I’m running openSUSE 11.0
I was having trouble with Firefox and Flash 9 so I uninstalled Flash 9 and tried downloading and installing Flash 10. Firefox is not seeing Flash 10, even tho Yast says that it’s installed. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling both Firefox and Flash 10 but this hasn’t helped.
The last time I tried this:
-uninstalled Flash 10 using Yast
-downloaded the Flash plug-in again from the Flash site (flash-plugin-10.0.22.87-release.i386.rpm)
-installed from command line:
linux-pczd:/home/eric/Desktop/Downloads # rpm -Uvh flash-plugin-10.0.22.87-release.i386.rpm
error: failed to stat /home/eric/.gvfs: Permission denied
Preparing… ########################################### [100%]
1:flash-plugin ########################################### [100%]
Again, Yast tells me the plugin is installed. command line tells me it’s not installed; Firefox does not see it.
I don’t understand the "failed to stat /home/eric/.gvfs. I’ve already tried to uninstall and reinstall gvfs.
from a su terminal
zypper in flash-player
will install it and assuming you have your update repo active you will get flash 10
FYI:If you go the way you were asking Your rpm install needs to be done from su too. And if you removed the older version it should be -ihv not -Uhv
not only what caf4926 said, you also need to run SuSEconfig & ldconfig ( as root ) in the console.
man SuSEconfig & man ldconfig explain why
Andy
Thanks for the suggestions.
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zypper installed Flash 9 rather than 10. I wanted 10 because I thought I saw on the web that 10 had solved the Flash-Firefox problems (in my case Flash takes over the screen, blocking what’s behind, and then freezes and can’t be closed).
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There seems to be no “Idconfig” command in my system. I did run SuSEconfig.
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Firefox still did not see Flash–ie, when I go to YouTube site, I’m warned that I don’t have Flash and am prompted to get the latest version. This takes me back where I’ve been several times.
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I tried with the .tar.gz download option and couldn’t get beyond the request to enter the installation path for firefox. /usr/lib/firefox wasn’t acceptable and none of the other seemingly likely alternatives that “find” came up with were acceptable either.
Thanks
You update everything to latest from the appropriate repositories and you will get firefox 3.0.11 with flash 10.0.22.87.
Don’t manually download and install stuff unless you can update all configuration files properly.
Well, I tried that–I had started with trying to reinstall Firefox and Flash; this time Yast only offered me Flash 9. It’s working, but I’m back at the same problem I was at 3 hours ago: Flash 9 doesn’t seem to work right with Firefox. On some pages it blocks the dropdown menus and won’t close. On others, when a video opens it blocks the rest of the page and won’t close. That’s why I thought I needed to go to Flash 10.
linux-pczd:~ # zypper lr --details
| Alias | Name | Enabled | Refresh | Priority | Type | URI
–±----------------------±----------------------±--------±--------±---------±-------±------------------------------------------------------------
1 | openSUSE-11.0-Updates | openSUSE-11.0-Updates | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /update/11.0
2 | repo-debug | openSUSE-11.0-Debug | No | No | 120 | NONE | Index of /distribution/11.0/repo/debug
3 | VideoLAN | VideoLAN | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /pub/videolan/vlc/SuSE/11.0/
4 | openSUSE-DVD 11.0 | openSUSE-DVD 11.0 | Yes | No | 99 | yast2 | cd:///?devices=/dev/sr0
5 | repo-oss | openSUSE-11.0-Oss | Yes | No | 120 | yast2 | Index of /distribution/11.0/repo/oss
6 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-11.0-Non-Oss | Yes | No | 120 | yast2 | Index of /distribution/11.0/repo/non-oss
You need to change the priority in the update repo to 20
Go to Yast - Software - Repositories
Highlight Updates
See the two check boxes for enable and refresh, make sure they both stay checked and change the priority number to 20
accept/save
then do from a su terminal:
zypper ref
then
zypper up flash-player
you might want to do a full
zypper up
later when you have time, it could be big
Thanks. “Detail” repo now has priority of 20. Results are “Curiouser and curiouser.”
zypper can’t seem to make up its mind about whether Flash-player is installed and doesn’t seem consistent with Yast:
linux-pczd:~ # zypper if flash-player
Reading installed packages…
Information for package flash-player:
Repository: openSUSE-11.0-Updates
Name: flash-player
Version: 9.0.159.0-0.1
Arch: i586
Vendor: SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany
Installed: Yes
Status: up-to-date
Installed Size: 15.4 M
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.
linux-pczd:~ # zypper ref
Repository ‘openSUSE-11.0-Updates’ is up to date.
Repository ‘VideoLAN’ is up to date.
Repository ‘openSUSE-11.0-Oss’ is up to date.
Repository ‘openSUSE-11.0-Non-Oss’ is up to date.
All repositories have been refreshed.
linux-pczd:~ # zypper up flash-player
Reading installed packages…
Package ‘flash-player’ is not installed.
Nothing to do.
Give me this again
zypper lr --details
You said some odd things:
“Detail” repo
1 | openSUSE-11.0-Updates | openSUSE-11.0-Updates | Yes | Yes | **20 ** | rpm-md | Index of /update/11.0
2 | repo-debug | openSUSE-11.0-Debug | No | No | 120 | NONE | Index of /distribution/11.0/repo/debug
3 | VideoLAN | VideoLAN | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /pub/videolan/vlc/SuSE/11.0/
4 | openSUSE-DVD 11.0 | openSUSE-DVD 11.0 | No | No | 99 | yast2 | cd:///?devices=/dev/sr0
5 | repo-oss | openSUSE-11.0-Oss | Yes | No | 120 | yast2 | Index of /distribution/11.0/repo/oss
6 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-11.0-Non-Oss | Yes | No | 120 | yast2 | Index of /distribution/11.0/repo/non-oss
Like this
Sorry–brain crash. I mean “Update” repo is now priority 20.
I tried “zypper in flash-player” and also (again) “zypper up flash-player”. These results:
[CODElinux-pczd:~ # zypper lr --details
| Alias | Name | Enabled | Refresh | Priority | Type | URI
–±----------------------±----------------------±--------±--------±---------±-------±------------------------------------------------------------
1 | openSUSE-11.0-Updates | openSUSE-11.0-Updates | Yes | Yes | 20 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.0/
2 | repo-debug | openSUSE-11.0-Debug | No | No | 120 | NONE | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.0/repo/debug/
3 | VideoLAN | VideoLAN | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/SuSE/11.0
4 | openSUSE-DVD 11.0 | openSUSE-DVD 11.0 | Yes | No | 99 | yast2 | cd:///?devices=/dev/sr0
5 | repo-oss | openSUSE-11.0-Oss | Yes | No | 120 | yast2 | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.0/repo/oss/
6 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-11.0-Non-Oss | Yes | No | 120 | yast2 | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.0/repo/non-oss/
linux-pczd:~ # zypper in flash-player
Reading installed packages…
‘flash-player’ is already installed.
Nothing to do.
linux-pczd:~ # zypper up flash-player
Reading installed packages…
Package ‘flash-player’ is not installed.
Nothing to do.
linux-pczd:~ # man zypper
linux-pczd:~ # zypper if flash-player
Reading installed packages…
Information for package flash-player:
Repository: openSUSE-11.0-Updates
Name: flash-player
Version: 9.0.159.0-0.1
Arch: i586
Vendor: SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany
Installed: Yes
Status: up-to-date
Installed Size: 15.4 M
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.
]
Open Yast - Software Management
find flash-player
What version is showing there. Is it showing in Black, Red or Blue text.
Maybe delete it.
Close software management
open it again
and try installing again from here.
I’m thinking there may be some remnants of an old manual .rpm install causing issue
It’s in black (bold).
I’ll try delete etc as you suggest.
Thanks.
You didn’t disable the DVD like I showed you
1 | openSUSE-11.0-Updates | openSUSE-11.0-Updates | Yes | Yes | **20 ** | rpm-md | Index of /update/11.0
2 | repo-debug | openSUSE-11.0-Debug | No | No | 120 | NONE | Index of /distribution/11.0/repo/debug
3 | VideoLAN | VideoLAN | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /pub/videolan/vlc/SuSE/11.0/
4 | openSUSE-DVD 11.0 | openSUSE-DVD 11.0 | No | No | 99 | yast2 | cd:///?devices=/dev/sr0
5 | repo-oss | openSUSE-11.0-Oss | Yes | No | 120 | yast2 | Index of /distribution/11.0/repo/oss
6 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-11.0-Non-Oss | Yes | No | 120 | yast2 | Index of /distribution/11.0/repo/non-oss
You’ve not actually been running with the DVD in have you?
I’m hitting the sack now.
Sorry–I didn’t pick up that you were indicating any changes regarding the DVD repo. I’ll do that. I haven’t had the DVD in while doing all this.
Sleep well. Thanks for the help.
Some progress. In steps I got to
9.0.124.0-10.1
9.0.152.0-0.1
9.0.159.0-0.1
But still no 10…
Ayway, enough on this. I hadn’t wanted to spend hours. I just thought if I followed my browser’s prompting and installed 10… I could get rid of an annoyance.
Thanks again.