OK this is starting to become complicated so please bear with me (and
thanks for everyone’s help so far!!). I have nspluginwrapper installed.
But just to be sure I tried updating it via YaST and then reinstalled it
anyways.
Current status of nspluginwrapper:
STARDRIVE:/ # RPM -QI NSPLUGINWRAPPER
NAME : NSPLUGINWRAPPER RELOCATIONS: (NOT
RELOCATABLE)
VERSION : 0.9.91.4 VENDOR: SUSE LINUX
PRODUCTS GMBH, NUERNBERG, GERMANY
RELEASE : 58.1 BUILD DATE: MON JUN 23
16:25:14 2008
INSTALL DATE: FRI FEB 13 00:35:57 2009 BUILD HOST: AGUIRRE.SUSE.DE
GROUP : PRODUCTIVITY/NETWORKING/WEB/UTILITIES SOURCE RPM:
NSPLUGINWRAPPER-0.9.91.4-58.1.SRC.RPM
SIZE : 269956 LICENSE: GPL V2 OR LATER
SIGNATURE : DSA/SHA1, MON JUN 23 16:35:47 2008, KEY ID
A84EDAE89C800ACA
PACKAGER : ‘SUBMITTING BUG REPORTS - OPENSUSE’
(HTTP://BUGS.OPENSUSE.ORG)
URL : ‘NSPLUGINWRAPPER [WEB > GWENOLE BEAUCHESNE]’
(HTTP://GWENOLE.BEAUCHESNE.INFO/PROJECTS/NSPLUGINWRAPPER/)
SUMMARY : COMPATIBILITY LAYER FOR NETSCAPE 4 PLUG-INS
DESCRIPTION :
NSPLUGINWRAPPER IS AN OPEN SOURCE COMPATIBILITY PLUGIN FOR NETSCAPE 4
(NPAPI) PLUGINS. IT ENABLES YOU TO USE PLUGINS ON PLATFORMS THEY WERE
NOT BUILT FOR. FOR EXAMPLE, YOU CAN USE THE PLUGINS COMPILED FOR I386
IN MOZILLA ON LINUX/X86_64 OR OTHER ARCHITECTURES. THIS PACKAGE
CONSISTS OF:
-
NPVIEWER: THE PLUG-IN VIEWER
-
NPWRAPPER.SO: THE BROWSER-SIDE PLUG-IN
-
NSPLUGINWRAPPER: A TOOL TO MANAGE PLUG-INS INSTALLATION AND UPDATE
AUTHORS:
GWENOLE BEAUCHESNE <GB.PUBLIC@FREE.FR>
DISTRIBUTION: OPENSUSE 10.3 (X86-64)
So that must be my system’s fancy way of saying it’s installed.
Next I noticed under YaST that there are 2 entries that come up (well
actually more than that) when doing a repository search for “flash”:
FLASH-PLUGIN - ADOBE FLASH PLAYER 10.0
ADOBE FLASH PLUGIN 10.0.15.3 FULLY SUPPORTED: MOZILLA SEAMONKEY 1.0+,
FIREFOX 1.5+, MOZILLA 1.7.13+
‘ADOBE - DOWNLOADS’ (HTTP://WWW.ADOBE.COM/DOWNLOADS/)
FLASH-PLAYER - MACROMEDIA FLASH PLUG-IN
THIS PACKAGE CONTAINS MACROMEDIA’S FLASH PLUG-IN FOR THE SUPPORTED WEB
BROWSERS. THIS INCLUDES NETSCAPE6, MOZILLA (ALL GECKO BROWSERS), AND
KONQUEROR. VERSION 9.0.152.0-0.1
This must be the confusion for flash-player vs flash-plugin. When I
started trying to fix this problem I originally had them both installed.
I’m assuming the one we want here is flash-plug because 1) that has the
latest version, and 2) the website matches the one in one of your
replies and threads above, and the file I end up downloading from
Adobe’s website is called “flash-plugin-10.0.15.3-release.i386.rpm”.
So here’s what I did:
- closed all browser windows
- uninstalled both flash-player and flash-plugin
- uninstalled and reinstalled nspluginwrapper
- installed flash-plugin-10.0.15.3-release.i386.rpm by right-clicking
and selecting “open with install software”
- Went to command prompt, did the “sudo cp
/usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/browser-plugins/”
- Checked both folders. Made sure that the files in both folders are
there. Here they are:
*stardrive:/usr/lib/flash-plugin # ls -l
total 9852
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 34516 Nov 18 17:52 LICENSE
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 3180 Nov 18 17:52 README
-rwxr–r-- 1 root root 1367 Nov 18 17:52 homecleanup
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10022452 Nov 18 17:53 libflashplayer.so
-rwxr–r-- 1 root root 3116 Nov 18 17:52 setup
stardrive:/usr/lib/browser-plugins # ls -l
total 9804
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Nov 11 2007 javaplugin.so ->
/etc/alternatives/javaplugin
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10022452 Feb 13 00:37 libflashplayer.so
*
6. As one final sanity check did a:
*stardrive:/usr/lib/browser-plugins # rpm -qi flash-plugin
Name : flash-plugin Relocations: (not
relocatable)
Version : 10.0.15.3 Vendor: Adobe Systems
Inc.
Release : release Build Date: Tue Nov 18
17:54:02 2008
Install Date: Fri Feb 13 00:34:07 2009 Build Host:
fplayerbuild4-lnx.labs.corp.adobe.com
Group : Applications/Internet Source RPM:
flash-plugin-10.0.15.3-release.src.rpm
Size : 10067811 License: Commercial
Signature : (none)
Packager : Adobe Systems Inc.
URL : ‘Adobe - Downloads’ (http://www.adobe.com/downloads/)
Summary : Adobe Flash Player 10.0
Description :
Adobe Flash Plugin 10.0.15.3
Fully Supported: Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.0+, Firefox 1.5+, Mozilla 1.7.13+
Distribution: (none)
*
Looks good?
Opened up a firefox window, went to youtube, made sure java and
javascript are both turned on, and got a:
“Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of
Adobe’s Flash Player. Get the latest Flash player.”
AAARRRGGGHHH!!!
fyi nspluginwrapper -l is supposed to list all the plugins currently
installed. The command returns empty. Should there be anything?
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