Flash player

[Steven A. DuChene]

Are you by chance running 64bit OS on an AMD64 or Intel EM64T
type of system?

-----Original Message-----
>From: Kenneth <madhse at yahoo.com>
>Sent: Aug 21, 2006 8:44 PM
>To: alandd at consultpros.com, Main PLUG discussion list <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
>Subject: Re: Flash player
>
>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 at 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