Adobe flash for F8

[arep3]

Hi everyone.
For ages now ive been trying to get adobe flash installed and working in firefox on my F8 64. Ive found how-to's and instructions everywhere which all seam to be the same thing. they all involve installing nspluginwrapper and running mozilla-plugin-config.
Thats where my problem is. everything is installed or says its installed and when i run mozilla-plugin-config, nothing happens.
Ive tried just running it as a command, running it in terminal and even trying it in root. nothing.
Ive read posts about it on this forum but nothing has been able to help me fix it.
Ive looked for support docs man pages etc but im completely new at this so i haven't had any luck.
Can anybody help me out?
Cheers, Ron

[Zero-Override]

in my /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.12/plugins folder i have a symlink going to /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so and it works like a charm

[arep3]

thanks for the reply. I only have libnullplugin.so and libunixprintplugin.so in my plugins folder. I dont know how to symlink anything...

[Zero-Override]

no problem, that works as follows:
ln -s <location of original file> <location of destination> and you are done

a symlink is a special kind of link, while a program might think it is accessing a local file (or even folder) it is redirected to somewhere else instead (without the program knowing it)

[arep3]

im sorry but i dont know what "ln -s <location of original file> <location of destination>" means...

[koperry]

A very easy way to symlink is to open terminal log in as root, type nautilus, if it is your first time doing this it is easier to set nautilus to open in browser windows under behavior settings. Close, retype nautilus in terminal, when nautilus opens locate flash folder right click on desired file, left click on create link, then use cut, now go to plugin folder and paste link, close nautilus, close terminal and now plugin should work.

[arep3]

Hi koperry.
Im running kde so i had to install nautilus. i opened /usr/lib/flash-plugin and right clicked on libflashplayer.so. created a link to it which gave me a new file called link to libflashplayer.so.
i cut it and pasted it into /usr/lib64/firefox-2.0.0.12/plugins so i now have in this folder /usr/lib64/firefox-2.0.0.12/plugins/Link to libflashplayer.so
It didnt work. is there anything i have missed?

[Nokia]

I think you should use the 32 bit version of firefox. Flash for x64 hasn't been compiled yet.

[arep3]

This is true. there is no 64 bit version of flash. although i do know it if possible to get 32 bit flash installed into 64 bit firefox. My brothers computer is setup like this. unfortunately we both have the same level of experience when it comes to linux. If only mine installed as seamlessly as his did.
Can anybody explain why when i run mozilla-plugin-config, nothing happens?

[Zero-Override]

actually the name is wrong i think could you rename the "link to libflashplayer.so" to "libflashplayer.so" and see if that works?

[arep3]

lol yea i thought i would hafta re name it. i just did that now but there is still no improvement....