i have installed this player several times to mozilla and it supposedly was succesful but no plugins are detected..does anyone if this is a problem with fedora and flash player

how did you install it? did you use the official RPMs?

yes this is where i downloaded from.. and the commands used were

cd~
tar xvf install_flash_player_7_linux.tar.gz
cd install_flash_player_7_linux
./flashplayer-installer

this sends me to an interactive set which asks me to close browser opened at the end of which it states my plug in has been installed however when i visit a site i get an error stating that macromedia flashplayer is need for the site

do a find for plugins on your drive starting from /. You may have more than one location and its installing in the wrong one.

rock

How would i go about this give console commands please

in an xterm type:

su
password
find / -name 'plugins'

Look for any results that include "mozilla" or "firefox". For example, I found these among my results:

/usr/lib/netscape/plugins
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox-1.0.2/plugins

if I cd to these directories and ls their contents I get:

[root@localhost plugins]# cd /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox-1.0.2/plugins
[root@localhost plugins]# ls
libnullplugin.so*

[root@localhost plugins]# cd /usr/lib/netscape/plugins
[root@localhost plugins]# ls
flashplayer.xpt@ libflashplayer.so@ nppdf.so@ raclass.zip@ rpnp.so@

[root@localhost plugins]# cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
[root@localhost plugins]# ls
flashplayer.xpt* libflashplayer.so* libmozsvgdec.so* nppdf.so* rpnp.so*
gxineplugin.so* libjavaplugin_oji.so@ mplayerplug-in.so* raclass.zip

All my plugins are in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. /usr/lib/netscape/plugins has only symbolic links to the ones in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins, and /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox-1.0.2/plugins has only one.

If you have more than one plugin directory but only one has plugins, your firefox could be looking for them in the wrong one. If that is the case you can symlink all the plugins from the empty directory to the other
or re-install flash and any others to the other one.

That is, if that's your problem.

There are other links on this subject in this forum on how to do both of the above. I don't do it often enough. To tell you I would have to look it up myself. I may be wrong but I don't see why you can't just copy all the plugins to the other directory. Maybe someone else can tell us why that won't work.

rock

If you're running 32 bit fedora, something is wrong with your installation. If your running x86_64 fedora, that plugin doesn't work with your architecture. There's a plugin "wrapper" that allows you to use 32 bit plugins with 64 bit firefox called nspluginwrapper.

http://www.gibix.net/dokuwiki/enr...nspluginwrapper

Follow the instructions on the site if you do indeed have 64 bit fedora. Hope this helps. I'm running 64 bit linux and the 32 bit flash plugin works great.
James

Also look at this

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...t=flash+player

which is someone talking about a 64 bit system, though not Fedora.

the site says this topic does not exist.. could you tell me where to google this info or what search parameter to enter

yes, it says the topic doesn't exist, but if you look closer on the left side you can find the link.

diddo. for some reason, the link doesn't work when i copy the text, but if you look to the left, it's there. just click on nspluginwrapper, it'll take you to the right place. sorry if i confused anyone. I'll try it again.

http://www.gibix.net/dokuwiki/en:pro...spluginwrapper

edit: it works when i click on it.

yes you were right it is there. now i just need resolve the dependencies and hopefully this will work

and nope not running a 64bit system..

Flashplayer 8 Fedora Core 5
The Big Giant Mouse":
I did the find / -name 'plugins' in the terminal and showed my plugins, and also found firefox-1.05.plugin-ins (or something like that) So then I coped that firefox, then went to control center and clicked Internet & Network then clicked Web Browser, then clicked Plugins. I then pushed the new button and pasted the /usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.4/plugins. then pushed apply and it's just peachie for me.