PowerPC Flash Player

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Prequisites

The adobe flash player is a free (as in free beer) binary-only x86 linux program. To get this working on PowerPC we need a piece of software that enables us to run x86 programs on PowerPC (yes, the opposite from what rosetta does).

Installation

• Install nspluginwrapper
• Install nspluginwrapper in the x86 subsystem
• Install the adobe flash player in the x86 subsystem
• Run

# cp -av /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386 /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/
# nspluginwrapper -i /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so

Removal

In case all those flash animations draw too much performance, you can always deactivate the plugin by running

# nspluginwrapper -r /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so

Usage

After a restart of firefox flash programs should work out of the box, though they might be slightly less speedy than on an x86 computer.