I tried to install the flash plugin for mozilla firefox on my suse 11.0 box and it doesn’t work. If I try to install again it says it is already installed. I tried to uninstall it and it says it’s not installed… Now what?
Flash works out of the box in Suse, well it always has for me.
Tell us if you are 32 or 64 bit
How are you installing???
Well I didn’t do the install as this is a shared computer but as far as I know it was installed from an opensuse11.0 install disk ( not sure if it was cd or dvd )and I went to a website and it said I needed to get the flash plugin so I did and used the rpm package and it said it installed but still would not run flash.
In a terminal type
rpm -qi flash-player
post results here
Not sure if I used both of those switches but I’ll try assuming the other guy has not gotten frustrated and installed something else… I won’t be there till Saturday…
<username>linux-4e9d:~> rpm -qi flash-player
package flash-player is not installed
<username>linux-4e9d:~>
su in terminal
zypper install flash-player
thank you oh wise penguin!! It seemed to do it now I’ll just have to try a flash site to see if it works…
well I went to google and searched for flash test and it says click here to get plug in… so it appears not to work still…
Open Firefox
Tools
Add-ons
Plugins
Is Shockwave Flash in there?
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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
thanks I think that last bit did it… I had to modify a bit as it was in /flash-plugin not /flash-player. It was also already in where you said to put it but it seems to work now that I copied over it…
Great.
We keep getting Flash problems from folk. I can’t understand it. It always just works for me.