firefox plugins

rehan999 · 05-18-2009, 04:00 AM

Good Morning

I have installed firefox3.0.6 on my linux machine which is having redhat enterprise version 4.7.

when i open some websites it is asking me

Additional plugins are required to display all the media on this page.when i click on Install Missing plugins it is directing me to http://get.adobe.com/flashplayerwhen i go to installation instructions i see for 32bit but my machine is of 64bit archeticture.

Kindly advise on how to install the plugins for the 64bit machine.

regards
rehan

hw-tph · 05-18-2009, 04:15 AM

You can grab the 64bit Flash plugin from Adobe labs. Simply unpack the file and copy the libflashplayer.so file to ~/.mozilla/plugins/ and restart Firefox. You can verify the installation by typing

Code:

about:plugins

in the Firefox location field and pressing enter.

jdkaye · 05-18-2009, 04:22 AM

You can get the 64 bit version of flash here:
http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html
It's at the very bottom of the page:

Quote:

English

* Download 64-bit Plugin for Linux (TAR.GZ, 3.56 MB)

cheers,
jdk

colucix · 05-18-2009, 04:34 AM

The 64-bit of the Flash Player plugin is at alpha stage. This means you can download and install it for testing purposes, but it can still have some bugs. Get it from the bottom of this page and check useful hints on this page. Take in mind that you can always install the 32 bit version if something goes wrong.

H_TeXMeX_H · 05-18-2009, 06:32 AM

The 64-bit flash plugin works just as well as the 32-bit one. It still have the same issues tho, nothing better nothing worse.

Another option is to use gnash.

rehan999 · 05-30-2009, 01:44 AM

Good morning ALL

Thanks you very much for replying to my post.

I have tried all the above but nothing worked, still the same problem.

Please advise.

Regards
Rehan

jdkaye · 05-30-2009, 02:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rehan999

Good morning ALL

Thanks you very much for replying to my post.

I have tried all the above but nothing worked, still the same problem.

Please advise.

Regards
Rehan

It's hard to advise when you haven't told us exactly what you did and what the result was. Maybe a few details of what you did would help us help you.
cheers,
jdk

rehan999 · 05-30-2009, 03:10 AM

Good Morning

when i did the below steps

You can grab the 64bit Flash plugin from Adobe labs. Simply unpack the file and copy the libflashplayer.so file to ~/.mozilla/plugins/ and restart Firefox. You can verify the installation by typing
Code:
aboutluginsin the Firefox location field and pressing enter

I still get the same error.Please find the attachment.

Regards
Rehan

jdkaye · 05-30-2009, 04:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rehan999

Good Morning

when i did the below steps

You can grab the 64bit Flash plugin from Adobe labs. Simply unpack the file and copy the libflashplayer.so file to ~/.mozilla/plugins/ and restart Firefox. You can verify the installation by typing
Code:
aboutluginsin the Firefox location field and pressing enter

I still get the same error.Please find the attachment.

Regards
Rehan

So I see. But did you type

Code:

about:plugins

into the url bar of your browser to verify that the plugin is intalled correctly? What does the entry: Shockwave Flash say? Have you removed all other plugins mentioned in earlier posts?
cheers,
jdk

rehan999 · 05-30-2009, 04:31 AM

Yes i did but it didnt gave me anything.Please find the attachment.

csh hostname 18 % ll
total 10552
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9543400 May 30 09:26 libflashplayer.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 72 Apr 21 09:55 libjavaplugin_oji.so -> /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_04/jre/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 40608 Jun 27 2007 nphelix.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5086 Jun 27 2007 nphelix.xpt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1174408 May 30 09:52 npjp2_linux_jasper_pthread.so
csh hostname 19 % pwd
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

jdkaye · 05-30-2009, 11:10 AM

Right. So you haven't installed any plugins at all. do you have a file called libflashplayer.so? If you do what folder is it in?
cheers,
jdk

rehan999 · 05-31-2009, 12:53 AM

Greetings

Yes i have the file libflashplayer.so in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins.

Thank you very much for your reply.

Regards
Rehan

jdkaye · 05-31-2009, 02:04 AM

In your home directory, you should have a folder called .mozilla (the full-stop at the beginning is important). Just to test things out, try placing a copy of libflashplayer.so in ~/.mozilla/plugins and stop and restart firefox. Then see if you have the plugin installed by the "about

lugins" method described previously. If that works then we can talk about a permanent location for the flash plugin (and any others you want to add).
cheers,
jdk

rehan999 · 05-31-2009, 03:43 AM

I followed the steps provided by you.

when i did
[root@hostname ~]# cd .mozilla/
I did'nt had the directory plugins , i created it manually.

[root@hostanme .mozilla]# ls -a
. .. extensions firefox plugins

I copied libflashplayer.so to plugins directory and restarted the firefox and tried to run about.plugins it gave me the below mentioned error on the shell.

LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /root/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so [/lib64/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by /root/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so)]

Please advise.

regards.

jdkaye · 05-31-2009, 08:21 AM

From all that you say, it sounds like your firefox is not installed correctly. It sounds like you try to run Firefox as root and so you have a /root/.mozilla folder. This will cause you soooo much trouble. I would suggest removing firefox and reinstalling it correctly and then running it as a normal user and not as root. In that way you should be able to install your plugins.
cheers,
jdk