On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 15:02 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote:
On 3/29/09, William L. Maltby CentOS4Bill@triad.rr.com wrote:
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.
<snip> >> An rpm check of both firefox and the flash plugin return with no >> complaints. >> <snip> > 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.
I believe, but am not positive, from some reading on the Adobe site, that one of their viewers also contains the other one. So, I suspect that the one it says is not available for your box or mine is included in the one that we do have installed and running.
Yeah, I'm planning on doing a "provides" later to see where it comes from. That may give a clue as to why it doesn't work now.
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My setup is "box stock" for this stuff, so I don't think you should need to mess with tarballs, source, betas, etc.
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Bill: Do you remember if there is a command one needs to use, to get the plugin to work?
You mean for flash player, not shockwave, right?
At my age, only two brain cells function simultaneously! ;-) So of course I don't remember!
But I do recall that during our lengthy pursuit of similar problems some folks made suggestions. I suspect that the wrapper is the bit that's needed.
I've hit the archives and found this. I don't know enough to say if it is needed. But the suggestion was from the RH triage person (Matej - suddenly dropped off the thread).
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2008-December/068898.html
I don't think this next is related, but ...
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2008-December/069744.html
I'm not sure if I had to do that for Flash or another Firefox Plugin or if it was for something else.
The only other think I can think of is to gointo the place in FF where you manage add-ons and look in the applications area to see that the flash reader is referenced.
I'm going to start there for the shockwave thingy.
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HTH