So, Fedora 10 is out and that’s absolutely awesome. I just reinstalled my systems (and updated my software guide) and it installed without a glitch.
The only annoying problem I faced is that I got no sound with my Fedora 10 x86-64 linked with the traditional Adobe Yum repository (which provides a 32-Bit Flash version) + libflashsupport. The reason is simple: libflashsupport was removed from Fedora. It has just been replaced by a new solution described on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flash
Another solution to get the sound back is by installing the 64-Bit Flash version which is still in alpha. You probably want a howto? Here it is…
- cd /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/ (this is where your Firefox plugins are)
- wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.32.18.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz (to download the Flash plugin)
- tar -xvzf libflashplayer-10.0.32.18.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz (to extract the plugin)
Restart Firefox and it works.
yum install alsa-lib.i386 alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i386
should work using flash-plugin.i386 too.
But a stable native flash-plugin.x86_64 build… sooner the better.
Forgot to mention, flash10 shouldn’t need or require libflashsupport anymore. As a matter of fact, having it installed was found to cause more problems (which is why it was removed prior to f10 release).
Thanks for posting this. I’m getting ready to upgrade my home “server” to F10 64 and you saved me a lot of time!
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Thanks for this post, nice and concise, and a real time saver (after I already wasted a half hour scouring Fedora forums)
Thank you for this post, I just installed fedora 10 on my PC and you can help me a lot.
Hiya
Thanks for the info on the _64 flash plugin , was short, helpful and worked.
Ta!
Thanks, I needed that!!!
I was just about to download the 32bit version and give up on 64! Your instructions worked. Wish I’d seen this article earlier. It’s these little irritations that make upgrading such a pain sometime.
Ernie
This is the simplest explaination on how to resolve one of the most common problem on using an x86_64 system. Thanx for sharing! XD
thanks for the info. Going to youtube I get video now, but still no sound at all. Any ideas?
Did you remove nspluginwrapper?
Suggestion, please.
On Ubuntu 8.04 with Firefox 3.0.
Into /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins got
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 3714828 2008-12-24 14:00 libflashplayer-10.0.d21.1.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
Did
tar -xvzf libflashplayer-10.0.d21.1.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
which created
-rwxr-xr-x 1 user user 9526312 2008-12-10 12:13 libflashplayer.so
Restarted firefox 3.0, went to site to test flash and it failed.
RE: post Dec 22, 2008.
No, I did not remove nspluginwrapper.
Do I need to?
How do I?
I see lots of them. And files with nspluginwrapper as part of it.
For example:
./var/lib/dpkg/info/nspluginwrapper.list
./usr/bin/nspluginwrapper
What did I do wrong?
Thanks
I don’t know how it’s handeled in Ubuntu, but in theory you can uninstall nspluginwrapper via your software manager.
Removed nsplugwrapper using synaptic package manager.
Restarted Firefox, redid tar extract in /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins
and website testing indicate flash is not installed.
Then it’s probably an Ubuntu problem. I only support Fedora. sorry.
Thanks for your replies.
Howard
This worked fine for my Fedora 10 x86_64 (2.6.27.9-159.fc10.x86_64).
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Worked perfectly. Thank you!
thanks for this, nice concise howto
i also like how you detail exactly what each line of code does
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Installed F10 x86_64 from DVD install disk 2 days ago…
Upgraded to KDE 4.2 yesterday from KDE Project repos…
No sound in flashplayer…
Followed this how-to to the letter (copy and paste)…
Removed nspluginwrapper with yumex…
Re-did the how-to…
and still no sound on youtube. Sound works great in Amarok, etc.
Next I will try removing pulseaudio, which has caused some issues on previous installations of F10…
Update… following your how-to, and then removing pulseaudio did the trick. Thanks!
I’ve been forced to re-apply this fix after running updates in my system. Not sure why, sound stopped working again, I removed libflashsupport.so and re-applied the one in this guide and it started working again..
Great h-to! Thank you!
Works perfectly. X86_64 F10 and now flash…simply awesome. (Lenovo T61)
Thanks, works fine in my FC10:
2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64
you save my day!!, after a while reading and trying several solutions finally works, tested in youtube & southparkstudios
Hi, I have recently installed f10 x86_64 on my laptop (HP tx2000). The problem is that I cannot hear any sound–neither through speaker nor through headphone. No software can play sound ( I tried mplayer, amarok). No sound from youtube too. The sound card is ATI SBx00 azalia. I searched internet about this problem but did not get any solution. Can anybody please help?
All I did was unpack the 64-bit plugin (libflashplayer.so) from adobe in ~/.mozilla/plugins and it worked.
It works too, but only for your user. The solution proposed in this blogpost is valid for every user on your system.