[SOLVED] Adobe Flash gone screwy...

Ihatewindows · #1 9th November 2012, 02:26 AM

Ok, I go to watch a YouTube video, and it says that I need the Shockwave Flash plugin. No sweat. I go to Adobe and download the YUM version. Everything is up to date. I go to watch my YouTube video, it says I still don't have my plugin, which I go to reinstall, thinking that maybe it didn't install. But it's installed. No matter how many times I restarted Firefox, I was only able to play a different video once on this Feodra install. If anyone can help, it would be nice about now

Thanks!

trekkie690 · #2 9th November 2012, 02:33 AM

did you reboot the box or logout/login?

Ihatewindows · #3 9th November 2012, 02:37 AM

Yes, I did.

I can see Flash is installed in KDE system settings, and I can change prefs on it. But I still cannot watch a video!!!
Still, some will play, and some will not.

solo2101 · #4 9th November 2012, 02:40 AM

Try easylife

http://easylifeproject.org/

Ihatewindows · #5 9th November 2012, 02:40 AM

For now, I can download them and watch them in VLC (with my Firefox addon), but that is if I have to.

marko · #6 9th November 2012, 02:57 AM

Sometimes it helps to quit firefox, delete the pluginreg.dat file in your Firefox profile directory then restart Firefox and go to the top menu and follow : Tools -> AddOns -> Plugins (hitting the plugins tab makes it re-create the file and search for all new plugins)

The problem is that that file tells firefox where the plugin is, if you didn't have it before, it keeps believing the pluginreg.dat file which says you don't have one instead of actually looking and finding the flash you just installed

Unfortunately deleting it and recreating via firefox means you have to reconfigure which plugins you have activated and deactivated.. it's not too hard though, just hit the Disable and Enable buttons you want

Ihatewindows · #7 9th November 2012, 03:39 AM

Pardon me if I may ask, but where is the .dat file?

Emewhort · #8 9th November 2012, 05:34 AM

hopefully you're not afraid of copy and pasting into your terminal
so depending on what you want either 32 or 64 bit flash copy and paste the corresponding commands
32 bit
rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe...0-1.noarch.rpm
rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux

Emewhort · #9 9th November 2012, 05:36 AM

So I was limited with my post so I have a URL with some instructions for you.. http://www.if-not-true-then-false.co...-red-hat-rhel/

***DBelton*** · #10 9th November 2012, 01:09 PM

By chance, do you have the totem-mozplugin and totem-mozplugin-vegas installed?

Those packages will grab your flash videos and it has big problems playing them.

Code:

yum remove totem-mozplugin totem-mozplugin-vegas

Ihatewindows · #11 9th November 2012, 03:07 PM

Okay, thanks! Flash is now working like a charm!

marko · #12 9th November 2012, 07:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ihatewindows

Pardon me if I may ask, but where is the .dat file?

<your home directory>/.mozilla/firefox/<randomcharacters>.default/pluginreg.dat

Or with a new firefox like version 17, you can go to 'Help' -> 'Troubleshooting Information' in the menu can hit
the Profile Directory "Open Directory" button that will take you to the profile directory