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Concert Vault and Linux (Jan 2009)
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 01-16-2009, 6:08 AM |
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MrPaulCaruso
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Concert Vault and Linux (Jan 2009)
We've had a number of emails and forum posts on folks having difficult playing Concert Vault on Linux PCs. We're starting this thread to document successes and failures so that those of you who use Linux have a single place to go in our site for answers.
In short: you should be able to play our concerts on Linux PCs. The key is your installation of the Adobe Flash player. If it's done right you shouldn't have any problems.
The Flash player on Linux is much better now than it was a year ago, but it's still a little involved to make sure you have all the right dependencies, browser versions (32bit/64 bit) etc, and each distro can be a bit different, especially if they aren't fairly recent versions. For example, someone running RedHat 7 or old builds of Fedora is most certainly going to have problems. Make sure you have a properly installed and current distro.
We have successfully played concerts in the following environments:
Ubuntu 8.0.1 with Gnome 2.24.1 GUI works perfectly. Here is the install procedure in Ubuntu 8.0.1 with versions we tested:
- Installed Firefox 3.0.5
- Went to Adobe and selected get Flash Player and selected deb for Ubuntu 8.0.4
- Told it to open with the GDEbi Package Installer (Default choice in Firefox on Ubuntu 8.0.4+)
- Installed it, restarted Firefox, and everything was fine.
Ubuntu 7.10 also tested fine as follows:
- Install latest version of 32bit version Firefox 3.0.5 from tar.gz download from mozilla.org, open it make sure it works, then quite
- Download tar.gz of latest Flash Player 10.0.15.3 release from Adobe.com
- Extract contents of tar.gz from command line or Ark tool in ubuntu
- Execute the install.sh script from the command line that is contained in the Flash .tar.gz file
- Relaunch Firefox - visit www.adobe.com or http://www.impossibilities.com/flashinfo/ to confirm Flash is working properly.
Other things to check:
Make sure that whatever the Linux distro you are using has a sound card and the appropriate drivers installed and configured and working, otherwise there will be no support for sound in the Flash player, and the concert player will just hang.
If you are still having problems, check:
- Whether you're running 64 bit versus 32 bif, and if the browser you have installed is 32bit or 64bit. If you running 64 bit check this tech note from Adobe: http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=6b3af6c9. There is a beta of Flash 10 that does support 64bit OS/browsers on Linux, and Solaris x86/sparc platforms here: http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html
- There are lots of other little things to test. The biggest one is having
updated libraries and dependencies. Here is a list of common
dependencies and other items, from the engineer Mike Melanson who works
on the Linux builds of the Flash player http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2008/08/library_expansion.html. He has a lot of great stuff about the linux builds, and issues.
If you are STILL having problems, let us know:
- The distro and version of your Linux install (ubuntu, gentoo, redhat,
centos, etc)
- Your processor
type (uname -a output from a shell would be helpful too to get kernel,
etc)
- The type of GUI you are running (KDE/GNOME/etc)
- How you installed it (eg from a tar.gz, an RPM, YUM or .deb file for Ubuntu)
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