Try copying the flashplayer file here also
/home/username/.mozilla/plugins
There may also be a plugin folder in the firefox profile. If you drill on down, have a look and copy the flashplayer there too.
The above are in hidden user section
Sorry, don’t know what you mean by hidden user section.
In /home/username/.mozilla there is no plugins folder. 
Similarly, if I drill-down into the /home/username/.mozilla/firefox folder there is no plugins folder.
So I don’t know where to copy the libflashplayer.so file.
I am using Firefox 3.5.2 for OpenSuSE 11.0
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090730 SUSE/3.5.2-1.1 Firefox/3.5.2
Thx
socref
create the folders
so it’s like this
.mozilla/plugins
.mozilla/firefox/3vbwf2j7.default/plugins
your firefox profile will be different
I should add, whilst I have the folders, flash is not in them. But I’m 32 bit.
Just give it a go, it can’t hurt
su is not needed here BTW
Frustrating to report, but still not working in either Firefox or Konqui despite copying libflashplayer.so into both folders I created per your suggestion. :\
socref
Is there something so incredibly basic to running Flash in SuSE 11.0, something so incredibly “noob” that I may have overlooked, or set-up wrong?
I hate to think that despite all your great suggestions the cause of my problem may be something I’ve done that nobody’s thought to ask me about because it is so basic. As we say here in the States: “dooh!” (Apologies to Homer Simpson)
socref
But you say it’s listed in the
about:plugins
And it shows ‘enabled’ there?
Yes, let me resummarize everything in one post:
Here is what shows in about:plugins
File name: libflashplayer.so
Shockwave Flash 10.0 r32
MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf Yes
application/futuresplash FutureSplash Player spl Yes
Here is what shows with: rpm -qa | grep flash
gil@phred:~> rpm -qa | grep flash
flash-player-9.0.246.0-0.1
libflashsupport-000-67.1
flash-plugin-10.0.32.18-release
gil@phred:~>
When in Firefox I try to play a flash video from the website I referenced in the opening post I get a still picture (like a screenshot) of the video superimposed with the words: “video available soon.” Clicking on the screen does nothing.
When in Konqui I try to play the same flash video I get a still picture (like a screen shot) superimposed with the words: “you need Adobe Flash Player version 9.0.115.” Clicking on the screen shot here (it’s a link) takes me to the Adobe site where I’m offered the chance to download and install the version that’s already installed (at least according to Firefox and the YaST package manager)!
However, while still in Konqui if I go to the Adobe site and check the Flashplayer version I get the following: LNX 9,0,246,0.
So Konqui viewing the Adobe website apparently reports a different version than Firefox, YaST package manager, and Opera when it views the Adobe website. Very strange.
When in Opera (which I do not use except in trying to figure out this problem) I try to play the same flash video from the website reference in the opening post it works!
So, Opera plays the flash videos but Firefox and Konqui do not.
In Firefox I can play flash videos from other websites such as cnn.com. However, those same cnn.com flash videos do not play in Konqui or Opera. Again, very strange.
I did not use the videolan repository except for the libdvdcss file.
I do have Packman enabled and regularly check for updates from there and also OSS, non-OSS, and Update. The other repositories are disabled per suggestions on this OpenSuSE Forum.
I am using 64 bit SuSE 11.0.
Firefox is: Firefox 3.5.2 for OpenSuSE 11.0
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090730 SUSE/3.5.2-1.1 Firefox/3.5.2
Konqui is: 3.5.9 (using KDE 3.5.9 “release 49.1” OpenSuSE 11.0)
I have copied libflashplayer.so into:
/usr/lib/browser-plugins
/usr/lib64/browser-plugins
/home/<myusername>/.mozilla/plugins
/home/<myusername>/.mozilla/firefox/<myprofile.default>/plugins
Is there anything else I can report to you?
Thanks.
socref
flash-player-9.0.246.0-0.1
Is this from the suse repo’s? It should have been removed.
The instruction here: Flash Player 10 on 11.1 - Page 3 - openSUSE Forums
said
- Remove all installed flash related packages in YaST software management.
Did you do that?
Yes, on August 25th. I removed everything “flash” – flash-player, libflashsupport, and flash-plugin. But, as I posted that day, the instructions are not clear as what to do next.
After deleting the files I still could not play the videos in Firefox or Konqui. And having removed the three files Opera no longer played the videos. So I assumed (?) that I had to reinstall some version of flash-player and the flashplayer plug-in. I installed again using YaST on the assumption (?) that I’d get the latest versions. Doing that did get back Opera, but not Firefox or Konqui.
I tried with and without libflashsupport. Made no difference.
All three files are now removed once again, and still I cannot play the videos on the referenced website. That holds true for all three browsers.
Interestingly, with those three files removed via YaST, the videos on cnn.com do play in Firefox but not Konqui or Opera.
How they’re playing in Firefox with everything “flash” supposedly removed via YaST is another mystery. 
And I rechecked on the Adobe site and using Firefox it tells me that v 10.0.32.18 of flash player is installed. Where did that come from if I’ve supposedly removed everything “flash” using YaST?
My brain hurts!! :?
socref
Hi
Whenever manually removing libraries it pays to run ldconfig (normally
done via the rpm install/remove routine)
sudo /sbin/ldconfig
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Oh! I assumed (again, that word) that when YaST did its “clean-up” at the end of a package installation or removal all of those mentions of various “configs” displayed on the screen meant YaST was finishing the job.
So you’re saying to run ldconfig after any YaST install or uninstall?
OK, I just ran it per the code you supplied. Thanks!
Now, if only I could get Flash to work in Firefox and Konqui! rotfl!
socref
open Yast software management
search: flash
give us a screenshot of it
This has to be the “noob-iest” question ever. I don’t see anywhere to click to include an attachment such as the screenshot. How do I attach something to my reply?
Is there a button right in front of my nose?
Thx
socref
Lately I have been using: ImageBam - Fast, Free Image Hosting and Photo Sharing and then I post the URL here.
So what are you getting from this again:
rpm -qa | grep flash
With everything “flash” now removed from the YaST package manager I get:
gil@phred:~> rpm -qa | grep flash
gil@phred:~>
socref
Now check you have done this
Flash Player 10 on 11.1 - Page 3 - openSUSE Forums
And that the plugin has not been removed. You may need to re-do steps 3 and 4
The libflashplayer.so file was in:
/home/gil/.mozilla/plugins
/home/gil/firefox/<my profile>/plugins
/usr/lib64/browser-plugins
It was NOT in:
/usr/lib/browser-plugins
As super-user I copied it into /usr/lib/browser-plugins.
Made no difference. Still can’t play videos in either Firefox or Konqui.
Note: in step 4 of the instructions you point me to it talks about checking “add ons” in Firefox to see if the plugin is there. I assume this is a typo and the author really meant about:plugins.
If he really meant look in “add ons” then I have nothing there referencing flash. But that would only affect Firefox in any case, not Konqui.
Thx
socref