Bug 471793

libflashsupport isn't required/needed on x86_64 too.

As per discussion with Mads on the testing list, I did the following on an X86_64 system.

Uninstalled firefox, opera, nspluginwrapper, libflashsupport and flash-plugin and removed my ~/.mozilla and ~/.opera directories.

Reinstall opera and firefox, 64 bit versions.  As expected, no plugins shown.

Reinstalled flash-plugin.  At this point, opera shows flash installed and works, including sound.  Firefox shows nothing.

Reinstalled nspluginwrapper, both i386 and x86_64.  At this point, with no further user intervention, Firefox also shows plugin and works with sound. 

(Out of curiosity, did a yum search for libflashsupport and got the message that there are no matching package.) 

So, the documentation should be updated to reflect that a) libflashsupport is no longer necessary and b) that it is also no longer necessary to run mozilla-plugin-config.  (As the section is called browsers, it might be worthwhile adding that opera doesn't require nspluginwrapper.)

The issue is that the release notes need to direct the user to install alsa-lib.i386 and alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i386 instead.

And libflashsupport has just been removed completely.

So apparently flash 9 isn't supported in F10 at all and the lines about it can be removed.

And other references to it should be removed too.

Just to further confuse the issue, I've uninstalled alsa-plugins-pulseaudio (on both x86 and x86_64) as it tends to break sound for me.  So I'm not positive that one is a good idea.  

The important thing, I think, is to take out the libflashsupport section.  Otherwise, the new user will try to download it as per the official instructions, and find it doesn't exist.

Ok, to further obfuscate the issue, Adobe has released a 64 bit flash player.  This works without problem for myself and, as noted on Fedora forums, for many others.  It's only in alpha stage at present, but is working perfectly. 

(It's a tarball that can be downloaded at 

http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html

When untarred, it's just a libflashplayer.so
After removing flash-plugin and nspluginwrapper,
copying it into /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins worked perfectly. 

Perhaps the release notes should reflect this possibility as well.

The main issue, in my opinion, are the newcomers.  The experienced user will probably be familiar with the various resources that give specific instructions to install Flash on 64 bit Fedora.

Further comments on Fedora forums show that removing nspluginwrapper can interefere with SELinux.  However, leaving nspluginwrapper (both 32 and 64 bit versions) seem to cause no problems with the 64 bit flash plugin.)

So, my post above should have said, rather than removing flash-plugin and nswrapper, just 
remove flash-plugin

Thanks

The nspluginwrapper issues with SELinux can be "resolved" by changing the appropriate SELinux boolean:

# setsebool -P allow_unconfined_nsplugin_transition=0

I don't know if this is really a behavior to recommend since it essentially opens the user to all sorts of mischief via nspluginwrapped code.  But certainly it's preferable to setting SELinux to disabled or permissive globally, which is one of the "solutions" I've seen in the forums.

Do we really want to recommend alpha software?  I suppose we could note its existence regardless.

(In reply to comment #8)
> The nspluginwrapper issues with SELinux can be "resolved" by changing the
> appropriate SELinux boolean:
> 
> # setsebool -P allow_unconfined_nsplugin_transition=0
> 
> I don't know if this is really a behavior to recommend since it essentially
> opens the user to all sorts of mischief via nspluginwrapped code.  But
> certainly it's preferable to setting SELinux to disabled or permissive
> globally, which is one of the "solutions" I've seen in the forums.
> 
> Do we really want to recommend alpha software?  I suppose we could note its
> existence regardless.

It's easier to just prevent it from being wrapped by editing /etc/sysconfig/nspluginwrapper

(In reply to comment #8)
> Do we really want to recommend alpha software?  I suppose we could note its
> existence regardless.

I do think it deserves a footnote (or perhaps we should change the notes to read "32-bit version of the Flash plugin"), but recommending it is probably not the best idea.

I thought I would walk through the process before writing about it, so I installed a fresh i686 preview, typed about:plugins and found nspluginwrapper already installed.  I thought from the earlier comments that this needed to be manually installed and only on X86_64.

Went to YouTube, and clicked on the Install the latest flash link.  After selecting "YUM" for the "version to install", I got the message 'Method "InstallFiles" with signature "bas" on interface "org.freedesktop.PackageKit.Transaction" doesn't exist'

I was able to install the RPM for the Adobe repo manually, then when attempting to install Adobe Flash Player 10 with PackageKit I got the following message: 'Method "InstallSignature" with signature "sss" on interface "org.freedesktop.PackageKit.Transaction" doesn't exist'

A second attempt to install the player with PackageKit succeeded.

Once installed the player worked fine.  Note that the preview had not been updated when I did all this.  After a yum update the player continued to work correctly.

Duplicated Scott Robbins sequence on X86_64 except for Opera.  No sound.  I noticed my logon sound was a lot quieter than 32 bit, and this isn't a fresh install, so I'll try a fresh install after the meeting.

If I remember correctly, you need alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i386 installed on x86_64 if you're using the 32-bit plugin on Fedora x86_64.  If you're using the 64-bit plugin?  I'm not sure, but you could make sure alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.x86_64 is installed first, and if that doesn't work try the i386 package too in case the 64-bit version was compiled against it.

Sorry, please disregard my comment above -- I got confused about who had done what, when, and to which.  :-)

Paul had the secret!

I have placed some proposed prose at:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Jjmcd/Drafts/Flash

John, nice!

I think Comment #3 still applies: alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i386 (and thus alsa-lib.i386) is required on i386 too.

(The current nspluginwrapper with flash 10 sometimes gives troubles on i386 - uninstalling/disabling it sometimes helps. But I don't know if that should be mentioned here. Perhaps as a known issue. If it is considered known...)

The comment about X86_64 yum and firefox restart (and checking plugin) applies just as much to i386. Better make a general description convering both.

As I understand it nspluginwrapper.x86_64 is needed too (but perhaps usually already installed). Hopefully someone who _know_ will correct me?

And better say explicit that the X86 description is for using the 32 bit plugin. (To avoid confusion the 64 bit plugin should be mentioned (but not necessarily recommended) in a comment. See Comment #10)

Good comments.  I apparently had alsa-plugin-pulseaudio already installed.

It appears to me that you can't avoid nspluginwrapper.x86_64. That kind of bothered me.  At one point I uninstalled it and Firefox, then reinstalled Firefox.  Yum did not show the wrapper as a dependency, but after FF was installed it was there.  Makes me wonder whether is it in the FF package, although maybe I just didn't get it installed.

Paul brought McD's page to a few people this morning (Bill Nottingham, Warren Togami).  Warren's concern is that anything we write today may be incorrect in a week, and need regular updates along the way.  The situation is in such flux that we thought instead, let's link to a wiki page that Warren et al can update:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flash#Fedora_10

(That is, let's create a Flash page and a == Fedora 10 == section.)

Then populate it with what McD has written so far, add [[Category:Documentation]] to it, and let Warren take it from there.

(Warren Cc:'d so he can see the flow from here.)

Warren -- I changed up the page name to be more generically useful.

Sounds like a good plan -- there are several places where we need to do things like that.

The alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i386 has not been a requirement for me. In fact, I always remove it as it seems to cause problems with sound for those who don't run Gnome.  

(I also don't use pulse audio, which probably has something to do with it.)  :)

Nonetheless, the default install uses PulseAudio, therefore the "default" documentation should accommodate it.

+1 to comment 21. If that info was in the docs it would have saved me about 6+ hours of frustration.

I didn't see any content here:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flash#Fedora_10

So I moved in the information from the draft into this page, combined it with the small bit of relevant data that was at Multimedia/Flash (redirecting that page to the new one) and created the relevant content in the Release Notes.

http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/docs/release-notes?p=docs/release-notes.git;a=commit;h=8300e2909469284031f62e7c49a146ec69bdf947