Hi All,

Just installed firefox 3.01 and tried toget flasf running. I installed via aptitude:

-flashplayer-mozilla

-flashplugin-nonfree

Which installed fine, but still no firefox flash. Here is my /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins directory which shows libflashplayer.so installed:

Help Appreciated,

pb


aquamarine:/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins# lsx
total 7984
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-09-02 22:47 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2008-09-02 23:02 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 2008-08-31 11:32 flash-mozilla.so -> /etc/alternatives/flash-mozilla.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8104280 2008-05-03 02:58 libflashplayer.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4008 2008-07-18 16:09 librhythmbox-itms-detection-plugin.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 44 2008-08-23 11:05 libtotem-basic-plugin.so -> ../../totem/default/libtotem-basic-plugin.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 45 2008-08-23 11:05 libtotem-basic-plugin.xpt -> ../../totem/default/libtotem-basic-plugin.xpt
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 46 2008-08-23 11:05 libtotem-complex-plugin.so -> ../../totem/default/libtotem-complex-plugin.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 47 2008-08-23 11:05 libtotem-complex-plugin.xpt -> ../../totem/default/libtotem-complex-plugin.xpt
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 42 2008-08-23 11:05 libtotem-gmp-plugin.so -> ../../totem/default/libtotem-gmp-plugin.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 43 2008-08-23 11:05 libtotem-gmp-plugin.xpt -> ../../totem/default/libtotem-gmp-plugin.xpt
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 44 2008-08-23 11:05 libtotem-mully-plugin.so -> ../../totem/default/libtotem-mully-plugin.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 45 2008-08-23 11:05 libtotem-mully-plugin.xpt -> ../../totem/default/libtotem-mully-plugin.xpt
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 50 2008-08-23 11:05 libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.so -> ../../totem/default/libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 51 2008-08-23 11:05 libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.xpt -> ../../totem/default/libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.xpt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 35780 2008-07-10 13:20 nphelix.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5086 2007-07-26 17:29 nphelix.xpt

BTW- flash runs fine in Epiphany

Have you tried using the official flash installer from Adobe? Its worked for me in the past.

Also, what distro are you running?

Have you tried the almighty reboot? (Although yes I know that SHOULDNT be necessary, but you'd be surprised sometimes...)

-- Drew

Ok, just fixed it:

I originally downloaded firefox .tar from mozilla site, not debian repositories (is it there despite Iceweasel?). I had previously installed flash via repos, so of course they weren't in the later installed mozilla directories. So I uninstalled and reinstalled flash and now it works fine.

I tried to manually install flash using the file downloaded from their site, but when it asked for the path to the install directory (used /usr/lib/mozilla and then again for each of its sub-directories) it would say the path was invalid. Something I'm missing here? Just glad to have it all running now.

Many Thanks,

pb