On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 09:23 -0500, Chuck wrote:
I am having a hell of a time getting adobe flash to work on a recent 5.2 install.
From rpm install: Running firefox as root -- I have verified there is a symlink in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins that points to the actual plugin located in /usr/lib/flash-plugins nada.
SoI then copied the plugin directly into /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and eliminated the symlink from the equation. nada.
I then installed the plugin into the $HOME/.mozilla/plugins/ directory of a normal user (and making sure everything was read/executable by that user). nada.
At no time does the adobe flash pugin ever appear in the plugins panel when viewing Tools->Addons from within the browser. I see no errors or any logs of any kind getting generated anywhere.
An rpm check of both firefox and the flash plugin return with no complaints.
I see scads of posts on google regarding other adobe flash player woes but none of the solutions i've found so far work.
Since most of the sites I require access to, even metalink, required adobe flash this is a show stopper for me.
Is the firefox losing almost all your plugins? I recently had problems with this. If you go to Edit->Preferences->Advanced->General and see a check for "Always check to see if Firefox is the default browser on startup" it will wipe the ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/pluginreg.dat.
Make sure that is not checked. Instead, on a Gnome Desktop, from the menu bar, System->Preferences->More Preferences->Preferred Applications and select Firefox there.
I notice you said in another post that shockwave came default. Here too I guess. But when I test at the site Lanny referenced, it fails for me too. When I try to download, it says I'm not supported. I just wondered if your shockwave works.
Oh well, that's really OT and for another day.
Anyway, I'm also on a 32 bit and flash installed and runs just fine. Here's some tidbits.
$ rpm -aq|grep -i flash flash-plugin-10.0.22.87-release.i386
$ cat /etc/yum.repos.d/adobe-linux-i386.repo [adobe-linux-i386] name=Adobe Systems Incorporated baseurl=http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/i386/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 priority=5 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux
That was obtained originally from the Adobe site, IIRC.
$ ls -l /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins total 2872 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Feb 25 05:19 libflashplayer.so -> /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so <snip uninteresting entries> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 127260 Nov 5 18:51 nppdf.so
In my pluginreg.dat, I see
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/nswrapper_32_32.libflashplayer.so:$
That reminds me that during my previous travails, someone suggested that we needed the plugin wrapper. I don't know if this is so, but it's working for me with the wrappers.
I don't recall how that is setup - I think from one of the FF administration windows.
$ ls -l /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/ total 736 <snip unrelated stuff> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 37 Dec 6 14:27 npwrapper.so -> /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/npwrapper.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 80500 Dec 6 14:27 nswrapper_32_32.libflashplayer.so <snip again> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 80500 Dec 6 14:27 nswrapper_32_32.nppdf.so
ls -l /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/ total 344 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 31304 Jul 17 2008 npconfig -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2714 Jul 17 2008 npviewer -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 137372 Jul 17 2008 npviewer.bin -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 80500 Jul 17 2008 npwrapper.so -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 61420 Jul 17 2008 plugin-config
$ ls -l $(locate libflashplayer) # I see an older version still there lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Feb 25 05:19 /usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.12/plugins/libflashplayer.so -> /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10131640 Feb 2 21:06 /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Feb 25 05:19 /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so -> /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 80500 Dec 6 14:27 /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/nswrapper_32_32.libflashplayer.so
$ ls -l /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10131640 Feb 2 21:06 /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so [wild-bill@centos501 ~]$ file /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), stripped
My setup is "box stock" for this stuff, so I don't think you should need to mess with tarballs, source, betas, etc.
Thanks for any help, CC
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