install flash player on firefox fc4

[ofblong]

I was able to install flash player on fc4 but firefox wont use it. still says flash player not installed no matter what site I goto. how do I get firefox 2 to see that flash player is installed?

[JohnVV]

update to fedora 8 or 9
also you need to be root to install it

[ofblong]

I am in the process of doing that. Just dont really want to go through the pain of resetting up my ntfs partitions to be read in fc and a few other things like 3dfx for games.

[PabloTwo]

Hello ofblong-

In order for your installation of FireFox to use the Flashplayer plugin you must either put a copy of the flashplugin file into the plugins directory in firefox, or, create a symbolic link in your firefox plugins directory that points to the flashplugin file.

On my FC6 install, the actual flashplayer file is installed here:
/usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so

My Fedora installed Firefox program and the path to it's plugins directory is here:
/usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.12/plugins

So, to create the symbolic link in the Firefox plugins directory that points to the actual flashplayer plugin file, I would, as root, open a terminal and type
ln -s /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.12/plugins
Determine the actual paths on your system to both of those places and substitute them for the ones in my example above. If all goes right, then you can launch firefox, then type
about:pluginsthat's 'about' then a colon ':' then 'plugins' all run together
in the address bar and you should see an entry for the flashplayer plugin there.

[ofblong]

thanks pablo :D.