[SOLVED] Unable to run Flash in Firefox 49.0...... libflashplayer.so is in the mozilla plugins folder?

CANADIAN LINUX · 10-15-2016, 11:51 AM

Hello,

I'm unable to run Flash in Firefox 49.0.....libflashplayer.so is in the mozilla plugins folder. So technically this should be working.

I'm currently running Ubuntu 14.04 in 32 bit.

Any assistance would be great thanks.

sag47 · 10-15-2016, 12:51 PM

See http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...4/#post5618394 but I will continue to answer your questions here.

273 · 10-15-2016, 01:34 PM

How are you installing Flash? The Ubuntu way should just work.

CANADIAN LINUX · 10-15-2016, 03:27 PM

I've installing flash the Ubuntu way

I've installed libflashplayer.so and placed it into plugin

I've installed Freshplayer

I've installed Pepper

Chrome is no longer updated in 32 bit for Linux

I've installed Chromium and placed libflashplayer.so and placed into plugin.....still no luck

Thanks for the replies

c0wb0y · 10-15-2016, 04:27 PM

Quote:

I've installed libflashplayer.so and placed it into plugin

Can you let us know which plugin directory? Did you try grabbing a .tar.gz version then uncompress it there?

CANADIAN LINUX · 10-15-2016, 04:43 PM

I placed the *.so file in Mozilla plugin and also chromium plugin.

It was the tar.gz version that was extracted.

c0wb0y · 10-15-2016, 04:54 PM

So on both system and user plugin directories? When you go to firefox about

lugins does it says anything about the plugin?

BW-userx · 10-15-2016, 07:50 PM

Install Fresh Player Plugin in Ubuntu via PPA

Update: FreshPlayerPlugin is now available in the official Ubuntu 15.10 and 16.04. You can continue to use the PPA to get newer versions though.

so I do not know if this will work but trying to find a wrapper install for flash player might do the trick

273 · 10-15-2016, 08:00 PM

This is an odd situation -- I went to download Ubuntu 14.4 32 bit to try these things out but it's taking forever.
I still think that there's something wrong with this install or the method used to get Flash. Flash install is not great but it's a solved problem, surely? I've Ubuntu 14.4 32 bit downloading as I type though so if I see anything untoward I will be sure to report.

CANADIAN LINUX · 10-15-2016, 10:35 PM

I placed the libflashplayer.so in firefox/add-ons/plugins received error message unable to load libpepperplayer.so....close almost there.

c0wb0y · 10-15-2016, 10:51 PM

Ok, try uncompressing everything at:

~/.mozilla/plugins

then restart firefox

if it still doesn't work, do the same at /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins

frankbell · 10-15-2016, 11:01 PM

Quote:

.libflashplayer.so is in the mozilla plugins folder

Do you mean /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins? libflashplayer.so has always worked for me when it's in that location.

This is from the computer I'm typing on right now (it's a 64-bit computer, so the directory is lib64).

Code:

# ls /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins
libflashplayer.so  skypebuttons.so

CANADIAN LINUX · 10-15-2016, 11:49 PM

It is in both Mozilla Plugins and Firefox-Addons Plugins

It is asking for libpepflashplayer.so and PPAPI plugin backend.

I put libfreshwrapper-flashplayer.so in firefox-add-ons plugins

c0wb0y · 10-16-2016, 12:03 AM

Remove flash player you installed via package manager AND the ones under Firefox addons plugins directory.

Grab a fresh tar.gz and uncompress it at ~/.mozilla/plugins

John VV · 10-16-2016, 01:11 AM

also firefox is not here"
~/.mozilla/plugins"
but here

/home/userName/.mozilla/firefox/RANDOM_NUMBER.default/

or for 32 bit
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins