Trying to install Flash 10.1 beta on FC12

[Thaidog]

So i wanted to install flash on my FC12 box so I downloaded the flash tarzip and when I extracted it it gave me the .so file. The instructions say to put it in ~/,mozila/plugins and restart firefox but it is not showing flash content after I copied it here. Any ideas?

[CSchwangler]

Did you already try to install it from the Fedora Adobe repository?

http://www.my-guides.net/en/content/..._firefox_flash

[enteFinal]

The guy comments about 10.1 beta release (RC 6 now).


I installed the RC 6, but i copied the file to:
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/

and erase/uninstall all previous versions.


EDIT: You has a 32 or 64 bits system??

[robatino]

If you're using 64-bit Fedora, getting the 32-bit 10.1 beta plugin to work requires installing a few 32-bit packages. See

http://www.flashconf.com/tag/flash-on-64-bit-fedora/

For anyone using F13, the procedure should be the same as for F12.

[Thaidog]

Originally Posted by robatino

If you're using 64-bit Fedora, getting the 32-bit 10.1 beta plugin to work requires installing a few 32-bit packages. See

http://www.flashconf.com/tag/flash-on-64-bit-fedora/

For anyone using F13, the procedure should be the same as for F12.

Following this manual 64 procedure for flash player 10.1 does not work on either of my systems unfortunately. One system with an nvidia chip flat out says flash is not installed and my netbook with integrated intel graphics just gives a blank black screen.

[robatino]

Originally Posted by Thaidog

Following this manual 64 procedure for flash player 10.1 does not work on either of my systems unfortunately. One system with an nvidia chip flat out says flash is not installed and my netbook with integrated intel graphics just gives a blank black screen.

It works fine for me on x86_64 F13. Three possible reasons for failure I can think of: 1) You have to add the .i686 suffix to the package names as indicated to force yum to install the 32-bit versions, 2) since it's a 32-bit plugin, it needs to be in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins (NOT /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins), and 3) the browser needs to be restarted afterwards.

[Thaidog]

Originally Posted by robatino

It works fine for me on x86_64 F13. Three possible reasons for failure I can think of: 1) You have to add the .i686 suffix to the package names as indicated to force yum to install the 32-bit versions, 2) since it's a 32-bit plugin, it needs to be in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins (NOT /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins), and 3) the browser needs to be restarted afterwards.

Tried installing it in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins but it did not work... what .i686 packages would I need to have installed?

[Phodyssey]

Have you done:

yum install nspluginwrapper.i686
mozilla-plugin-config -i
mozilla-plugin-config -l | grep flash

Pho.

[Thaidog]

Originally Posted by Phodyssey

Have you done:

yum install nspluginwrapper.i686
mozilla-plugin-config -i
mozilla-plugin-config -l | grep flash

Pho.

Got an error trying to pull in that package:

Dependencies Resolved

================================================================================
 Package               Arch       Version                    Repository    Size
================================================================================
Installing:
 nspluginwrapper       i686       1.3.0-11.fc13              fedora       161 k
Installing for dependencies:
 c-ares                i686       1.7.0-1.fc13               fedora        51 k
 libcurl               i686       7.20.0-4.fc13              fedora       175 k
 libssh2               i686       1.2.4-1.fc13               fedora        78 k
 ncurses-libs          i686       5.7-7.20100130.fc13        fedora       255 k
 nspr                  i686       4.8.4-2.fc13               fedora       112 k
 nss                   i686       3.12.6-4.fc13              fedora       741 k
 nss-softokn           i686       3.12.4-17.fc13             fedora       169 k
 nss-util              i686       3.12.6-1.fc13              fedora        45 k
 readline              i686       6.1-2.fc13                 fedora       181 k
 sqlite                i686       3.6.22-1.fc13              fedora       309 k

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install      11 Package(s)
Upgrade       0 Package(s)

Total download size: 2.2 M
Installed size: 5.8 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Setting up and reading Presto delta metadata
Processing delta metadata
Package(s) data still to download: 2.2 M
(1/11): c-ares-1.7.0-1.fc13.i686.rpm                     |  51 kB     00:00     
(2/11): libcurl-7.20.0-4.fc13.i686.rpm                   | 175 kB     00:00     
(3/11): libssh2-1.2.4-1.fc13.i686.rpm                    |  78 kB     00:00     
(4/11): ncurses-libs-5.7-7.20100130.fc13.i686.rpm        | 255 kB     00:00     
(5/11): nspluginwrapper-1.3.0-11.fc13.i686.rpm           | 161 kB     00:00     
(6/11): nspr-4.8.4-2.fc13.i686.rpm                       | 112 kB     00:00     
(7/11): nss-3.12.6-4.fc13.i686.rpm                       | 741 kB     00:00     
(8/11): nss-softokn-3.12.4-17.fc13.i686.rpm              | 169 kB     00:00     
(9/11): nss-util-3.12.6-1.fc13.i686.rpm                  |  45 kB     00:00     
(10/11): readline-6.1-2.fc13.i686.rpm                    | 181 kB     00:00     
(11/11): sqlite-3.6.22-1.fc13.i686.rpm                   | 309 kB     00:00     
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total                                           448 kB/s | 2.2 MB     00:05     
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test


Transaction Check Error:
  package nss-softokn-3.12.4-19.fc12.x86_64 (which is newer than nss-softokn-3.12.4-17.fc13.i686) is already installed

Error Summary
-------------

[robatino]

Originally Posted by Thaidog

Tried installing it in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins but it did not work... what .i686 packages would I need to have installed?

For Fedora 12:

su -c 'yum install flash-plugin nspluginwrapper.x86_64 \
nspluginwrapper.i686 alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i686 \
libcurl.i686'

(Same packages apply to Fedora 13.)

---------- Post added at 04:29 PM CDT ---------- Previous post was at 04:22 PM CDT ----------

Originally Posted by Thaidog

Got an error trying to pull in that package:

You probably have an updates-testing version of that package, left over from when updates-testing was enabled in pre-release F13. Use "yum downgrade nss-softokn" which should downgrade it to the present F13 version (nss-softokn-3.12.4-17).

Aside: People are always told that if they install an early version of F13 (such as the Beta) and update, they'll end up with F13 Final. That's not exactly true, since early on updates-testing is enabled and doesn't get disabled until shortly before F13 Final. Those updates-testing packages remain and cause problems like this. You can use "yum list extras" to see a list of packages not available from the currently enabled repos (you'll probably see a lot of updates-testing packages).

[fibster]

Take a look at this thread, I did this last night. It works. I had problems with flash on firefox etc this fixed them.

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=171660

[Thaidog]

Originally Posted by fibster

Take a look at this thread, I did this last night. It works. I had problems with flash on firefox etc this fixed them.

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=171660

Will this install the beta version 10.1 for flash?

[Phodyssey]

Originally Posted by Thaidog

package nss-softokn-3.12.4-19.fc12.x86_64 (which is newer than nss-softokn-3.12.4-17.fc13.i686) is already installed

Have you retried today? It looks like 3.12.4-19 has been pushed in updates now.

Pho