Folks,
Does Flash with Firefox wotk on Open Suse? I downloaded the RPM from the Adobe web site, the package manager said it installed it, I rebooted Firefox, but it still says it’s not installed.
With Mandrake/Mandriva/Mageia which I’ve always used in the past it just worked once I’d downloaded and installed the rpm. Is there something else I have to do or does suse just not support Flash from Adobe?
Thanks!
You don’t need to download it
It’s available in the official repos
If your system is fully updated since install, it should be already installed
You can install flash from the non-oss repository. I assure you it works. Remove the flash rpm you installed and try:
su -
zypper in flash-player
I followed the above instruction, but still get “The Adobe Flash Player is required for video playback. Get the latest Flash Player” when on Youtube. I followed the link and sure enough the version they want me to download is the one already installed. So I double checked with…
# zypper up
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
The following package updates will NOT be installed:
gstreamer gstreamer-0_10 gstreamer-0_10-plugin-gnomevfs gstreamer-0_10-plugins-base
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good gstreamer-plugins-base k3b libgstapp-0_10-0 libgstapp-0_10-0-32bit
libgstapp-1_0-0 libgstaudio-1_0-0 libgstinterfaces-0_10-0 libgstpbutils-1_0-0
libgstreamer-0_10-0 libgstreamer-0_10-0-32bit libgstreamer-1_0-0 libgstriff-1_0-0
libgsttag-1_0-0 libgstvideo-1_0-0 libmjpegutils-2_0-0 libquicktime0 libsox2 libstrigi0 libxine2
libxine2-pulse mjpegtools sox strigi
Nothing to do.
# zypper in flash-player
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Resolving package dependencies...
Nothing to do.
# zypper if flash-player
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Information for package flash-player:
Repository: openSUSE-12.3-Update-Non-Oss
Name: flash-player
Version: 11.2.202.275-2.12.1
Arch: i586
Vendor: openSUSE
Installed: Yes
Status: up-to-date
Installed Size: 31.4 MiB
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.
Any suggestions?
On Wed 20 Mar 2013 03:46:01 AM CDT, ionmich wrote:
nightwishfan;2524317 Wrote:
> You can install flash from the non-oss repository. I assure you it
> works. Remove the flash rpm you installed and try:
>
> >
Code:> > su -
> zypper in flash-player> >
I followed the above instruction, but still get “The Adobe Flash Player
is required for video playback. Get the latest Flash Player” when on
Youtube. I followed the link and sure enough the version they want me to
download is the one already installed. So I double checked with…
zypper up
Loading repository data…
Reading installed packages…
The following package updates will NOT be installed:
gstreamer gstreamer-0_10 gstreamer-0_10-plugin-gnomevfs
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-base
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good gstreamer-plugins-base k3b
libgstapp-0_10-0 libgstapp-0_10-0-32bit
libgstapp-1_0-0 libgstaudio-1_0-0 libgstinterfaces-0_10-0
libgstpbutils-1_0-0
libgstreamer-0_10-0 libgstreamer-0_10-0-32bit libgstreamer-1_0-0
libgstriff-1_0-0
libgsttag-1_0-0 libgstvideo-1_0-0 libmjpegutils-2_0-0 libquicktime0
libsox2 libstrigi0 libxine2
libxine2-pulse mjpegtools sox strigi
Nothing to do.
zypper in flash-player
Loading repository data…
Reading installed packages…
Resolving package dependencies…
Nothing to do.
zypper if flash-player
Loading repository data…
Reading installed packages…
Information for package flash-player:
Repository: openSUSE-12.3-Update-Non-Oss
Name: flash-player
Version: 11.2.202.275-2.12.1
Arch: i586
Vendor: openSUSE
Installed: Yes
Status: up-to-date
Installed Size: 31.4 MiB
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.
Any suggestions?
Hi
Since it’s youtube, switch to html5?
http://www.youtube.com/html5
Click on the link down the bottom to join the trial…
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openSUSE 12.3 (x86_64) Kernel 3.7.10-1.1-desktop
up 2 days 7:28, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.10, 0.15
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Try installing Google Chrome
You have to download it, then just click to install it. Be careful you get the correct file
It is working for me.
Are you using “noscript” with firefox? If you are, then by default it blocks flash from sites where you are not allowing scripting. I that case, I click the “temporarily allow scripting” for the flash source site, and then it usually works.
[QUOTE=malcolmlewis;2538303]Hi
Since it’s youtube, switch to html5?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
That made no difference.
So far this is the only solution, much as I dislike Google. Thanks for getting me a quick fix.
I should say though, I have no trouble with Firefox, chromium, opera, konqueror…
On 03/20/2013 04:46 AM, ionmich wrote:
> “The Adobe Flash Player
> is required for video playback. Get the latest Flash Player”
sometimes, some browsers make that complaint when Flash is available
but javascript has been turned off (and so the javascript can’t, in
the background, make Flash available to the browser)…
try enabling javascript (or somehow adjusting the NoScript [or
similar] add-on)
let us know if that helps!
On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 05:06:02 +0000, ionmich wrote:
> caf4926;2538304 Wrote:
>> Try installing Google Chrome
>> You have to download it, then just click to install it. Be careful you
>> get the correct file
>
> So far this is the only solution, much as I dislike Google. Thanks for
> getting me a quick fix.
With Flash and Fireox there is a known Adobe site hiccup where it will
try to load flash player again and again. What is really needed is the
plugin which is not installed with the player, try this link:
http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html#fp11
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On 03/28/2013 02:53 AM, Joseph wrote:
> With Flash and Fireox there is a known Adobe site hiccup where it will
> try to load flash player again and again. What is really needed is the
> plugin which is not installed with the player, try this link:
>
> http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html#fp11
hmmmmmmm…i see several packages available to Linux users on that
page…
are you saying the “Download the Linux Flash Player 11.2 Plugin
content debugger (TAR.GZ, 7.06MB)” will somehow fix (rather than just
debug) the “load flash player again and again” or the OP’s problem?
i can’t see how the extra debugger code could solve a problem in
itself…have you a URL or two to point to which expands on your claim?
–
dd
Perhaps related to
Youtube videos were no longer played.
A good workaround is to use HTML5 instead that can be enabled at
It is appearently used by default for other popular browsers such as Chrome
(by Google that owns YouTube).