Problems installing Flash
 

I just installed FC5 and am pretty much new to linux overall. I have a test to take on a webpage using flash. I went to the flash website and downloaded it and installed it per the instructions on their site. It said installation complete, but under about:config in firefox it shows no flash. I need to take this 10 hour online course by sunday afternoon, preferably before, so i would greatly appreciate any help anyone has. Thanks in Advance.

one other thing, does anyone know a good overall media player with a good GUI?

If you followed the instructions it should work. But here are some directions
http://fedoranews.org/tchung/firefox-flash/

i clicked on the availiable plugins toolbar, and it said no plugins avaliable

I also found this and could not paste the files into their directories per the instrutions below. Do i need to be root to do that?

Hi friends...
Maybe many of you had problems installing Flash player under Phoneix / Mozilla. Even following the instructions on the Mozilla site. Well I was one of them and today I got the solution!
First follow the step just as Mozilla's site describe:

"Download Flash Player 6.0r79 then extract libflashplayer.so to your
plugins directory and flashplayer.xpt to your components directory"
Those directories are under your Mozilla directory, mostly under /usr/share.

Then download the RPM package "libstdc++2.10-2.96-0.83mdk.i586.rpm" that contains C++ libraries and install it. I used it with Redhat 9 and works great!.
Then do a log out. and enjoy your Flash player!

Good luck!
moisvon.

Copy these files to your FireFox Plugins directory... Your path may vary...


here is a listing of my ~/.mozilla/plugins directory:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 kencaz kencaz 856 Mar 14 2005 flashplayer.xpt*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 kencaz kencaz 2096844 Mar 14 2005 libflashplayer.so*

Remember it's a hidden folder...

Then try restarting Firefox and use about.plugins not about.config to see if it took.

KC

:newbie: how do i see the hidden folders? :newbie:

just do
whereis or slocate the two files above. They may be in /opt/mozilla/plugins or something like that. then as a regular user

cp /whereever/they/are/flashplayer.xpt* /home/<you>/.mozilla/plugins
or wherever your mozilla plugins dir is in your home dir.

If using gnome, which i think FC does. I think you need to right click in nautilus and check show hidden files

Listing your files with the -a option will show hidden files and directories.

such as:

ls -al

The hidden files will have periods before them. You can 'cd' to them the same as other files just add the period.

KC

what about the flashplayer.so file

Ok what about it? do the same thing for that file

o ok someone else said that you had to put it in a different area.

It still says flash not detected. I also checked on another site and it was not detected, and the popdown toolbar for availiable plugins came up. I clicked on it and it listed flash and an "unknown" I clicked manual install on the unknown player and it brought me to the flash download, even after i downloaded and installed flash per their gui installer.

did you restart firefox?

yea and it didnt work