Help - No flashplayer in Firefox

[MattDobson]

I cant get flashplayer to work in Firefox 3.0. I had it going but I had no sound so I messed around with something in the terminal and no Flash has gone completely.

[chief_sealth]

What did you do in the terminal? If you removed Flash with zypper or rpm, it should simply be a matter of installing it again.

[MattDobson]

I did this:

As su in a console
cd /usr/lib/browser-plugins/
mv libflashplayer.so libflashplayer.so-old
ln -s /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so ./libflashplayer.so

[caf4926]

Try removing the package libflashsupport

Again remember the repos are down

[caf4926]

Post result of

rpm -qi flash-player

[caf4926]

Remember mirrors will help you thru this
openSUSE Download Mirrors - Overview

[Dwarfer99]

I did this:

As su in a console
cd /usr/lib/browser-plugins/
mv libflashplayer.so libflashplayer.so-old
ln -s /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so ./libflashplayer.so

I spent a happy period of time trying to get flash working via RPMs and tar files. In the end the old truth of 'If at first you don't succeed - read the instructions' came home to me. The RPM install was working fine but I had missed the link instruction (last line above) After that it was firing on all cylinders.

[MattDobson]

Post result of

rpm -qi flash-player

here you go:

Name : flash-player Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 10.0.32.18 Vendor: openSUSE
Release : 0.1.1 Build Date: Fri 31 Jul 2009 08:40:46 PM NZST
Install Date: Fri 11 Sep 2009 11:49:44 AM NZST Build Host: deacon
Group : Productivity/Networking/Web/Browsers Source RPM: flash-player-10.0.32.18-0.1.1.src.rpm
Size : 19893279 License: Any commercial
Signature : RSA/8, Fri 31 Jul 2009 08:41:00 PM NZST, Key ID b88b2fd43dbdc284
Packager : http://bugs.opensuse.org
Summary : Adobe Flash PlugIn and standalone Player
Description :
This package contains Adobe's Flash Plugin for the supported Web
browsers in addition to a standalone flash player application.



Authors:
--------
Adobe Systems Incorporated
Distribution: openSUSE 11.1

[chief_sealth]

I did this:

As su in a console
cd /usr/lib/browser-plugins/
mv libflashplayer.so libflashplayer.so-old
ln -s /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so ./libflashplayer.so

I don't have a "/usr/lib/flash-plugin" directory. Will you double-check that? Your link file might be orphaned.

[MattDobson]

I have removed libflashsupport, what do I do now?