[SOLVED] Unable to install flash plugin in firefox and Chrome

I am using Fedora 10 I have downloaded flash-plugin-10.1.85.3-release.i386.rpm and installed in my system. But when I am trying to install plugins on my browser by following command

yum install flash-plugin

terminal showing me this

Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
Package flash-plugin-10.1.85.3-release.i386 installed and not available
Nothing to do

I am trying to install flash plugins by logging in Super User
Please help me
Thanx,

[jpollard]

As it said - package is already installed.

ya but how to enable flash in firefox and chrome because I am unable to see any flash application in my both browser

[jpollard]

According to several external directions, all you should need is a symbolic link
from ~/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so.

On my system, I have the 64 bit version installed in my .mozilla/plugins directory -
but there is also a "flashplayer.xpt" file.

It has been a while, but I think I installed mine via the experimental 64 bit version...
which did include the xpt file.

Try just putting the symbolic link in and see what happens - the xpt file should be
optional...

[ozjd]

Chrome doesn't need flash as it is part of the app for recent 32 bit versions. You may need to go to the plugins screen in the browser and enable it. Type aboutlugins as the url.

Hi,
I am sorry guys I did not get you because I do not know much about Fedora and I am new here. I have tried to enable plugin in chrome by typing aboutlugins but there are no such option named flash is disabled. And i did not understand what I need to do to enable the plugin in fire fox. please tell me in details.
Thanks,

[PabloTwo]

For the Firefox flash plug-in, if you are using 32 bit F10, you can create the symbolic link with this command:

su
enter root password
ln -s /usr/lib/flashplayer/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
exit

If firefox was open when you did that, then close it and restart it.
When you type

about:plugins

in the url bar of a browser tab, it shows you which browser plug-ins are active. You can not change any settings from that page. If you successfully installed the flash plug-in for firefox, then you should see an entry titled "Shockwave Flash". You can also check your firefox plug-ins by simply clicking on Tools > Add-ons > Plugins from the firefox toolbar.

when I am going to install by

ln -s /usr/lib/flashplayer/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

system showing me

ln: creating symbolic link `/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so': File exists

but unable to find shokwave in

 about:plugins

[egrar]

Flash plugins "how to" extensively discussed in this thread.

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=205642

no such help from the thread any other suggestion?

[nyjetshead]

Go to the adobe site download the tar.gz version of the flash player for 32 bit Linux
Extract it and copy into /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
You must be root to copy it.

You can also start archive roller as root and extract it directly into /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

su -
file-roller

Enjoy!

How exactly I do that by command? and what about Chrome?

[nyjetshead]

Sorry I left out the -

Start file roller using the terminal as root:

su - ( then enter your root password when prompted)
file-roller

Once you installed the plugin your done.
check the about:plugins page to see that it's enabled in chrome.
If you did everything correctly you will see the plugin as well in the same page on Fire fox.
Chrome and firefox use the same plugin, nothing needs to be done for chrome.

So, I don't need to get a rpm file?

[nyjetshead]

Originally Posted by Abhijit4daksh

So, I don't need to get a rpm file?

Correct... this way... you are manually installing one file as explained in the previous posts.
This assumes 32 bit Fedora it is different for X64