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

c0wb0y · 10-16-2016, 01:18 AM

I beg to differ:

[user@centOS ~]$ ls -l .mozilla/plugins/
total 18896
drwxr-xr-x. 2 user user 4096 Sep 27 10:42 LGPL
-rw-r--r--. 1 user user 19336224 Sep 27 10:42 libflashplayer.so
-r--r--r--. 1 user user 4009 Sep 27 10:42 readme.txt
drwxr-xr-x. 6 user user 4096 Sep 27 10:42 usr

CANADIAN LINUX · 10-16-2016, 09:17 AM

OK. I already had Adobe Flash installer installed. But under Pepper Flash under optional downloads I downloaded Adobe Flash in the software center.

After that it seemed to work?

273 · 10-16-2016, 11:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by c0wb0y

Remove flash player you installed via package manager ...

Why? The package manager is, surely, the reason to pick a distribution? Without going into source-based distributiond the best advice is to install from the package manager -- it allows consistency and means that any support is relevant.

BW-userx · 10-16-2016, 02:03 PM

@CANADIANLINUX

go here and download the deb 32 or 64 bit

inurl:/deb/pool/main/g/google-chrome-stable/

unpack it into your downloads directory, I use ark or file roller .. then Uncompress the data.tar.xz file then go into this directory,

opt/google/chrome/PepperFlash/

you will find libpepflashplayer.so . get out your terminal then

Code:

 sudo mkdir -pv /opt/google/chrome/PepperFlash/

then move your libpepflashplayer.so into that directory. this is one of the default search paths for pepper flash in Firefox .. then you should be back on track..

c0wb0y · 10-16-2016, 05:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 273

Why? The package manager is, surely, the reason to pick a distribution? Without going into source-based distributiond the best advice is to install from the package manager -- it allows consistency and means that any support is relevant.

True. However, installing flash this way found to be less finicky, in my experience at least. Moreso, quite a few sites refuse to work with an outdated flash. And distro-provided flash can at times get behind.

CANADIAN LINUX · 10-16-2016, 09:46 PM

Well thanks for all your help guys. I'm glad its finally working. Too bad Google Chrome with integrated flash is no long updated for 32 bit linux.