CentOS 5.4 Shockwave

athomas · 04-03-2010, 01:45 AM

I just installed CentOS 5.4, as a desktop environment. Flash seemed to install okay, but Shockwave won't install. Adobe's site doesn't have a listing for Linux OS's. YouTube and etc. obviously won't work without this installed. Any pointers here?

Udi · 04-03-2010, 03:10 AM

For YouTube to work, you only need the flash player. If it doesn't work for you it might be installed incorrectly. To install it you simply download the flash player from adobe.com, make sure you get the .tar.gz version and not the .rpm version, and then copy the file libflashplayer.so to the plugins directory of your firefox (that's the whole installation - just copy 1 file!). The default location for the plugins directory is /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/.

athomas · 04-03-2010, 11:34 AM

That's what I thought too but YouTube.com says it's missing Shockwave. I'm pretty sure I installed it right though, it won't install as an FF addon so I just installed the RPM. This is the x64 OS, FYI.

Stevithen · 04-04-2010, 07:31 AM

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Originally Posted by athomas

That's what I thought too but YouTube.com says it's missing Shockwave. I'm pretty sure I installed it right though, it won't install as an FF addon so I just installed the RPM. This is the x64 OS, FYI.

If you goto about:plugins (in the url entry) in firefox what's it say under "shockwave flash"?