Hello!
I am a routined (so, moderate) ubuntu-user, and I just wanted something else… So, I downloaded openSUSE KDE 4. However, my computer is to slow for KDE 4, so I downgraded to KDE 3. Everything works well (still a bit slow, but i don’t mind (yet) ).
But when I tried toe install Adobe Flash Player, i had a problem. My browser (firefox) doesn’t recognise my installation, although it is installed. Anyone who knows how I can fix that?
vespertilio wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> I am a routined (so, moderate) ubuntu-user, and I just wanted something
> else… So, I downloaded openSUSE KDE 4. However, my computer is to slow
> for KDE 4, so I downgraded to KDE 3. Everything works well (still a bit
> slow, but i don’t mind (yet) ).
>
> But when I tried toe install Adobe Flash Player, i had a problem. My
> browser (firefox) doesn’t recognise my installation, although it is
> installed. Anyone who knows how I can fix that?
>
>
use YaST software management to install ‘flash-player’.
L R Nix
lornix@lornix.com
the oS repos don’t contain the newest development release of flash player/plugin. they containt the latest stable release; 9.0, but not version 10, which is a big step up.
you can download a rpm package of it from here:
Adobe Labs - Downloads: Flash Player 10
(if you do want to install flash 10, then i recommend first uninstalling any flash player/plugin package you installed from the oS repos).
(you can leave flash-support installed).
echoes- wrote:
>
> the oS repos don’t contain the newest development release of flash
> player/plugin. they containt the latest stable release; 9.0, but not
> version 10, which is a big step up.
> you can download a rpm package of it from here:
> ‘Adobe Labs - Downloads: Flash Player 10’
> (http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html)
> (if you do want to install flash 10, then i recommend first
> uninstalling any flash player/plugin package you installed from the oS
> repos).
> (you can leave flash-support installed).
>
>
Hey! I didn’t know about v10… I’ll give it a try too!
If you’ve installed the rpm, the flash-player plugin is located
at /usr/lib/flash-player/libflashplayer.so
either copy the file from /usr/lib/flash-player into /usr/lib/browser-plugins:
cp /usr/lib/flash-player/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/browser-plugins
or symlink it:
ln -s /usr/lib/flash-player/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/browser-plugins/
you’ll need to be root to do this, and if you’re running 64bit Firefox, this
plugin MAY not work. The new npwrapper system would let it work, I haven’t
poked around that too much (yet)
Loni
tested on 32bit system: Works! hooray!
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L R Nix
lornix@lornix.com
The same thing happen to me. What i did to fix it was look at the online update. so open YaST > Online update > and make sure you click on patches. look at the patches/summary. you should find something with Firefox. hit Accept. then it should be working again. if not try restarting. then you should be good.
good luck man. i hope this help you
Now that version 10 is out I imagine that people will be searching for this. Great advice above. The only information I would add is to say that the above folders that were mentioned have changed. The command for the link should be
ln -s /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/browser-plugins/
After that, everything worked beautifully. My menus now display on top of the flash content below them.