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Recent Installed Pipelight Mint 16 -- Two version of Flash Issue

Asked by Chente Su

I recently installed Pipelight in Linux Mint 16 Cinnamon and now I have two version of Flash. I only have Firefox 28 and no other browser. I followed the instruction from the FDS-Team (http://fds-team.de/cms/pipelight-installation.html#section_2_3) to remove the symlink of the NPAPI Linux plugin and replace it with a symlink to Pipelight. Opened the terminal and entered these command lines:

1. sudo update-alternatives --install "/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so" "mozilla-flashplugin" /usr/lib/pipelight/libpipelight-flash.so
2. sudo update-alternatives --set mozilla-flashplugin /usr/lib/pipelight/libpipelight-flash.so

I still both version of flash enabled. How can I disable the native flash 11 and just use the flash 13 from Pipelight? or How can I remove the native flash 11 completely?

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Michael Müller (mqchael) said : 		#1

Hi,

Can you open "about:plugins" in Firefox and copy the Path to the plugins? Seems like you have some additional file or link which is not there by default.

I do not recommend it, but if you want to remove the original flash version, you can do this by executing:

sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-installer

Michael

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Chente Su (chentesu) said : 		#2

Thank you Michael for your response.
I'm having trouble putting the command line together. Can you help me put the command line together?

Native shockwave flash:
Path: /opt/mint-flashplugin-11/libflashplayer.so

Pipelight shockwave flash:
Path: /usr/lib/pipelight/libpipelight-flash.so

I tried this, but nothing changed:

1. sudo update-alternatives --install "/opt/mint-flashplugin-11/libflashplayer.so" "mozilla-flashplugin" /usr/lib/pipelight/libpipelight-flash.so
2. sudo update-alternatives --set mozilla-flashplugin /usr/lib/pipelight/libpipelight-flash.so

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Sebastian Lackner (slackner) said : 		#3

Hi,

I'm not sure why you want to put the name of the linux flash plugin into the commandline - the instructions on the website should work exactly as they were written, no need to replace filenames in there. Did you try this?
If it doesn't work: What is the content of /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins ?

By the way: With the next release of the Pipelight plugin this problem will not occur anymore, and you can use pipelight flash although multiple flash plugins are installed. There was a problem with the version number of Flash reported to Firefox, but this should be fixed in the daily branch (if there was a recent build).

Regards,
Sebastian

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Michael Müller (mqchael) said : 		#4

Hi,

this question was already answered in https://answers.launchpad.net/pipelight/+question/247393

Michael

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Michael Müller (mqchael) said : 		#5

Already answered in different question from the same person