Flashplayer and Firefox not working

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#1

Feel a little foolish as a newbie, but can’t get Flash player to work with Firefox, or even on it’s own. Running:

Linux 2.6.27.29-0.1-default x86_64
openSUSE 11.1 (x86_64)
4.1.3 (KDE 4.1.3) “release 4.10.4”
Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU E2160 @ 1.80GHz

I have used YaST to unsintall and reinstall several times. When I try an ldd, I get several missing libraries:
libplc4.so => not found
libplds4.so => not found
libnspr4.so => not found
libplc4.so => not found
libplds4.so => not found
libnspr4.so => not found
libplc4.so => not found
libplds4.so => not found
libnspr4.so => not found
libplc4.so => not found
libplds4.so => not found
libnspr4.so => not found

I found some of these in the /usr/lib64 directory and made symbolic links to both /usr/lib and /usr, but ldd still comes up with them as “not found”. Am I linking to the wrong location? Why is ldd not seeing them (I checked the directories and they are visible)?

I have also tried deleting the libflashplayersupport file, but also no change in satus.

#2

Please do this

rpm -qi nspluginwrapper

If it reports as not installed do this in a su terminal

zypper in nspluginwrapper
#3

Hi and welcome :slight_smile:
On 64bit systems there are generally equivalents called 32bit that
would be installed in your case it’s mozilla-nspr-32bit which
provides the libraries.

Now that being said, I would imagine that removing flashplayer and the
libflash library and installing the 64bit version of flash would help.

Have a look here;
http://forums.opensuse.org/applications/419032-flash-player-10-11-1-a-3.html#post2020113

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#4

Working now, or at least shows up in Tools menu and most videos seem OK :). Some come up with a rotating wait icon forever and don’t seem to start playing. Trying to find the common thread for the ones that won’t work.

#5

Possibly you need to:
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