adobe flash player plugin missing in firefox
If I login as root, the firefox works fine. But if I login as user, firefox always shows this msg: missing plugins of adobe flash player. But if I try to install it, it always fails. And I am pretty sure it's already installed , just somehow the user account cannot see it. How can I fix this problem? Thanks!
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Funny I've never been able to get Flashplayer to install logged in as root. I'm sure it is just a silly path thing but somehow it always seems to work if you install it as a regular user??
Sorry I'm not any help, just trying to learn a few things myself.. |
check user permissions.
Make sure that your user has all necessary privileges. Sounds like you are missing a needed group.
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What do you have in /usr/lib/firefox/plugins?
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Thanks XavierP
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lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Mar 2 20:39 libflashplayer.so -> /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 127260 Feb 29 15:51 nppdf.so* Do I need to change the properties here? Thanks! |
That's saying that the flashplayer lib is linked to /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so, so the obvious question to me seems to make sure that that file actually is there and has the right permissions on it.
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-rwxr-xr-x 1 user root 8119784 Nov 20 18:24 libflashplayer.so* But when I tried to execute this file, I got this msg: Segmentation fault Dose this mean the lib is not correctly installed? If so, how can I fix this? I've tried to uninstall the package from the Add/Remove window, and re-installed it, the same problem still exists. |
Try copying the libflashplayer file to the plugins folder and removing the symlink.
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ERROR: Your architecture, \'x86_64\', is not supported by the Adobe Flash Player installer. But if this is true, why would it be ok when logging as root? (previously I installed by yum directly) |
The installer from adobe doesn't work with 64bit systems, though there's things that can be done to workaround it and get flash to work. Fedora may have those workarounds setup when you install using yum. Not sure if that has anything to do with why things work as root and not your regular user, but it could be possible.
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I am still working on to get this flash/swf/java working with my mozilla browser. One question I don't understand is that the yum update says there's a missing library of libswfdec-0.3.so.0()(64bit), while the Add/Remove application says I already have the two libraries
mozilla-swfdec -0.3.6-2.e15.rf.x86_64 - Mozilla plugin for Flash rendering and swfdec -0.3.6-2.e15.rf.x86_64 - Flash animation rendering library installed. So what's the missing link here? Thanks! Code:
# yum update |
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