Flash player

[Alan Dayley]

On Mon, August 21, 2006 4:56 pm, Kenneth wrote:
> Ok, after the thread the other day that got off on the topic of a flash
> plugin, I decided to try to get one working here, and I've had no luck.
> This
> is on Fedora Core 5, but I have a similar problem on the couple of other
> distros I've used recently.  I just never really needed flash, so I never
> worried about it.
>
> I downloaded the plugin file from the automatic installer that comes up in
> firefox. It installed a .so and a .xpt file into ~/.mozilla/plugins.  If I
> start up firefox and type about:plugins, it does not show the flash
> plugin.
> I checked the permissions on the files, looked ok to me.
>
> Next I tried copying those two files into the /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and
> /usr/lib/firefox/plugins directories and also directories that had mozilla
> and firefox with version numbers.  None of these got far enough to even
> show
> the plugin in about:plugins.
>
> I double-checked the installation instructions online and in the
> downloaded
> file, and I can't see what I did wrong.
>
> Any suggestions?  I tried running mozilla and firefox both, with the same
> results.  I even tried running them with strace. It shows those two plugin
> files being examined...

Google is your friend.
- Go to http://www.google.com
- Enter search term: "install firefox linux flash plugin"
- Click "I'm feeling lucky" (Yes, really!)
- Click "Macromedia Flash Player" in the middle of the list
- Follow the instructions you find there

Alan