Adobe Flash Player installation worked fine; however, the problem remains.
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Where '/home/your_username' is your home directory. Some files will not be found, ignore it. Then reinstall flash from Adobe site. I am using this version and it work, however this is test version for 64 bit Linux systems. Uncompress downloaded file and copy as root to directory '/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/'. Restart Firefox and check on Plugins menu if you have only one version of flash v10.1.
Distribution: open SUSE 11.0, Fedora 7 and Mandriva 2007
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Thanks eSelix
In the 'share' folder, there is no ' /mozilla/plugins '.
I looked at the folders in 'share' folder.
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[root@localhost ~]# rm /usr/share/mozilla/plugins/*flash*.so
rm: cannot remove `/usr/share/mozilla/plugins/*flash*.so': No such file or directory
[root@localhost ~]#
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[root@localhost lib]# cd mozilla
[root@localhost mozilla]# ls
plugins/
[root@localhost mozilla]# cd plugins
[root@localhost plugins]# ls
libflashplayer.so@ libskypebuttons.so*
[root@localhost plugins]# rm *flash*.so
rm: remove symbolic link `libflashplayer.so'? y
[root@localhost plugins]#
The above worked.
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[root@localhost ~]# rm /home/nissanka/.mozilla/plugins/*flash*.so
rm: cannot remove `/home/nissanka/.mozilla/plugins/*flash*.so': No such file or directory
[root@localhost ~]#
There is no '.mozilla' folder in /home/nissanka.
My user name is 'nissanka'.
You found one of flash versions. But you had second somewhere. After removing files and restarting firefox check menu plugins if there are any flashplayer, it shouldn't. I don't known where else these flash libraries can be. If you not found it, create another account and from this new account run Fierefox and check plugins menu, to check if these files are in user directory or system. After then, when you will not have any versions of flash, you can install the newest version.
Distribution: open SUSE 11.0, Fedora 7 and Mandriva 2007
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Thanks eSelix for taking time to reply me again.
As a root user, the command 'find' should find the files. Why didn't it find them?
There is no 'mozillla-firefox' in 'lib' folder.
I restarted the computer several times.
I looked at 'Add-ons' .
Shock Wave Flash 9.0 r999 and 10.1 r85 are still there.
You suggested creating another account. What is it? I don't know about these things.
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None of the following site works now. So I am in trouble.
[nissanka@localhost ~]$ su root
Password:
[root@localhost nissanka]# rm /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/*flash*.so
rm: cannot remove `/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/*flash*.so': No such file or directory
[root@localhost nissanka]#
all i do is synapmaptic package manager
uninstal what the distro put in not a complete uninstall
then go get it from adobe
fire fox dont like it for a bit but opera finds it right off
And then check again "nspluginwrapper -l" and plugins menu. If you will get nothing with word "flash" in name, then extract http://download.macromedia.com/pub/l..._092710.tar.gz and copy to "/usr/lib64/firefox-addons/plugins"
What version of Firefox you have got? I have 3.6.11 and that flash plugin v10.2 d161. It is beta, but is real 64bit. If it will also not work, give me response, I have one more idea.
Distribution: open SUSE 11.0, Fedora 7 and Mandriva 2007
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The following worked fine:
[nissanka@localhost ~]$ su root
Password:
[root@localhost nissanka]# nspluginwrapper -r /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
[root@localhost nissanka]#
The following didn't work:
[root@localhost nissanka]# rm /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
rm: cannot remove `/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so': No such file or directory
[root@localhost nissanka]#
The following worked fine too:
[root@localhost nissanka]# rm /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
rm: remove regular file `/usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so'? y
[root@localhost nissanka]#
The version number of the Firefox is 3.6.8.
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In lib64, I found the firefox.
In the folder 'searchplugins', I found the following:
[nissanka@localhost firefox-3.6.8]$ cd searchplugins
[nissanka@localhost searchplugins]$ ls
amazondotcom.xml
askcom.xml
eBay.xml
google.xml
wikipedia.xml
answers.xml
creativecommons.xml
exalead.xml
jamendo.xml
yahoo.xml
[nissanka@localhost searchplugins]$
What shall I do now?
Check menu Tools/Plugins in Firefox. If you have not flash, then install it by your package system, for example in Ubuntu I have "flashplugin-installer" which use 32bit version of flash player provided by Adobe (it work with "nspluginwrapper"), or use link from my previous post to 64bit version.
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