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[edit] Updated Information for new installations! Use the information in this section

[edit] Flash and Java plugins

To install Flash Player and Java, run

pacman -S flashplugin jre
You may need to install ttf-ms-fonts (pacman -S ttf-ms-fonts) for flashplayer to render text properly.

That should work! (*Note for Arch64: j2re will still not work for your browser - at this point in time (Oct 13 2006), there is still no support in jre-64 for java applets... See http://java.com/en/download/manual.jsp#note)


If plugins don't work at all in Firefox check the permissions of /usr/lib/mozilla. In my case only root was allowed to read files.

% cd /usr/lib/mozilla
cd: permission denied: /usr/lib/mozilla
% chmod 755 /usr/lib/mozilla
% chmod 755 /usr/lib/mozilla/extensions


To change your general plugin preferences (especially the privacy settings), you have to go to the Macromedia website. There a flash animation will give you access to your local settings.

Macromedia Flash Settings

[edit] Adobe Reader

Due to licensing restrictions, Adobe Reader cannot be distributed from any of the normal Arch repos. There is a version available on the AUR here. If you use yaourt, run:

yaourt -S --aur acroread

There are localisations available in many languages, check the AUR for your language.

yaourt -Ss --aur acroread-

Please note that no matter how many votes it receives, this package will never be included in the community repo. See comment by Snowman here.

[edit] Fixing Flash in Konqueror

pacman -S kmplayer

Run kmplayer to make sure it creates a config file and then close kmplayer. Open "~/.kde/share/config/kmplayerrc" with a text editor of your choice and add this to the ending:

[application/x-shockwave-flash]
player=npp
plugin=/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

Check the plugin line if it is correct by doing:

slocate libflashplayer.so

If it is not correct then change it to the correct filepath. Open Konqueror and go to Settings > Configure Konqueror > File Associations, navigate to "application/x-shockwave-flash" and click on the "Embedding" tab and click "Add.." and select "Embedded MPlayer for KDE" and click "Ok". Make sure "Embedded MPlayer for KDE" is on the top. Click "Ok". Now it should work, if it doesn't you might have to restart konqueror and/or KDE.

Reference: http://mikearthur.co.uk/?p=171


[edit] Old information for reference on old installations... Or whatever (OUTDATED)

[edit] Using Mozilla

[edit] For Adobe Acrobat Reader plugin

pacman -S acroread
ln -s /opt/mozilla-plugins/nppdf.so /opt/mozilla/lib/mozilla/plugins/

[edit] For Shockwave Flash

pacman -S flashplugin
ln -s /opt/mozilla-plugins/flashplayer.xpt /opt/mozilla/lib/mozilla/plugins/
ln -s /opt/mozilla-plugins/libflashplayer.so /opt/mozilla/lib/mozilla/plugins/

Restart Mozilla if it was running.

Note: Flash is known to have bad support for Linux. Flash Player 7 has problems regarding sound output with alot of people. Flash Player 8 and higher are not (yet?) available for Linux!

There is a GNU project going on (Gnash) that should be an open source alternative for showing Flash. As of 17 may 2006 it is still in development, but it is already able to run alot of Flash 7 content.

[edit] Using Mozilla Firefox

[edit] For Adobe Acrobat Reader plugin

pacman -S acroread
ln -s /opt/mozilla-plugins/nppdf.so /opt/mozilla/lib/firefox/plugins/

[edit] For Shockwave Flash

pacman -S flashplugin ttf-ms-fonts
ln -s /opt/mozilla-plugins/flashplayer.xpt /opt/mozilla/lib/firefox/plugins/
ln -s /opt/mozilla-plugins/libflashplayer.so /opt/mozilla/lib/firefox/plugins/

Note: Flash is known to have bad support for Linux. Flash Player 7 has problems regarding sound output with alot of people. Flash Player 8 and higher are not (yet?) available for Linux!

Note: Also works with Firefox3; replace /opt/mozilla/lib/firefox/plugins with /opt/mozilla/lib/firefox-3.0/plugins

There is a GNU project going on (Gnash) that should be an open source alternative for showing Flash. As of 17 may 2006 it is still in development, but it is already able to run alot of Flash 7 content.

Alternate way

Visit http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/ and download the Adobe Flash player .tar.gz file. Unpack it and execute the flashplayer-installer as root.

./flashplayer-installer

The script will ask for location of the browswer. For Firefox, enter

/usr/lib/firefox

Restart Firefox. Repeat for any browsers installed.

[edit] For Java Plugin

pacman -S jre
ln -s /opt/java/jre/plugin/i386/ns7-gcc29/libjavaplugin_oji.so /opt/mozilla/lib/firefox/plugins/

(for me it's: ln -s /opt/java/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so /opt/mozilla/lib/firefox/plugins/, note the missing gcc29)

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[edit] For Arch64 users

Install Flash on Arch64

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