how do you get firefox to see adobe flash in suse 13.2

uncihawk · 05-22-2015, 12:29 PM

I cannot get firefox to see adobe flash or any flash. Can this be corrected.

business_kid · 05-22-2015, 01:15 PM

Gotchas are
1. that you need a 32 bit browser and plugin, or 64 bit browser & plugiun, not any mix of 32/64 bit combinations.
2. That you need the latest version or sites complain and the browser disables it :-//.

That said I just copy the plugin (libflashplayer.so) to global plugins directoey (/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/ on Slackware) and it works there after you restart firefox.

beachboy2 · 05-22-2015, 01:19 PM

uncihawk,

Welcome to LQ.

Give this a try:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb...imations-games

John VV · 05-22-2015, 03:07 PM

go to the adobe site
grab the "rpm for other linux"
https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
click download

a pop up will popup asking to INSTALL using "apper"
or
save

select INSTALL

now if you installed the firefox from the mozilla site you will need to link the plugin to the install folder you created for the manual install of firefox

if suse default
the plugin "should" be auto found

then restart firefox and type into the address bar

Code:

about:plugins

and look , it should be there

arizonagroovejet · 05-23-2015, 03:41 PM

All the answers given so far seem overly complex given that Flash can be installed from the openSUSE 13.2 repos.

Code:

$ zypper info flash-player
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...


Information for package flash-player:
-------------------------------------
Repository: openSUSE-13.2-Update-Non-Oss
Name: flash-player
Version: 11.2.202.460-2.51.1
Arch: x86_64
Vendor: openSUSE
Installed: Yes
Status: out-of-date (version 11.2.202.457-2.48.1 installed)
Installed Size: 20.9 MiB
Summary: Adobe Flash Plugin and Standalone Player
Description: 
  This package contains Adobe's Flash Plugin for the supported Web
  browsers in addition to a standalone flash player application.
$

Just install the flash-player package.

What have you done so far?

uncihawk · 06-05-2015, 02:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by John VV

go to the adobe site
grab the "rpm for other linux"
https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
click download

a pop up will popup asking to INSTALL using "apper"
or
save

select INSTALL

now if you installed the firefox from the mozilla site you will need to link the plugin to the install folder you created for the manual install of firefox

if suse default
the plugin "should" be auto found

then restart firefox and type into the address bar

Code:

about:plugins

and look , it should be there

What I found was

File: libflashplayer-dont-use.so
Path: /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer-dont-use.so
Version: 11.2.202.460
State: Enabled
Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202

any idea how to correct this. This is what it is telling it to use libfreshwrapper-pepperflash.so -> /usr/lib/freshplayerpluginlibfreshwrapper-pepperflash.so

uncihawk · 06-05-2015, 02:44 PM

Thank you one and all for your help. Still working on it, seems zynga doesn't accept pepperflash.

Lee

joec@home · 06-05-2015, 03:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by arizonagroovejet

All the answers given so far seem overly complex given that Flash can be installed from the openSUSE 13.2 repos.

Code:

$ zypper info flash-player
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...


Information for package flash-player:
-------------------------------------
Repository: openSUSE-13.2-Update-Non-Oss
Name: flash-player
Version: 11.2.202.460-2.51.1
Arch: x86_64
Vendor: openSUSE
Installed: Yes
Status: out-of-date (version 11.2.202.457-2.48.1 installed)
Installed Size: 20.9 MiB
Summary: Adobe Flash Plugin and Standalone Player
Description: 
  This package contains Adobe's Flash Plugin for the supported Web
  browsers in addition to a standalone flash player application.
$

Just install the flash-player package.

What have you done so far?

I'm not certain about SUSE but Firefox tends to balk unless you get the Adobe repo plugin and install from their source. I know they have a yum repo, I would hope Adobe has an atp repo as well. Check the website.

John VV · 06-05-2015, 04:26 PM

suse dose not use " yum "
they use "zypper"

so
install using zypper or the adobe site

mind you
Adobe NO LONGER IS SUPPORTING LINUX !
the Linux version is VERY VERY VERY OUT OF DATE!!!!

only the MICROSOFT!!! version is current

for some sites you NEED!!!!! to use Microsoft OS running the MICROSOFT plugin

joec@home · 06-05-2015, 04:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by John VV

suse dose not use " yum "
they use "zypper"

Ah, last time I looked SUSE was using apt, was long ago though.

John VV · 06-05-2015, 06:48 PM

i have been running opensuse for the last 5 years
it uses zypper

EDDY1 · 06-05-2015, 10:06 PM

Do you have /usr/lib/ mozilla/plugins directory. I was only having problems with hulu videos, someone here told me to create a link from /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. So my command appeared as

Quote:

ln -s /usr/lib/flashplugi-nonfree/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

John VV · 06-07-2015, 01:32 PM

this is the 32 bit version
/usr/lib/flashplugi-nonfree/libflashplayer.so

mind you the WINE / IE / hulu solution is 32 bit only

uncihawk · 06-08-2015, 02:47 PM

what I have done is install Fresh Player and at least FF now runs the games, some idiosyncrasies but playable. going to see if it will work in Chrome, Pepperflash is not the best.

Thank you all for your help and suggestions.

Lee