trying to install adobe flash player

water_sun_sea · Post by **water_sun_sea** » Mon Mar 15, 2010 11:54 am

Hi
Sorry if this has been covered before i did do a search and nothing come up

I have installed wine and firefox i need the adobe flashplayer to work with yoville

I went to the adobe flash player site and downloaded the windows version , but it come up with an error

Does any1 know how to get this to work please

Sorry its my first time using wine

Thanks for any help

gamingman · Post by **gamingman** » Mon Mar 15, 2010 3:29 pm

Tell us your operating system, graphics card, processor, and tell us what this error was.

Post by **dimesio** » Mon Mar 15, 2010 3:47 pm

water_sun_sea wrote: I went to the adobe flash player site and downloaded the windows version , but it come up with an error

What version of Wine? If it's not the latest development release (currently 1.1.40), upgrade. If that doesn't fix it, run it from a terminal and post whatever messages appear. http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#run_from_terminal

water_sun_sea · Post by **water_sun_sea** » Tue Mar 16, 2010 6:46 am

Sorry my sytem has ubuntu 9.10 (No windows )

My Graphics card is Radeon x1300/x1550 series 525 mb

My processor is 160gh

I have the latest version of wine 1.01

WINE and firefox work very well

its just it will not let me download flashplayer

When i go to the adobe download site it throws up this error

getplus+(r)error
operating system error
(16263.201.35542772312.80040152.ffffffff.86004002)

water_sun_sea · Post by **water_sun_sea** » Tue Mar 16, 2010 7:06 am

I am so sorry guys for wasting your time

I have managed to download and install it,what a noob i was tring to install it for internet explorer

DaVince · Post by **DaVince** » Tue Mar 16, 2010 10:14 am

Wine 1.0.1 is also not at all the latest version. Get the latest, 1.1.40. It works a lot better than the latest "stable".

water_sun_sea · Post by **water_sun_sea** » Wed Mar 17, 2010 8:09 am

DaVince wrote:Wine 1.0.1 is also not at all the latest version. Get the latest, 1.1.40. It works a lot better than the latest "stable".

Yes WINE 1.01 is the stable version

And 1.1.40 is in development

I thought development meant not yet released

Sorry if i am wrong

doh123 · Post by **doh123** » Wed Mar 17, 2010 10:19 am

water_sun_sea wrote:
DaVince wrote:Wine 1.0.1 is also not at all the latest version. Get the latest, 1.1.40. It works a lot better than the latest "stable".
Yes WINE 1.01 is the stable version

And 1.1.40 is in development

I thought development meant not yet released

Sorry if i am wrong

stable means its set in stone.. unchanging.. the code will not change...

Development has all the latest improvements and works MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH better than the "stable" release. Devel version is available, and what you should use... there are set devel versions released all the time, being that the latest is 1.1.40.

the "stable" version had more of a meaning awhile ago, but its very old now, and not very useful. I think they should re-look how they name and release stuff.

jil · Post by **jil** » Wed Mar 17, 2010 1:43 pm

water_sun_sea wrote: And 1.1.40 is in development

I thought development meant not yet released

Wine issues regular "releases" roughly every 2 weeks, these are the development versions. Unlike the stable versions, there isn't a lot of testing done before they're released. That doesn't mean no testing, it just means, not as much testing. So new features get added to the development version, and not to the stable version. For many applications, the development version works better. Yet for some, it works worse. This is known as a regression, and there have been plenty.

So which is best for you? Often, the development version. But sometimes not. There's no way to know except to try.

DaVince · Post by **DaVince** » Wed Mar 17, 2010 4:13 pm

jil wrote:So which is best for you? Often, the development version. But sometimes not. There's no way to know except to try.

Though in most cases, the latest development version works best, especially when considering that the last "stable" version is at least a year old and a LOT of work has been done on Wine since then.

water_sun_sea · Post by **water_sun_sea** » Wed Mar 17, 2010 4:42 pm

Thank you all so what is the best way to up date ?

DaVince · Post by **DaVince** » Wed Mar 17, 2010 5:02 pm

See http://www.winehq.org/download/deb for Ubuntu instructions.

water_sun_sea · Post by **water_sun_sea** » Wed Mar 17, 2010 6:24 pm

DaVince wrote:See http://www.winehq.org/download/deb for Ubuntu instructions.

Thank you i have updated WINE to 1.1.40

and all seems well

water_sun_sea · Post by **water_sun_sea** » Thu Mar 18, 2010 11:55 am

water_sun_sea wrote:
DaVince wrote:See http://www.winehq.org/download/deb for Ubuntu instructions.
Thank you i have updated WINE to 1.1.40

and all seems well

Well i thought all seems well but....

i am experiencing freezes and crash in firefox

Does any1 know how to un-install WINE 1.140

and install WINE 1.01 in ubuntu

Thanks for reading

water_sun_sea · Post by **water_sun_sea** » Thu Mar 18, 2010 6:49 pm

I was to quick to blame WINE

Tonight i went on my laptop and used firefox and flash , this laptop does not have wine installed and i was still getting the freezing on there to so i guess
its adobe flashplayer playnig up .

DaVince · Post by **DaVince** » Fri Mar 19, 2010 7:45 am

Wait, no Wine installed? You mean no 1.1.40, right? Because you don't need Wine to have Flash on your Linux system...

Flash has a native Linux version it will always use. Installing the Windows version of Flash doesn't do anything to your Linux system, Linux apps just use the Linux version anyway. Installing Flash in Wine is intended to get Flash in apps running in Wine working...

And yes, the Linux version of Flash is a bit crashy.

Your best bet is to combine its usage with a browser like Chrome, which will only crash the one tab and not the entire browser if this happens.

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Sun Mar 21, 2010 4:39 pm

water_sun_sea wrote:I have installed wine and firefox i need the adobe flashplayer to work with yoville

Any particular reason you are not using native Linux versions instead?

water_sun_sea · Post by **water_sun_sea** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 6:00 am

DaVince wrote:Wait, no Wine installed? You mean no 1.1.40, right? Because you don't need Wine to have Flash on your Linux system...

Flash has a native Linux version it will always use. Installing the Windows version of Flash doesn't do anything to your Linux system, Linux apps just use the Linux version anyway. Installing Flash in Wine is intended to get Flash in apps running in Wine working...

And yes, the Linux version of Flash is a bit crashy. Your best bet is to combine its usage with a browser like Chrome, which will only crash the one tab and not the entire browser if this happens.

Sorry for the confusion

I have a laptop and a pc both running ubuntu 9.10
what i meant was i have wine running on my pc and not my laptop
and thats how i know it was flashplayer playing up
for some reason flash player just works on my laptop , it must be because i dual boot with windows .
on my pc copy the flashplayer into the firefox plug-ins folder will not work like it does on my laptop .

so that is when i heard that i could use wine and use the windows firefox and flashplayer to play yoville .

water_sun_sea · Post by **water_sun_sea** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 6:05 am

vitamin wrote:
water_sun_sea wrote:I have installed wine and firefox i need the adobe flashplayer to work with yoville
Any particular reason you are not using native Linux versions instead?

Yes because when i copy and paste flahplayer into the firefox plugin folder it does not work on my pc ,but works on my laptop .

Thanks for all you help all

DaVince · Post by **DaVince** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 12:28 pm

for some reason flash player just works on my laptop , it must be because i dual boot with windows .

This won't make any sort of difference. Neither Flash nor your browser in Linux have anything to do with Windows. Perhaps there's a hardware difference, or something with your audio system (ALSA, OSS, Pulse...) (this is a common problem with Flash where it'll crash a lot easier with some audio systems/drivers/hardware).

roderakker · Post by **roderakker** » Fri Mar 26, 2010 7:18 am

why don't you use firefox for linux with flash for linux? running it in wine, unless you need it for some other application, doesn't make sense to me...

Jim Hall · Post by **Jim Hall** » Sat Mar 27, 2010 10:11 am

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 7:18 AM, roderakker <[email protected]>wrote:

why don't you use firefox for linux with flash for linux? running it in
wine, unless you need it for some other application, doesn't make sense to
me...

I just looked this program up. It looks like it's played on facebook or
myspace. That may add another layer to running in Wine. So, if you can't
make it work in Linux, forget Wine for this app. Just my opinion.

Jim
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