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.
Thanks for any help, CC
On Sun Mar 29 09:23:38 AM, Chuck wrote:
I am having a hell of a time getting adobe flash to work on a recent 5.2 install.
32-bit or 64-bit?
The adobe flash plugin is 32-bit only and won't work with the 64-bit local version of Firefox (I could never get it to work anyway).
On my 64-bit 5.2 machines, I have a separate 32-bit install of firefox in /usr/local/firefox (downloaded from the mozilla site) and the plugin works fine.
Cheers, Zube
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Zube Zube@cs.colostate.edu wrote:
On Sun Mar 29 09:23:38 AM, Chuck wrote:
I am having a hell of a time getting adobe flash to work on a recent 5.2 install.
32-bit or 64-bit?
The adobe flash plugin is 32-bit only and won't work with the 64-bit local version of Firefox (I could never get it to work anyway).
On my 64-bit 5.2 machines, I have a separate 32-bit install of firefox in /usr/local/firefox (downloaded from the mozilla site) and the plugin works fine.
Cheers, Zube _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
I'm running 32-bit centos. I'll try downloading firefox I guess... Also having some oracle issues as well on centos 5.2.... Might be reverting back to suse if I run into any more roadblocks...
Thanks for the help, CC
2009/3/29 Chuck chuck.carson@gmail.com:
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Zube Zube@cs.colostate.edu wrote:
On Sun Mar 29 09:23:38 AM, Chuck wrote:
I am having a hell of a time getting adobe flash to work on a recent 5.2 install.
32-bit or 64-bit? The adobe flash plugin is 32-bit only and won't work with the 64-bit local version of Firefox (I could never get it to work anyway).
On my 64-bit 5.2 machines, I have a separate 32-bit install of firefox in /usr/local/firefox (downloaded from the mozilla site) and the plugin works fine.
<snip>
I'm running 32-bit centos. I'll try downloading firefox I guess... Also having some oracle issues as well on centos 5.2.... Might be reverting back to suse if I run into any more roadblocks...
Do you have the adobe Yum repository installed? Also, there may be a command you need to give, after you install the plug in, to get it running. If that is true, I can't remember what the command is....
Zube wrote:
On Sun Mar 29 09:23:38 AM, Chuck wrote:
I am having a hell of a time getting adobe flash to work on a recent 5.2 install.
32-bit or 64-bit?
The adobe flash plugin is 32-bit only and won't work with the 64-bit local version of Firefox (I could never get it to work anyway).
On my 64-bit 5.2 machines, I have a separate 32-bit install of firefox in /usr/local/firefox (downloaded from the mozilla site) and the plugin works fine.
32bit flash works on 64bit firefox just fine. All you have to do is ensure that nspluginwrapper is installed, and 32bit flash is installed, then restart firefox. It should "Just Work(TM)".
2009/3/29 Chuck chuck.carson@gmail.com:
I am having a hell of a time getting adobe flash to work on a recent 5.2 install.
Are you using CentOS 5.2 32 bit or 64 bit? I'm using 32 bit and have Shockwave Flash installed and working with Firefox v.3.0.6. Does that work for you? When I test at this URL: http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/welcome/ it shows the 2nd one working: "Adobe Flash Player". For the animation at the top, for "Adobe Shockwave Player" it shows that I need another plugin, so I will try to get that....
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Lanny Marcus lmmailinglists@gmail.comwrote:
2009/3/29 Chuck chuck.carson@gmail.com:
I am having a hell of a time getting adobe flash to work on a recent 5.2 install.
Are you using CentOS 5.2 32 bit or 64 bit? I'm using 32 bit and have Shockwave Flash installed and working with Firefox v.3.0.6. Does that work for you? When I test at this URL: http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/welcome/ it shows the 2nd one working: "Adobe Flash Player". For the animation at the top, for "Adobe Shockwave Player" it shows that I need another plugin, so I will try to get that.... _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Yes adobe flash player is the one I can't get working. Shockwave came default. Here is the version I am running: (with all updates)
Linux billabong 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5 #1 SMP Tue Dec 16 12:03:43 EST 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
billabong: ==> 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
billabong:~ ==> ls -l /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Mar 29 08:41 libflashplayer.so -> /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
billabong:~ ==> rpm --verify flash-plugin && echo $? 0
I have tried the rpm install and the manual install of adobe flash... md5 of both binaries is the same.
Thanks for any help, CC
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Chuck chuck.carson@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Lanny Marcus lmmailinglists@gmail.comwrote:
2009/3/29 Chuck chuck.carson@gmail.com:
I am having a hell of a time getting adobe flash to work on a recent 5.2 install.
Are you using CentOS 5.2 32 bit or 64 bit? I'm using 32 bit and have Shockwave Flash installed and working with Firefox v.3.0.6. Does that work for you? When I test at this URL: http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/welcome/ it shows the 2nd one working: "Adobe Flash Player". For the animation at the top, for "Adobe Shockwave Player" it shows that I need another plugin, so I will try to get that.... _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Yes adobe flash player is the one I can't get working. Shockwave came default. Here is the version I am running: (with all updates)
Linux billabong 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5 #1 SMP Tue Dec 16 12:03:43 EST 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
billabong: ==> 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
billabong:~ ==> ls -l /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Mar 29 08:41 libflashplayer.so -> /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
billabong:~ ==> rpm --verify flash-plugin && echo $? 0
I have tried the rpm install and the manual install of adobe flash... md5 of both binaries is the same.
Thanks for any help, CC
Well I can't seem to download a viable firefox tarball... I've just downloaded to 3 different machines (one vista, one xp, and my centos server) -- all file sizes are different and bzip complains about a corrupt archive. I don't see any mirror sites listed on mozilla.com either... /sigh The file is supposed to be 8.6mb... The largest of my downloads so far was 6.4mb and it wouldn't extract. So mozilla.com is having some problems... If anyone knows of a mirror or doesn't mind emailing me the 3.0.8 32-bit tarball I'd appreciate it. I was really hoping to get my php/oracle dev environment up today but doesn't look good.
Thanks for any help, -CC
On 3/29/09, Chuck chuck.carson@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Chuck chuck.carson@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Lanny Marcus lmmailinglists@gmail.comwrote:
2009/3/29 Chuck chuck.carson@gmail.com:
I am having a hell of a time getting adobe flash to work on a recent 5.2 install.
<snip>
Yes adobe flash player is the one I can't get working. Shockwave came default. Here is the version I am running: (with all updates)
Linux billabong 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5 #1 SMP Tue Dec 16 12:03:43 EST 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
billabong: ==> 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
billabong:~ ==> ls -l /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Mar 29 08:41 libflashplayer.so -> /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
billabong:~ ==> rpm --verify flash-plugin && echo $? 0
I have tried the rpm install and the manual install of adobe flash... md5 of both binaries is the same.
Well I can't seem to download a viable firefox tarball... I've just downloaded to 3 different machines (one vista, one xp, and my centos server)
Why do you want to download a tarball? Installing from a tarball, when an RPM is available, is strongly discouraged, in the documentation available on centos.org If you want to change the Source code, get the SRPM. Have you uninstalled the Firefox RPM? If so "yum install firefox" will get a new copy for you. I am not positive, but I think that after I installed one Firefox Plugin that didn't work, someone on the list gave me a command, to get it up and running. If that's the case, I don't remember the command, but you may be able to search the archives or on the Mozilla Support site for information about that. GL
On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 09:23:38 -0500 Chuck wrote:
I am having a hell of a time getting adobe flash to work on a recent 5.2 install.
Do you have curl.i386 installed? (I've been bitten by this before.)
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Frank Cox theatre@sasktel.net wrote:
On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 09:23:38 -0500 Chuck wrote:
I am having a hell of a time getting adobe flash to work on a recent 5.2 install.
Do you have curl.i386 installed? (I've been bitten by this before.)
-- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com
Yes curl is installed.. (I installed everything except virtualization and storage virt.)
billabong:~ ==> rpm -q -a | grep -i curl curl-7.15.5-2.el5 curl-devel-7.15.5-2.el5
-CC
On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 11:40:51 -0500 Chuck wrote:
Yes curl is installed.. (I installed everything except virtualization and storage virt.)
billabong:~ ==> rpm -q -a | grep -i curl curl-7.15.5-2.el5 curl-devel-7.15.5-2.el5
curl.i386
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Frank Cox theatre@sasktel.net wrote:
On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 11:40:51 -0500 Chuck wrote:
Yes curl is installed.. (I installed everything except virtualization and storage virt.)
billabong:~ ==> rpm -q -a | grep -i curl curl-7.15.5-2.el5 curl-devel-7.15.5-2.el5
curl.i386
-- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com
Those are i386 builds of curl. Not sure what tool is printing the info out like that for you but I have i386 build of curl installed. Those are the only 2 curl packages that ship with centos 5.2. Curl would only affect the install process anyways, which I did. There is something deeper at fault here.
-Chuck
On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 12:12:44 -0500 Chuck wrote:
Those are i386 builds of curl. Not sure what tool is printing the info out like that for you but I have i386 build of curl installed. Those are the only 2 curl packages that ship with centos 5.2.
You're absolutely sure about that....
ftp://ftp.muug.mb.ca/mirror/centos/5.2/os/x86_64/CentOS/curl-7.15.5-2.el5.x86_64.rpm
Curl would only affect the install process anyways, which I did. There is something deeper at fault here.
I set up a Centos x86_64 machine the other day and flash did not work until I installed the i386 version of curl. And that version is apparently not installed by default.
Type this:
yum install curl.i386
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Frank Cox theatre@sasktel.net wrote:
On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 12:12:44 -0500 Chuck wrote:
Those are i386 builds of curl. Not sure what tool is printing the info
out
like that for you but I have i386 build of curl installed. Those are the only 2 curl packages that ship with centos 5.2.
You're absolutely sure about that....
ftp://ftp.muug.mb.ca/mirror/centos/5.2/os/x86_64/CentOS/curl-7.15.5-2.el5.x86_64.rpm
Curl would only affect the install process anyways, which I did. There is something deeper at fault here.
I set up a Centos x86_64 machine the other day and flash did not work until I installed the i386 version of curl. And that version is apparently not installed by default.
Type this:
yum install curl.i386
-- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com
Im on i386 platform as illustrated by my uname and file output above. Since I'm running 32bit, there are only 2 packages of curl - the core package and the dev libs.... Once again though, curl is used by the installer (man curl to see what curl does), not once its installed.. I manually installed curl, thus eliminating curl being the issue anyways.
-CC
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
<snip sig stuff>
HTH
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.
<snip>
My setup is "box stock" for this stuff, so I don't think you should need to mess with tarballs, source, betas, etc.
So is my box and messing with tarballs, etc., when it is not necessary, and it is not necessary in this case; is *strongly* discouraged by the CentOS developers and very knowledgeable people on this list. Explained in the Support documentation (Wiki) on centos.org
Bill: Do you remember if there is a command one needs to use, to get the plugin to work? I'm not sure if I had to do that for Flash or another Firefox Plugin or if it was for something else.
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.
<snip>
My setup is "box stock" for this stuff, so I don't think you should need to mess with tarballs, source, betas, etc.
<snip>
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.
<snip sig stuff>
HTH
Chuck wrote:
I am having a hell of a time getting adobe flash to work on a recent 5.2 install.
From a stock CentOS 5 system, fully updated do the following:
1) Install Adobe's yum repository configuration: rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch...
2) Install flash-plugin with yum yum install flash-plugin
3) Start, or restart firefox.
This should work on any x86 or x86_64 installation of CentOS 5. If it does not, then it is possible that someone has misconfigured something in the system, or in the user's firefox configuration that is conflicting or messing with flash. Before messing with anything in the system to try and "fix" it, create a new dummy user account, and fire up firefox in the new user account to see if flash works in this default state. If it does, but it does not work in your own user account, then something in your user account's firefox configuration might be interfering with its ability to see flash for some reason.
You can confirm that flash is present by going to "about:plugins" in the firefox location bar.
Once firefox is showing up in about:plugins and flash sites are displaying, you may encounter other problems with flash. Visit YouTube, and if you notice that flash videos are incredibly slow and gimpy and/or audio cuts out, or the video/audio freeze for long periods of time especially on startup, then do the following:
1) Press CTRL-0 to unzoom the current webpage, and do not use the firefox CTRL+mousewheel zoom feature. Reload the page to see if the video plays ok now.
2) If CTRL-0 above allows video to play back properly or even just "better", then your X server might not be configured correctly.
3) Check your X server log to see if "EXA" acceleration is being used. If it shows that "XAA" is being used, then you may not be able to use the firefox "zoom" feature on flash enabled webpages unless you enable "EXA" acceleration for your video hardware (assuming the driver you are using supports EXA).
You may or may not experience other performance or video/audio glitch issues with flash. Mozilla's bugzilla is chock full of tonnes of flash issues on Linux.
Anyhow, I hope this helps you get things working. Good luck.
TTYL
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Zube