problem with flash-plugin

rahilmaknojia · 12-05-2008, 04:39 PM

I have install flash plugin from yum, but I am not able to fix the problem with mozilla firefox 3. I am using FC 10.

wherever I try to access any website it ask me missing plugin, but I have already install.

is there any solution for this

amani · 12-05-2008, 05:09 PM

32-bit or 64-bit?

Anyway see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/user:amani/Flash: and the other referenced article in it

colucix · 12-05-2008, 05:38 PM

Is there /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so?

Linux von Scratchen · 12-05-2008, 08:31 PM

i had that problem a long time before i realized that, after putting a new *.so in somewhere, i must as root run "ldconfig". You may have to check paths in /etc/ld.so.conf to be sure firefox's plugins will be looked at.

mschrank · 12-05-2008, 08:37 PM

The install program sometimes puts it in the wrong directory.

Find out where your firefox bin is, find out where the installer put the plugin, then put a symbolic link to the flash plugin in the plugins/ folder.

colucix · 12-06-2008, 05:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Linux von Scratchen

i had that problem a long time before i realized that, after putting a new *.so in somewhere, i must as root run "ldconfig". You may have to check paths in /etc/ld.so.conf to be sure firefox's plugins will be looked at.

Yes. This is valid as a general rule. But Firefox simply looks for the plugins where it expects them to be. So, as explained by mschrank, you have to establish were Firefox is installed and create a link to the shared object in the proper location.

You can do this on a system basis (usually in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins) or on a per-user basis (in $HOME/.mozilla/plugins).

Pedroski · 12-06-2008, 06:43 AM

Having the same problem. Although, before I re-installed the whole hard drive, it worked fine!
So don't actually put the libflashplayer.so in the home/myhome/.mozilla directory, just a link?
The installer from Adobe put it there as non root installer.

Pedroski · 12-06-2008, 06:54 AM

I only have /etc/ld.so.conf.d and that only has something concerning the pc architecture. What do I put there? Simply the path to firefox, iceape, epiphany, or whatever?

colucix · 12-06-2008, 06:58 AM

Quote:

Having the same problem. Although, before I re-installed the whole hard drive, it worked fine!
So don't actually put the libflashplayer.so in the home/myhome/.mozilla directory, just a link?
The installer from Adobe put it there as non root installer.

Yes. Just create a link in $HOME/.mozilla/plugins:

Code:

$ cd ~/.mozilla/plugins
$ ln -s /path/to/plugin.so plugin.so

then restart Firefox and check the availability of the plugin issuing about

lugins in the address bar. Related documentation here.

colucix · 12-06-2008, 07:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pedroski

I only have /etc/ld.so.conf.d and that only has something concerning the pc architecture. What do I put there? Simply the path to firefox, iceape, epiphany, or whatever?

No. I think it is not related to plugins. It contains some configuration files related to the location of libraries installed by some specific applications. I don't think it is the correct way to specify where firefox should look for the plugins.

Pedroski · 12-06-2008, 08:04 AM

Well, thanks for the replies.
Will try out later, need to go for a walk.
Using this Debian, somehow you can't get Firefox, you get Mozilla-Firefox.
Iceweasel, or now I tried Iceape. Still no Flashplayer working.
Ran ldconfig. Maybe after a restart it'll work.

Just one question more: do I put the sim link to /usr/lib/epiphany(or whatever)/plugins/ or to wherever epiphany bin is, in this case /usr/bin/epiphany
Mozilla and Mozilla-firefox only have sim link to /usr/lib/iceweasel/iceweasel. This is getting complicated!!!

the trooper · 12-06-2008, 08:43 AM

If you are using Debian then simply add the Debian multimedia repository to /etc/apt/sources.list.
Then: aptitude install flashplayer-mozilla

To check for installed plugins in Iceweasel:
Type: aboutlugins in the address bar.

Regards.
The trooper.

Pedroski · 12-06-2008, 10:18 AM

I already have libflashplayer.so installed.
I copied it as root to all the plugin directories of the various browsers I now have installed, that is to say in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ etc for iceweasel, iceape.
The directory /plugins in of coure not in /usr/lib/bin, but never was, and worked before.

Wonder why it won't work now? Maybe the version 10 is not ok?

Pedroski · 12-06-2008, 10:53 AM

Ok, also tried putting a sim link to libflashplayer.so in /usr/bin where mozilla is.
It is already in all the relevant /plugin directories!
Still won't work! Aaaarrrgggh!

Pedroski · 12-07-2008, 02:46 AM

Flashplayer 9 had a file with it ending in .xpt
Other plugins for totem have such files, in /usr/lib/totem
Is this the problem, or has flashplayer 10 changed the way it works.