Those are the instructions I followed. I tried a lot of variations with
directories, installing for system-wide or single user, etc. No luck with
any of them. It seems I'm the only one that has trouble with it.
--- Alan Dayley <
alandd@consultpros.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>
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