The Stone Edge

My system is OpenSUSE 10.1 x64 on Athlon 64 X2 3800+. Since Adobe released Flash 9 for Linux a few weeks ago, I have been trying to install the plugin for the Firefox 2.0 (64bit), but with no luck. The reason is that the plugin is 32bit, which doesn’t work well with the 64bit Firefox. After some research, today I finally get it done by using nspluginwrapper. Here is how I did it:

1. Download nspluginwrapper
   According to the author of nspluginwrapper, “nspluginwrapper is an Open Source compatibility plugin for Netscape 4 (NPAPI) plugins. That is, it enables you to use plugins on platforms they were not built for. For example, you can use the Adobe Flash plugin on Linux/x86_64, NetBSD and FreeBSD platforms.” Currently the latest version is 0.9.91.2. You will need both the plugin and the viewer.
2. Install plugins
   # install the viewer; You have to install the viewer first
# because the plugin depends on it.
rpm -Uvh nspluginwrapper-i386-0.9.91.2-1.x86_64.rpm
# install the plugin
rpm -Uvh nspluginwrapper-0.9.91.2-1.x86_64.rpm
3. Use the nspluginwrapper to wrap the flash plugin
   I assume the flash plugin has already been installed. If not, go to YaST / Software Management and search for “flash” and install it. After the installation, you should find a file /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so. Now we need to wrap it:
   nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
4. Now restart the Firefox and go to YouTube, you should be able to watch those great video clips.

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