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Lightspark- A good alternative to adobe Flash player| PPA Ubuntu, Fedora RPM

Written by M. Zinoune on February 22, 2012. Posted in Fedora, Linux Mint, Software, Ubuntu

The decision of adobe and google to allow Flash player only on google chrome browser via the “Pepper” API flash plugin, pose a real problem to users of Firefox, opera and other small browsers. Hopefully, there are a good alternative to adobe flash player plugin that works like a charm, one of those is

Lightspark, an LGPLv3 licensed Flash player and browser plugin written in C++/C that runs on Linux. Lightspark support Adobe’s newer Flash formats and AVM2 virtual machine.

Installation of Lightspark on Ubuntu/ LinuxMint/ Fedora

- Lightspark on Ubuntu and LinuxMint

Lightspark is available in Ubuntu and LinuxMint repository and can be installed using the command:

sudo apt-get install lightspark browser-plugin-lightspark

If yo want to install to use the latest version of lightspark, use the following PPA for Ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sparkers/daily
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install lightspark browser-plugin-lightspar

- Lightspark on Fedora:

lightspark is available in RPM Fusion for Fedora 13 and above, to install :

- Standalone player :

su -c ‘yum install lightspark –enablerepo=rpmfusion-free-updates-testing’

- Mozilla plugin :

 su -c 'yum install lightspark-mozilla-plugin --enablerepo=rpmfusion-free-updates-testing'

And is done.

Via lffl & Lightspark

For questions please refer to our Q/A forum at : http://ask.unixmen.com

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John Gallacher

how do you activate it?
Fred

in about:config with Opera
- dakira
  
  That would be opera:plugins
http://www.facebook.com/danetche Daniel Etche

Friends, the links run but not are archives, is empty.
NikosMidi

You miss a K in the end when you say:
“sudo apt-get install lightspark browser-plugin-lightspar”

Tried to type it like that and didnt worked, so i figured it was the missing k, and then everything ok.

Thanx by the way!
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1183131967 Alius Panfilovas

Totally sucks…
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000738971976 Rodolfo Robles Rivera
  
  Then don’t use it, but this will be necessary in a near future.
  - AliusPanfilovas
    
    Maybe, but i think HTML5 is future not flash.
tHeDUde

i cant type my password when terminal asks me to
tHeDUde

is the mozilla plugin for ubuntu too?
Kayman

total waste of time. It doesn’t work on any video I tested except for the a single Youtube clip I found in some forum which is supposed to be a demo. If you only need flash for Youtube there are already much much better ways without flash like the flashvideoreplacer addon for Firefox or the Linternia Magica script http://linterna-magica.nongnu.org/ , these also work on a few more sites and LM works on many and you can use it on other web browsers than Firefox.

Flash is hopefully on their way out, why are these people still waste their time reverse engineering something that is dying and that doesn’t even work?
Kayman

Dude, I am wondering have you even bother testing it before you publish this article? It is not an alternative cos it almost never works, let alone a ‘good alternative’. It is embarrassing.
Rgundberg

This dog don’t hunt
obetus

what a mess.. :(
ipprograms

root@bt:~# sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sparkers/daily
Executing: gpg –ignore-time-conflict –no-options –no-default-keyring –secret-keyring /etc/apt/secring.gpg –trustdb-name /etc/apt/trustdb.gpg –keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg –primary-keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com –recv 3FFBD36EC8C791DB1A08D83400DC1FD50AA42215
gpg: requesting key 0AA42215 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: key 0AA42215: public key “Launchpad PPA for Sparkers” imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: imported: 1 (RSA: 1)
root@bt:~# sudo apt-get update
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid Release.gpg
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net/sparkers/daily/ubuntu/ lucid/main Translation-en_US
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid Release.gpg
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net/sssup/sssup-ppa/ubuntu/ lucid/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid Release
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid Release
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid/main Packages
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid/main Packages
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid/main Packages
Err http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid/main Packages
404 Not Found
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/sparkers/daily/ubuntu/dists/lucid/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz 404 Not Found

E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
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