Flash Player Issue

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For some reason the Adobe Flash Player is not installed properly on my openSuse 11.3 64-bit OS. When I navigate to the Adobe Flash Player page, Find Flash Player version, it says that I have LNX 10,3,162,29. However, when I look in YAST, it claims I have version 11.0.1.152-61.1-x86-64 installed.

Which then brings me to another question, which Adobe Flash Player should I be installing?

There are several choices:

1- YAST -> flash-player
2- Linux RPM from the Adobe web site (latest version)
3- YAST -> flash-player-gnome
4- YAST -> flash-player-kde4 (I am running KDE 4 on this computer)

And how do I correct the issue where the Adobe web site says I have version 10.3, while YAST says 11.1?

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Have you added the flash repo?

zypper lr -d

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Also post the result of

ls /usr/lib/browser-plugins/

and

ls /usr/lib64/browser-plugins/

rpm -qa flash-player
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I do not have a specific repo for the flash-player. Where would I find it?

Here’s the output you requested;

ls /usr/lib/browser-plugins/

nothing

ls /usr/lib64/browser-plugins/

javaplugin.so libflashplayer.so libswfdecmozilla.la libswfdecmozilla.so npwrapper.so packagekit-plugin.so skypebuttons.so

rpm -qa flash-player

flash-player-11.0.1.152-61.1.x86_64

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ahh … have a little faith ! :slight_smile:

scroll down further on that page, … the top part which you quote gives the wrong version. I get something similar. BUT if you scroll down further, you probably will see something like " your flash player version 11,0,1,152 " which is what I see toward the bottom of the page ! [your flash version my be different from mine as I do not use the rpm method to update flash].

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You didn’t post your repo list

flash plugin is there as is the rpm info
So you must have installed a .rpm

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Repo list:

zypper lr -d

| Alias | Name | Enabled | Refresh | Priority | Type | URI | Service

—±------------------------------------±------------------------------------±--------±--------±---------±-------±-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------±-------
1 | Updates for openSUSE 11.3 11.3-1.82 | Updates for openSUSE 11.3 11.3-1.82 | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /update/11.3 |
2 | devel:tools:building | devel:tools:building | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /repositories/devel:/tools:/building/openSUSE_11.3 |
3 | multimedia:apps | multimedia:apps | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /repositories/multimedia:/apps/openSUSE_11.3 |
4 | multimedia:libs | multimedia:libs | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /repositories/multimedia:/libs/openSUSE_11.3 |
5 | openSUSE-11.3 11.3-1.82 | openSUSE-11.3 11.3-1.82 | Yes | No | 99 | yast2 | cd:///?devices=/dev/sr0 |
6 | openSUSE:Factory:Contrib | openSUSE:Factory:Contrib | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /repositories/openSUSE:/Factory:/Contrib/openSUSE_11.3 |
7 | repo-debug | openSUSE-11.3-Debug | No | Yes | 99 | NONE | Index of /debug/distribution/11.3/repo/oss |
8 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-11.3-Non-Oss | Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | Index of /distribution/11.3/repo/non-oss |
9 | repo-oss | openSUSE-11.3-Oss | Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | Index of /distribution/11.3/repo/oss |
10 | repo-source | openSUSE-11.3-Source | No | Yes | 99 | NONE | Index of /source/distribution/11.3/repo/oss |
11 | server:monitoring:opennms | server:monitoring:opennms | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /repositories/server:/monitoring:/opennms/openSUSE_11.3 |

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It appears I am now able to view Flash Videos on You Tube, etc.

Oddly enough it’s still saying I have the old version even though I have explicitly uninstalled the RPM version and reinstalled the one in YAST. Maybe there’s a file sticking around that I need to remove?

You have version 10,3,162,29 installed

Adobe - Flash Player

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Your version 11 flash player is from repo number 3 in that list

I’m installing flash manually. I don’t have any problem at youtube as you describe.

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On 2011-10-17 06:46, imterpsfan2 wrote:
> Repo list:

Next time, use code tags to post such things. Advanced editor, # button.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)

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Thanks for the replies. The issue is no longer whether I am able to view Flash, such as YouTube videos(Iron Linux yes, Firefox no). The issue is why the Adobe site claims I am running 10.3 when I have 11.1 installed in YAST.

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Try removing the Yast flash-player and the pullin

Download this:
Adobe - Download Adobe Flash Player
Extract the archive and get ONLY the file: libflashplayer.so
and put it in /usr/lib64/browser-plugins

If you are working from the dir where the file has been extracted to - do this:

su
mv libflashplayer.so /usr/lib64/browser-plugins

Make sure FFox is closed whilst doing this
Once done test FFox again
What happens

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Unfortunately after doing that it still says I have version 10.3.

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The other peculiar issue is that Firefox always crashes when I go to the Find Flash Player Version page. If I use the Iron Linux, then I at least get the version information.

15

Another observation: Flash works fine on the Iron Linux and does not on Firefox.

So right now, I’m going to stick with the Iron Linux browser. I really like it. However, I would like to get to the bottom of why I can’t seem to install the latest Flash Player.

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Did you test this with a new .mozilla folder?
You know you can rename .mozilla temporarily to say .mozilla-temp
Start FFox and test flash in a clean unadulterated browser
What I am wondering is if you have some plugins in the .mozilla/firefox somewhere

When done, you can delete the newly created .mozilla and rename your -temp back

report here

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I did that and it didn’t help. Firefox immediately crashes when I go to the Adoble Flash Player version page. Maybe I need to uninstall Firefox, delete the .mozilla folder, and then resintall Firefox?

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I find it strange that you are not running Packman repo? Though that would account for this.
Re-installing firefox isn’t likely to make one iota of difference IMO.

I do feel there is some confusion on your part about where flash-player is coming from

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Actually uninstalling Firefox, deleting the .mozilla folders in both my regular account and in root, deleting a mozilla and firefox folder in other places, such as usr/share and usr/local set my Flashplayer back to the 11.1 version, which is most current. I am no longer running Firefox. But in the other browser, Iron Linux, I see that the Flashplayer Version is the latest. I am not sure of all the places I deleted folders, but this seemed to work! Merely uninstalling Firefox doesn’t remove everything.

I exported all of my Firefox bookmarks and then imported them into the Iron Linux.

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I do understand where Flashplayer is coming from, it’s in /usr/lib64/browser-plugins. But it seems as if the .mozilla folder cached an older version of Flashplayer and it was somehow overriding the main one?