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bhanuvrat

26th May 2010, 02:03 PM

I had faced quite a lot of problems with FC12 on my Dell Studio 1450. Today I installed FC13 and have done away with most of them. The only one lingering is the flash on firefox.

I am not able to play video in firefox. In FC12 the video used to run at an excessively fast speed without sound.
Now in FC13 although libflashplayer.so file is present in the /home/user_name/.mozilla/firefox/plugins firefox complains about its absence.

Here are a few links of forum and blog posts which I had made for the problem earlier. They should clear your doubts about the problem.

http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=126652 - situation is worsened.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-laptop-and-netbook-25/graphics-driver-for-ati-radeon-mobility-4530-hd-808428/ - solved in FC13

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-laptop-and-netbook-25/dell-studio-14-installing-graphics-driver-screwed-it-up-806648/ - solved in FC13

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/in-firefox-images-appear-to-be-grainy-791140/

http://bhanuvrat.blog.co.in/2010/04/09/problematic-acpi-on-new-dell-studio-1450-laptop/ - solved

Please help me out

giulix

26th May 2010, 02:19 PM

bhanuvrat

26th May 2010, 04:35 PM

I downloaded the yum thing .. what I got was adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm installed it.

then ran the command as directed by you, here is what I got.

[root@localhost anuvrat]# yum install flash-plugin
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
Setting up Install Process
Nothing to do
[root@localhost anuvrat]#

still no change in the situation ... temme what to do.

giulix

27th May 2010, 08:11 AM

Double check that the repository has indeed been installed in /etc/yum.repos.d. Its name is adobe-linux-i386.repo. If not, repeat the procedure. Also, are you on a x86_64 architecture? I don't know about the state of Flash Player for 64 bit...

bhanuvrat

27th May 2010, 09:20 AM

yes i am on x86_64 arch. presently I am back to FC12 ... will check your settings soon.

will installing from repository do something more than adding a file called libflashplayer.so to /home/user_name/.mozilla/firefox/plugins ??

giulix

27th May 2010, 10:11 AM

Nothing more, just different ;) It installs in /usr/lib

[root@localhost ~]# ls -l /etc/yum.repos.d/
total 56
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 179 2007-07-25 22:45 adobe-linux-i386.repo
...
[root@localhost ~]# rpm -qa |grep flash
flash-plugin-10.0.45.2-release.i386
[root@localhost ~]# find / -name libflashplayer.so
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
/usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
[root@localhost ~]# rpm -qil flash-plugin
Name : flash-plugin Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 10.0.45.2 Vendor: Adobe Systems Inc.
Release : release Build Date: Wed 27 Jan 2010 01:56:44 AM CET
Install Date: Fri 12 Feb 2010 03:23:35 PM CET Build Host: fplayerbuild4-lnx.labs.corp.adobe.com
Group : Applications/Internet Source RPM: flash-plugin-10.0.45.2-release.src.rpm
Size : 10336361 License: Commercial
Signature : DSA/SHA1, Thu 04 Feb 2010 01:15:31 AM CET, Key ID 3a69bd24f6777c67
Packager : Adobe Systems Inc.
URL : http://www.adobe.com/downloads/
Summary : Adobe Flash Player 10.0
Description :
Adobe Flash Plugin 10.0.45.2
Fully Supported: Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.0+, Firefox 1.5+, Mozilla 1.7.13+
/usr/lib/flash-plugin
/usr/lib/flash-plugin/LICENSE
/usr/lib/flash-plugin/README
/usr/lib/flash-plugin/homecleanup
/usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
/usr/lib/flash-plugin/setup
/usr/share/doc/flash-plugin-10.0.45.2
/usr/share/doc/flash-plugin-10.0.45.2/readme.txt

about : plugins

giulix

27th May 2010, 10:33 AM

Check also this guide (http://www.flashconf.com/tag/flash-on-64-bit-fedora/) about installing the 64 bit version. There seems to be some additional requirements..

bhanuvrat

27th May 2010, 02:27 PM

the link you gave does not load :( .. server down perhaps.

giulix

27th May 2010, 02:37 PM

Weird.... works here

David Batson

27th May 2010, 02:37 PM

Go to Adobe's download site (http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/), click on 'Select version to download', select 'YUM for Linux', click on 'Agree and install now'; when firefox download pop-up appears, select 'Open with Package Installer (default)' and follow the guided procedure to install Adobe's repo. Then open a terminal and type

su -c "yum install flash-plugin"

I installed the yum version from Adobe's site and wondered why it didn't work, but then it dawned on me. After installing the file from Adobe's site using Package Installer, I had to go to Yum Extender (or Add/Remove Software) to actually install flash. AFAICT, the yum version from Adobe's site only installs the Adobe repository for Flash, not Flash itself.

giulix

27th May 2010, 02:40 PM

That's correct

bhanuvrat

27th May 2010, 04:54 PM

something might have gone wrong .. I tried it out on FC12 it worked .. will download and install the DVD version of FC13 and try there too.

thanks a lot .. I've been fooling around this thing for over a month now .. and now I have a solution..
but how do I get it to work in other distros? simply copy it in /home/user_name/.mozilla/firefox/plugin??

or manually copy it in /usr/lib/flash_plugin??

bhanuvrat

28th May 2010, 07:06 AM

something is wrong ... FC13 x86_64 does not go by the above method :(

CronoCloud

28th May 2010, 10:31 AM

something is wrong ... FC13 x86_64 does not go by the above method :(

That's right, it doesn't.

http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f13.html#flash

Ron Rogers Jr. (CronoCloud)

esau999

1st June 2010, 12:21 AM

Follow the terminal input here at http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10_64bit.html :

su
yum erase flash-plugin nspluginwrapper*
cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
curl -O http://www.dfm.uninsubria.it/compiz/fusion-testing/flashplayer.x86_64/flash.repo
rpm --import http://www.dfm.uninsubria.it/compiz/fusion-testing/flashplayer.x86_64/RPM-GPG-KEY-leigh123linux
yum install flash-plugin

Worked great for me on F13 Firefox.

desblood4

16th June 2010, 03:25 AM

Hi，my solution for this is to download a flash-player for 64bit linux on Adobe official website->lab, but unluckly, they closed the lab recently because of bugs in flash-player. So my suggestion is either search flash player for 64bit linux (try to find the previous prelease one, stable too, no problem found till now) or waiting for official release.

desblood4

16th June 2010, 03:25 AM

StephenH

16th June 2010, 03:53 AM

You might want to also give gnash a try. Yum remove flash-plugin nswrapper if it is installed, then yum install gnash gnash-plugin. It seems to work better for some sites than Adobe's 32 bit plugin, although it has problems with others. It doesn't take more than a couple of minutes to switch back and forth and see which one works better for you.

Mikka

9th July 2010, 08:20 PM

Follow the terminal input here at http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10_64bit.html :

Adobe labs don't provide the 64bit version any more.

su
yum erase flash-plugin nspluginwrapper*
cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
curl -O http://www.dfm.uninsubria.it/compiz/fusion-testing/flashplayer.x86_64/flash.repo
rpm --import http://www.dfm.uninsubria.it/compiz/fusion-testing/flashplayer.x86_64/RPM-GPG-KEY-leigh123linux
yum install flash-plugin

Worked great for me on F13 Firefox.

Thanks a lot! Works great!

I couldn't play any flash the last few days since upgrade to 64bit F13. I tried every procedure I found on the net with no success. And then I found this simple procedure and flash is working again. Thanks to leigh123linux for maintaining this RPM and repo, especially now Adobe ceased the development of 10.x-64!

I also had big problems in F13 with firefox freezing for MINUTES before it started responding again. It turns out it was the FLASH plugins' fooeness!

Thanks and take care, M.

CamoAnimal

12th July 2010, 11:22 PM

Wish I had come across this last night. Just got a laptop with 4 gigs of ram, so installing Fedora x86_64 was a given, but it took me 3 hours to figure out a solution. Thanks for your help here guys!

desblood4

15th July 2010, 11:34 AM

Hi, guys, latest kernel updates fix the error.

AliasM2K

31st August 2010, 12:02 PM

Go to Adobe's download site (http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/), click on 'Select version to download', select 'YUM for Linux', click on 'Agree and install now'; when firefox download pop-up appears, select 'Open with Package Installer (default)' and follow the guided procedure to install Adobe's repo. Then open a terminal and type

su -c "yum install flash-plugin"

I got it all completed, but still whenever I try to watch any vedio from YouTube or any other sites, I still get error message, saying "you should upgrade your Flash Player":mad:

NahRamp

21st October 2010, 05:51 AM

This worked out perfectly for me with fc13. Enjoy

http://myotherbrain.wordpress.com/2010/09/20/flash-on-64-bit-fc13

StephenH

22nd October 2010, 02:38 PM

Adobe has a new beta for a 64 bit flash player, codenamed "square". You can look at information and download it here:

http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html

You would have to manually check periodically for updates as it would not be available through. I have the 64 bit version installed on my desktop machine. So far, it has been more reliable than the previous versions.

Krusadr

5th November 2010, 06:19 PM

Check also this guide (http://www.flashconf.com/tag/flash-on-64-bit-fedora/) about installing the 64 bit version. There seems to be some additional requirements..

Thanks giulix! That worked for me! :D

I did it from KDE's Software Management by searching for the packages.

Also, just to be sure, I ran the setup script

/usr/lib/flash-plugin/setup

again just to be sure... although it did not output anything.

Thanks!