Introduction
Adobe Shockwave (or just Shockwave) is a complement for Web browsers that allows the reproduction of interactive content such as games, presentations, training applications, etc., formerly called Macromedia Shockwave.
When doing Internet searches I could not find convincing results that allowed me to have everything in a single browser since the proposal was to install Wine and then the version of Firefox for Windows (it sounds disgusting I know, but it is), so I came across something that I have not seen written anywhere.
How to install it?
Simple, to perform the installation in Ubuntu and derivatives, proceed from a terminal to install a package called «Pipelight«. To do this from a terminal we execute the following commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa: pipelight / stable sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install --install-recommends pipelight-multi sudo pipelight-plugin --update
Enable Plugin
To enable Shockwave in web browsers, we proceed with the following commands in a terminal:
sudo pipelight-plugin --unlock shockwave sudo pipelight-plugin --enable shockwave sudo pipelight-plugin --create-mozilla-plugins
To check that everything is well done ... we open Firefox for example and we go to the "Plugins" section within Add-ons and we see if it is Enabled:
And if we want to test if it works ... we go to the official website where we can perform the test. Accessing through the following button:
And to use Shockwave we click on:
It's good to know that, but let's not be discriminatory with those we have other browsers, like Chrome. What would it be like in this case? : /
Jorge, in case PIPELIGHT works with Chrome and Chromium, the only difference is for those who use Firefox, always include the line "–create-mozilla-plugins" so that they are installed in said browser.
I did not have the possibility to test it in Chrome, if you have problems let me know and we follow up on that and I find out how to make it work (which is surely a command similar to Firefox) 🙂
Thanks and good luck!
I just found out, that the plugin has NPAPI support, which was discontinued in Chrome / Chromium since release 34. It won't work, then.
Thank you as well.
In Chrome it uses another integrated plugin, it is not necessary to load anything. Chromium has run out of Flash support, and Firefox will drop it as well.
I haven't seen anything that uses shockwave for years #elaporte
I don't understand why people and distros still insist on putting closed binary packages that upload bugs with privilege escalation twice a week in their repositories.
All this being able to install it in the user's home without giving root permissions to the only cancer that we still (unfortunately) need.
They go to the flashplayer download page:
https://get.adobe.com/es/flashplayer/
They download the tar.gz for another Linux, unzip it, create the plugins folder inside their hidden mozilla folder on their home
$ mkdir -p .mozilla / plugins
and copy the file libflashplayer.so into the plugins folder.
That's it… .without giving root permissions to that mange.
Well, I think I was wrong, I was not a flashplayer ... that happens when one is in a hurry and does not read carefully.
But maybe my form works for this shockwave, I would have to do the test.
Sorry for the noise and my confusion between plugins.
That is the most accurate thing I have heard, the distros only have to have the basics and the fundamentals that work with the system. The best way for user applications is to be at home. That there are installers like Steam or many more apps that install everything in the home.
Nah, great, finally there is a way to install it. Too bad I wear a fedora, is there a way to do it there?
I don't like this blog ... it won't let me put my comment because it is theoretically "spam" that anger generated this: /
Well, regarding installing it in Fedora ... guide yourself with this link 😉
http://pipelight.net/cms/install/installation-fedora.html
HOW GOOD TO KNOW !!! 🙂
… But someone still uses shockwave ????
In debian it doesn't update that repository. It cannot be accessed. Is there some other way to do it.
I am a stalwart of this page (and when it was "let's use linux").
I really appreciate this type of article. I'm not a purist, but I try.
It is true that it is a story to be up to date with closed packages, but, I find it interesting that it can open closed doors (like flash and its outdated Linux 11.2) and have 17.0.
I never comment, but today I think I have been motivated to comment.
Thank you for your unconditional contribution to the web.
Hello
I installed it and nothing happened, the director plugin is still not running.
I have the shockwave installed, libfreshwrapper-pepperflash.so
Could it be that I have to remove it?
It did not work for me as I do to undo everything that I installed following the steps you gave me thanks
Hello
I have tested on an acer laptop with xubuntu 14.04 on this page
https://www.pixton.com/es/create/comic/pkumvwa7
and in the test of the blog, but it has not worked for me.
firefox version
ii firefox 49.0.2 + build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 amd64 Safe and easy web browser from Mozilla
🙁 Too bad I was interested in this topic, we run an educational center and many students use this website ...
What to look at?