flash plug-in not working for Firefix or Opera - help needed

[astrobob]

Hello.

I searched alot & tried installing flash plug-in but none has yet solved the problem.

it's currently installed but doesn't work in opera & firefox.:mad: Moreover I tried removing it & re-intalling it with yum & rpm but the problem persists. anyone?:)

thx

BOB Merhebi
Dell Inspiron 8600
Fedora 10

[lovenemesis]

How did you install the flash-plugin ? Via yum or the tar.gz ? 32bit or 64bit?

Goto http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ and choose YUM for Linux.

Then follow the instruction on the website.

[Wayne]

It was working fine here in Firefox 3.0.5 when linked to the usual place /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins but stopped working after upgrading to FF 3.0.6. Do a soft link to:

usr/lib/browser-plugins

or

/home/username/.mozilla/plugins

and it should work again.

Wayne

[manuleka]

How did you install the flash-plugin ? Via yum or the tar.gz ? 32bit or 64bit?

Goto http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ and choose YUM for Linux.

Then follow the instruction on the website.

mine works fine for both after installing using above instructions... i installed plugin before installing Opera... have to point or move plugin to .Mozilla folder

also when downloading Opera just opt for Fedora/YUM Rpm...

[JonathanR]

It was working fine here in Firefox 3.0.5 when linked to the usual place /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins but stopped working after upgrading to FF 3.0.6. Do a soft link to:

usr/lib/browser-plugins

or

/home/username/.mozilla/plugins

and it should work again.

Wayne

Using the above, /usr/lib/browser-plugins is global where as /home/username/.mozilla/plugins is for that user's directory. Personally, I'd recommend both. So a soft link, that's ln -s, to:

/home/username/.mozilla/plugins

and

/home/username/.mozilla/plugins

[JonathanR]

Make sure to check selinux. As I suspected, since I have the same issue, after reading the Fedora wiki about flash, at the end of the wiki it talks about selinux and flash.

su -c 'setsebool -P allow_unconfined_nsplugin_transition=0'

Read it here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flash

[astrobob]

actually i already used adobe's site & followed the instruction. When I try to reinstall:

yum install flash plug-in
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
fedora | 2.8 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-free-updates | 2.7 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-free | 2.7 kB 00:00
updates | 2.3 kB 00:00
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
No package flash available.
No package plug-in available.
Nothing to do


Please assist me step by step as I don't know much in the commands. I'm a newbie :)

thx

[darkshadow]

download the package from the adobe web site and install it with rpm -Uvh packagename.rpm

Fedora (http://www.linux-archive.org/fedora-development/)

[JonathanR]

actually i already used adobe's site & followed the instruction. When I try to reinstall:

yum install flash plug-in
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
fedora | 2.8 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-free-updates | 2.7 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-free | 2.7 kB 00:00
updates | 2.3 kB 00:00
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
No package flash available.
No package plug-in available.
Nothing to do


Please assist me step by step as I don't know much in the commands. I'm a newbie :)

thx

To start with, make sure yum has the adobe repo. Read this: http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f10.html#flash

[suyashkmr]

yum install flash plug-in
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
fedora | 2.8 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-free-updates | 2.7 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-free | 2.7 kB 00:00
updates | 2.3 kB 00:00
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
No package flash available.
No package plug-in available.
Nothing to do

hi,
its supposed to be
yum install flash-plugin

also if you have downloaded the .rpm from the adobe website then,
cd to the folder where it has been downloaded and then
do :
yum install packagename.rpm
please post if this doesn't work

[Wayne]

If you've downloaded the file to your PC then the command to install it is:

yum localinstall packagename.rpm

Wayne

[astrobob]

Wht then did I install b4?

here is the result:

yum install flash-plugin-10.0.12.36-release.i386.rpm
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
Examining flash-plugin-10.0.12.36-release.i386.rpm: flash-plugin-10.0.12.36-release.i386
Marking flash-plugin-10.0.12.36-release.i386.rpm to be installed
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package flash-plugin.i386 0:10.0.12.36-release set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

================================================== ==============================
Package
Arch Version Repository Size
================================================== ==============================
Installing:
flash-plugin
i386 10.0.12.36-release flash-plugin-10.0.12.36-release.i386.rpm 9.6 M

Transaction Summary
================================================== ==============================
Install 1 Package(s)
Update 0 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)

Total download size: 9.6 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:


Package flash-plugin-10.0.12.36-release.i386.rpm is not signed


wht seems the problem?

& thx Wayne I will do read it.

[Wayne]

Try:

yum install --nogpgcheck flash-plugin

Wayne

[astrobob]

actually I used

rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux
yum install flash-plugin

from http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f10.html#flash

& it finally worked.

thank you all guys. I really appreciate it.