing from bl-welcome script [solved]

Head_on_a_stick   browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash:

  Installeret: 0.3.5-1~bpo8+1
  Kandidat:    0.3.5-1~bpo8+1
  Versionstabel:
 *** 0.3.5-1~bpo8+1 0
        100 http://http.debian.net/debian/ jessie-backports/contrib amd64 Packages
        100 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie-backports/contrib amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
bunsen-pepperflash:
  Installeret: 8.0-1
  Kandidat:    8.0-1
  Versionstabel:
 *** 8.0-1 0
        500 http://pkg.bunsenlabs.org/debian/ bunsen-hydrogen/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2016-10-25 18:41:40)

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#11 2016-10-25 18:41:25

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Re: pepperflash troubles after installing from bl-welcome script [solved]

I think I know what that says but just to be sure can we see:

LC_ALL=C apt-cache policy browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash bunsen-pepperflash

Also, please use code tags when posting terminal output, I have edited your post to show you how it is done.

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#12 2016-10-25 18:46:50

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Re: pepperflash troubles after installing from bl-welcome script [solved]

Head-on-a-stick, I was just wandering if terminal output was considered code. Here is the output.

browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash:
  Installed: 0.3.5-1~bpo8+1
  Candidate: 0.3.5-1~bpo8+1
  Version table:
 *** 0.3.5-1~bpo8+1 0
        100 [url]http://http.debian.net/debian/[/url] jessie-backports/contrib amd64 Packages
        100 [url]http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/[/url] jessie-backports/contrib amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
bunsen-pepperflash:
  Installed: 8.0-1
  Candidate: 8.0-1
  Version table:
 *** 8.0-1 0
        500 [url]http://pkg.bunsenlabs.org/debian/[/url] bunsen-hydrogen/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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#13 2016-10-25 18:53:41

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Re: pepperflash troubles after installing from bl-welcome script [solved]

How strange, the necessary packages are installed so that should work hmm

Is the Flash library in place?

update-bunsen-pepperflash --status

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#14 2016-10-25 18:56:35

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Re: pepperflash troubles after installing from bl-welcome script [solved]

Seems like it

Checking Flash version available from Adobe...
Upstream version: 23.0.0.185
Installed version: 23.0.0.185
You already have the newest version.

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#15 2016-10-25 19:08:43

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Re: pepperflash troubles after installing from bl-welcome script [solved]

So just to confirm: Chromium works fine and will play Flash stuff but Firefox will not?

If you start Firefox from a terminal and attempt to use Flash, are there any errors printed to the terminal?

If so, post them here.

If not, please post a screenshot of the Flash error message given by Firefox (preferably as a thumbnail link out of respect for forum users with limited bandwidth).

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#16 2016-10-25 19:22:43

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Re: pepperflash troubles after installing from bl-welcome script [solved]

You could try editing the file at ~/.config/freshwrapper.conf then add this line:

pepperflash_path = "/opt/google/chrome/PepperFlash/libpepflashplayer.so"

I may be wrong about the location of libpepflashplayer.so, check for the correct full path with:

sudo find / -name libpepflashplayer.so

More troubleshooting suggestions here:

https://github.com/i-rinat/freshplayerp … -issues.md

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#17 2016-10-26 03:53:18

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Re: pepperflash troubles after installing from bl-welcome script [solved]

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

You could try editing the file at ~/.config/freshwrapper.conf then add this line:

pepperflash_path = "/opt/google/chrome/PepperFlash/libpepflashplayer.so"

I may be wrong about the location of libpepflashplayer.so,...

Yes I'm afraid that's not right. To keep things tidy, bunsen-pepperflash installs it to /usr/lib/bunsen-pepperflash/libpepflashplayer.so and configures the freshwrapper plugin at /etc/freshwrapper.conf with

## This line added by /usr/sbin/update-bunsen-pepperflash ##
pepperflash_path = "/usr/lib/bunsen-pepperflash/libpepflashplayer.so"

There is no ~/.config/freshwrapper.conf by default. This seemed to me to be something that should be set at the system level.

@bobhunt please post the information HoaS requested here: https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 311#p39311

Last edited by johnraff (2016-10-26 03:54:49)


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#18 2016-10-27 04:27:04

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Re: pepperflash troubles after installing from bl-welcome script [solved]

Hi John, and head-on-a-stick. Heres the output from the terminal

.config/google-chrome/PepperFlash/23.0.0.205/libpepflashplayer.so
/usr/lib/bunsen-pepperflash/libpepflashplayer.so

For some strange reason flash all of sudden started working. I have been trying to pinpoint if I been doing something different, but I cant think of anything. And there have not been any upgrade of packages either, when I have been running apt-get upgrade and apt-get update.

Last edited by bobhund (2016-10-27 04:27:46)

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#19 2016-10-27 04:34:05

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Re: pepperflash troubles after installing from bl-welcome script [solved]

Maybe it just needed a restart of Firefox?


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#20 2016-10-27 18:31:46

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Re: pepperflash troubles after installing from bl-welcome script [solved]

I am completely sure I restarted firefox, but maybe one needs to restart the whole computer? But with my limit knowledge the error messages given, do not seem to give the impression of the need for a restart.

Anyways, I am very happy it works now. Thank you for the help.

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