Mozilla Firefox + Shockwave/Flash
 

Does anyone know how to get the Shockwave/Flash plugins working with Firefox? I've tried everything I can possible think of. The directions in the README are a bunch of bull and make no sense. I've tried putting it in the installation directories plugin directory (/usr/lib/firefox/plugins) and I've also tried ~.phoenix/plugins but neither worked. Permissions seem right too. Got any ideas?

I installed the plugin in /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox

hope it helps !

Did you put in directly in that directory, or did you put it in the plugins directory?

I used the installer from Macromedia here. It will prompt you for the directory where firefox is installed, which in my case was /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox. It installed the plugin, no problems. There are more detailed instructions on the macromedia download page if you need them.

I must have tried that 20 times, but it still doesnt work. If I look in /usr/lib/firefox/plugins, both of the components are present. I'm stumped.

This is what I did:

cp flashplayer.xpt /path/to/plugins
cp libflashplayer.so /path/to/plugins

Restart your browser. Type about:plugins in your address bar to see what you have installed.

Try installing libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 also (newer versions are OK). It is needed by the plugin.

if you would hit ctrl+alt+F1 after you go to a flash web page and the plugin fails to work. You would see you are missing a required lib but instead of installing libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 I just did this
as root or super user
ln -s /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5.0.5 /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3

to get back too Xwindow hit ctrl+alt+F7
close browser and resart problem solved

cheers colnago just checking this frustrating thing out myself and your answer worked!!

hey, i'm a super newbie. this site is wonderful! i was having the same problem and colnago's solution worked. just wanted to say thanks! :)

Where can I download that library at?

SUPER
 

Thank you colnago

It really helped me..

ThankyouThankyouThankyouThankyou

chrisk:

i downloaded that library here:
http://at.rpmfind.net/opsys/linux/RP....2-2.so.3.html

Excellent! The libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 from http://at.rpmfind.net/opsys/linux/R...6.2-2.so.3.html
did the trick for me.
Except...
Interactive Flash does not recognize my keyboard input.
Anybody else have same problem/solution?

Btw, Macromedia as far as I recall, hasn't produced any Shockwave drivers for Linux yet :( :(.

Perhaps someone will hack through the shockwave drivers on Windows for us and translate it to native code?