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Replace Pipelight Flash and Disable Native Flash?

Asked by Chente Su

I'm having trouble putting the command line together to remove the symlink of the NPAPI Linux plugin and replace it with a symlink to Pipelight. 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 both flash are still enabled.

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

Help!

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monkeybrain2012 (kammon101) said : 		#1

You don't need to disable one.
After running your update-alternatives install command (1), you create an alternative, you can choose which one to use from the list with

sudo update-alternatives --config mozilla-flashplugin

There is also a gui to do the switch called galternatives, you can choose which flash to use by clicking. But unfortunately it is broken in Ubuntu14.04

You need to restart Firefox after making a switch for it to take effect. Personally I don't recommend using pipelight-flash as default, it is not as smooth as native flash when both work (most of the time)

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Chente Su (chentesu) said : 		#2

Thanks for your help. The only reason why I use pipelight-flash is because I can log into ESPN and watch live games (basketball mostly). The native flash is unable to log into my cable account. I tried countless times it don't work. But the Pipelight-flash works. Again, thanks for your help. Much apprecitated.

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Chente Su (chentesu) said : 		#3

Thanks!!