[How To]Get Java plugin & Flash work on a 64bit Distro

[vish786]

Running a 32bit Browser on a 64bit Distro.

Pissed off with Flash and Java not working on a 64bit Distro ? here's a pretty simple guide to get sites to load java applets & flash.

Before proceeding, there is no javaplugin for a 64bit browser so all am doing is getting a 32bit_firefox along with required plugins to get it work on 64bit distro.
You can retain your existing version for firefox and use it too.

Download firefox & copy it to your home directory, run

tar xvf firefox<version>

Download Jdk(java development kit) or you can get Jre(java runtime env) & save some space.
In terminal:

mkdir /home/<username>/java && cd /home/<username>/java

now copy jdk<version> to /home/<username>/java

chmod 777 jdk<version>
./jdk<version>

creating link for java plugin

ln -s  /home/<username>/java/jdk1.6.0_03/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so /home/<username>/firefox<version>/firefox/plugins/

copy the libflashplayer.so file to "/home/<username>/firefox<version>/firefox/plugins/"
For Firefox shortcut

ln -s /home/<username>/firefox<version>/firefox/firefox /home/<username>/firefox

you can directly run 32bit firefox from home dir by typing "./firefox".

To check if flash plugin is working play any youtube video & for java plugin opening <click here> will offer typing test.

Note: you cannot use older and downloaded firefox versions at same instance.
bookmarks,cache,addons vary for both versions.

 

[kalpik]

Not really needed anymore. Adobe has released a 64 bit flash plugin (alpha) which work GREAT! OpenJDK has a 64 bit java plugin. Sun has also released a 64 bit beta java plugin in JRE-6update12 (beta).

 

[Hitboxx]

And you missed one important point, while on 32bit, you also need i386 versions of nspluginwrapper and alsa/pulseaudio libs to make it work.

 

[kalpik]

^^ No.. His method installs a 32 bit firefox itself. Nspluginwrapper is not required. But yeah, some 32 bit libs might be needed. Its just a very messy way IMO.

 

[vish786]

And you missed one important point, while on 32bit, you also need i386 versions of nspluginwrapper and alsa/pulseaudio libs to make it work.

ofc I have included i386 nspluginwrapper

& yes it definitely requires extra gtk libraries which messes up firefox looks but doesnt matter to that extent.

beta version of 64bit plugins are available but just tried a different way to get it work.

 

[Hitboxx]

Hmm included where? I don't see it

And copying the flashplayer plugin to /usr folder would be a better idea than into /home as obvious it is, to work across all users of the system.

Personal preferences

 

[vish786]

Hmm included where? I don't see it

link blindness(as in colour blindness)?? click on libflashplayer.so

 

[Hitboxx]

LoL, how are we supposed to know what is the content of the links if you don't mention it? I was searching the word in your post, you have not mentioned about it nor given any hints of its existence

Nonetheless it is ok, regular Linux users ought to be setup the way they want and new users would probably ask and search, so not a big deal.