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Installer for wine-flash-installer did not run correctly or was aborted / execution of wine-flash-installer failed.

Asked by Wyatt Ward

I tried to compile wine with your patches and everything built successfully, but when I try to install the flash plugin, I get this error (using firefox 25):
I am using linux mint 14, but the ubuntu package did not work for me (14 is the equivalent of ubuntu quantal).

[PIPELIGHT:LIN:unknown] attached to process.
[PIPELIGHT:LIN:unknown] checking environment variable PIPELIGHT_FLASH_CONFIG.
[PIPELIGHT:LIN:unknown] searching for config file pipelight-flash.
[PIPELIGHT:LIN:unknown] trying to load config file from '/home/wyatt/.config/pipelight-flash'.
[PIPELIGHT:LIN:unknown] trying to load config file from '/etc/pipelight-flash'.
[PIPELIGHT:LIN:unknown] trying to load config file from '/home/wyatt/development/pipelight/wine/mmueller2012-pipelight-4b45f39450b3/share/pipelight/pipelight-flash'.
[PIPELIGHT:LIN:flash] using wine prefix directory /home/wyatt/.wine-pipelight/.
[PIPELIGHT:LIN:flash] checking plugin installation - this might take some time.
[install-dependency] Downloading and running wine-flash-installer.
[install-dependency] ERROR: Installer for wine-flash-installer did not run correctly or was aborted.
[install-dependency] ERROR: Execution of wine-flash-installer failed.
[PIPELIGHT:LIN:flash] basicplugin.c:322:checkPluginInstallation(): Plugin installer did not run correctly (exitcode = 1).
[PIPELIGHT:LIN:flash] basicplugin.c:153:attach(): Plugin not correctly installed - aborting.

It looks to me like it might be a problem with the executable bit, but I don't know where I need to go to set it (I know chmod 777, but I don't know where it downloads the installer to).

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Wyatt Ward (legend5459) said : 		#1

Oops, this probably should have been listed as a bug. sorry about that.

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Wyatt Ward (legend5459) said : 		#2

Oops, this probably should have been listed as a bug. sorry about that.

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Wyatt Ward (legend5459) said : 		#3

had to re-open because I hit 'answered' instead of 'just add a comment'. sorry again :\

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Wyatt Ward (legend5459) said : 		#4

never mind! I asked this too soon! I just found your diagnostics page and was able to fix my problem; apparently I had my winePath set wrong in the configuration profile (went to /usr/local/bin instead of /usr/local), and I had to reload my plugin cache (rm ~/.mozilla/firefox/{profile}/pluginreg.dat). Sorry to bother you!

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Sebastian Lackner (slackner) said : 		#5

Hi,

why didn't the Ubuntu packages work? Normally there shouldn't be any difference between Mint and Ubuntu (if you select the corresponding equivalent version).

Concerning the wine path: We recommend to set it to the direct path to the wine executable, so for example /usr/local/bin/wine (if you've installed wine there). Moreover you should be able to compile everything without manually changing configuration files (it sounds like you did that?)! The ./configure script is able to set (almost) everything for you.

I'm glad that you've solved the original problem, if you've additional questions or something doesn't work, just ask us! Please note when you're using a self-compiled Pipelight version for Flash, you'll not automatically receive updates for new flash version (security updates for example). This could be a bit problematic, except you check and rebuilt the packages periodically, or update flash manually. For pipelight we'll push out new releases for every plugin update.

Sebastian

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Wyatt Ward (legend5459) said : 		#6

Oh, i just prefer compiling things myself, that's all. Might break my system someday, but that's the way I like to do it, if it's not really complex (read: takes ages) like the linux kernel (I use a pentium 4 @3GHz).

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Wyatt Ward (legend5459) said : 		#7

Also, I set up a shellscript that automatically gets the latest releases for most projects and compiles them, which I run weekly. So I won't be missing updates.