Cannot install flash in Ubuntu Hardy 64 bit

[Eddie Dunn]

Binary package hint: flashplugin-nonfree

I cannot install flash on Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 (development branch).

This is the relevant part of the terminal output when I try to install it:

21:05:51 (3.84 MB/s) - `./install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz' saved [3036127/3036127]

Download done.
Flash Plugin installed.
/usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libpixman-1.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
nspluginwrapper: no appropriate viewer found for /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so
dpkg: error processing flashplugin-nonfree (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 flashplugin-nonfree
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[Roberto Sarrionandia (rbs-tito)]

Install the package ia32-libs and then reinstall.

This bug report is a duplicate, but thanks for reporting it. If you have any extra information please add it to bug 155015

[YorTheGreat (jord-swart)]

Sorry, me thinks this is not a duplicate. Installing the ia32-libs package didn't fix my installation (ia32-libs was already installed by the way).

I think the recent upgrade of the ia32-libs breaks the flash package. Seems that downgrading the ia32-libs fixes the problem (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4082074). Downgrading to the gutsy ia32-libs fixes the problem.

[Sebastian Rode (sebastian-ro-deactivatedaccount)]

I think so, too.

@ Roberto Sarrionandia what think you?

[Eddie Dunn (eddie-dunn)]

I saw the other thread before reporting this bug -- I did not find that the problem was the same, considering that a. it was for Gutsy, not Hardy and b. Synaptic would not download ia32-libs v2.1, hence you had to do it manually.

The problem here is that the next version of ia32-libs (2.2, which comes with the current version of Hardy) breaks flash compatibility.

Two different bugs, same solution: Download version 2.1 from
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/i/ia32-libs/ia32-libs_2.1ubuntu3_amd64.deb

Should the bug information be updated that it affects ia32-libs instead of flashplugin-nonfree?

[Łukasz Jernaś (deejay1)]

I have a similar problem here, but it bails out on missing libselinux in ia32-libs:
LC_ALL=C dpkg --configure -a
Setting up flashplugin-nonfree (9.0.115.0ubuntu3) ...
Installing from local file /var/cache/flashplugin-nonfree/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
Flash Plugin installed.
/usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libselinux.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
nspluginwrapper: no appropriate viewer found for /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so
dpkg: error processing flashplugin-nonfree (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 flashplugin-nonfree

[YorTheGreat (jord-swart)]

Any new status. I think there are four people here who can confirm that the new ia32-libs breaks flashplugin-nonfree. This should be fixed before Hardy can go live IMHO. Anything we can do to help out?

[Eddie Dunn (eddie-dunn)]

Since the problem appears to be in the latest version of ia32-libs I changed the affected package to this instead (it was previously flashplugin-nonfree).

[xtsbdu3reyrbrmroezob (xtsbdu3reyrbrmroezob)]

I am also experiencing this bug...

[Łukasz Jernaś (deejay1)]

Downgrading ia32-libs helped.
Looks like somehow ia32-libs was built with selinux support enabled, but libselinux isn't included in the package. IMHO it should be included as it exists in 64bit Hardy

[Ray Lee (ray-ubuntu)]

This bit me today too. flashplugin-nonfree depends upon libselinux1 from the ia32-libs package, but version 2.2 of that doesn't include libselinux. Downgrading ia32-libs to 2.1 fixed the install, as noted in the earlier comments.

This is a showstopper for hardy on amd64.

[JeremyChapman (zz9plural9zalpha)]

same here. /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libselinux.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[Dirk Schramm (no-comment)]

confirming that ia32-libs breaks flash plugin nonfree. downgrading fixes the problem.

[Jonathan Rogers (jonner)]

I can also confirm that downgrading ia32-libs to version 2.1ubuntu3 from gutsy allows flash to work. That package doesn't seem to include anything related to selinux either, so I'm guessing that version 2.2ubuntu3 is now built with selinux, but the package missed the library binaries, as Łukasz Jernaś suggested.

[Chris Samuel (chris-csamuel)]

Another confirmation that using the ia32-libs package linked above fixes the libselinux related problem with installing the nonfree Flash plugin.

[oh (oystein-homelien)]

I confirm the bug. Downgrading ia32-libs fixed flash. However, it will auto-upgrade to newest ia32-libs again on next apt upgrade for me, so I will need to do this every time or make an exception for ia32-libs. On a side note, how does one make such exceptions these days?

[Jesper Larsen (knorr)]

You can put the package on hold with:

root: echo "ia32-libs hold" | dpkg --set-selections

Use unhold to revert.

[hvc123 (maughanorama)]

i have the same issues but im using x64 hardy....
i have followed a couple of howtos from the forums yet flash is still busted even though the library is in the correct places...

[YorTheGreat (jord-swart)]

Did a dist-upgrade just today and flash plugin is working again!

[Jeremy Wilkins (wjeremy)]

It seems I am having a similar problem, but cannot resolve, so flash is not working. BTW. I manually removed the install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz to make sure it retrieved the latest one and it did just fine. I ran apt-get install -f after that again after the install failed the first time. Here is the output of apt-get:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  python-gtkhtml2 tango-icon-theme tango-icon-theme-common
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up flashplugin-nonfree (9.0.124.0ubuntu2) ...
Installing from local file /var/cache/flashplugin-nonfree/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
Flash Plugin installed.
nspluginwrapper: no appropriate viewer found for /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so
dpkg: error processing flashplugin-nonfree (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 flashplugin-nonfree
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Any ideas? There aren't any library errors like there are with the posts above.

[Guevara the Pirate (acuest52)]

I was having the same error as the above poster. Didn't have any library errors but could not install the Flash Plugin. Rolling back to the Gutsy ia32-libs fixed the error.

[stephenb (stephenb-snu)]

I also tried the roll back to ia32-libs 2.1, however, I still get the same problem others are encountering.

Flash Plugin installed.
nspluginwrapper: no appropriate viewer found for /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so
dpkg: error processing flashplugin-nonfree (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 flashplugin-nonfree
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

The only things that works for me is gnash.