No Flash, Firefox 2.0.3 AMD64

[delta charlie]

Hi all, I'm having trouble getting flash to work on my Mandriva Spring 2007. It's a fresh install on an AMD 64 and I have GNOME with Firefox 2.0.0.3.

 

First I tried downloading the Adobe Flash player from:

http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/do...=ShockwaveFlash

 

And tried to install it using:

rpm -Uvh flash-plug in-9.0.31.0-release.i386.rpm

There were no errors shown in the terminal.

 

I tried to use Firefox but flash was not working so I ran some searches and found some postings on the need to copy the libflashplayer.so* to

/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins

 

I did that but still no Flash. After some more searches I found mention of libflashplayer.so* being the wrong version in: flash-plugin-9.0.31.0-release.i386.rpm

 

Comparing the download from Adobe against one I found in the post I do get a different file size and date:

[root@none dc]# rpm -qplv *.rpm | fgrep .so

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7029784 Mar 7 14:47 /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7040080 Dec 8 18:12 /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so

 

 

So I tried to install the newer one but still no flash.

 

after running rpm -ivh flash-plugin-9.0.31.0-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm I had these two files located in:

/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins.

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 856 Dec 15 16:51 flashplayer.xpt*

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7029784 Mar 7 14:47 libflashplayer.so*

 

(Note - the flash-plugin-9.0.31.0-release.i386.rpm did not install the .xpt file, it was there only after the second try on flash-plugin-9.0.31.0-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm)

 

Then I tried to copy them to:

/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 856 May 20 11:32 flashplayer.xpt*

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7029784 May 20 11:32 libflashplayer.so*

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 191 Mar 24 19:41 libtotem-basic-plugin.xpt

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3251 Mar 24 19:41 libtotem-complex-plugin.xpt

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4504 Mar 24 19:41 libtotem-gmp-plugin.xpt

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 191 Mar 24 19:41 libtotem-mully-plugin.xpt

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2235 Mar 24 19:41 libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.xpt

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 279168 Feb 19 13:34 mplayerplug-in-dvx.so*

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1021 Feb 19 13:34 mplayerplug-in-dvx.xpt*

 

Must be the right place as there are other plugins there that are working.

 

Still no flash.

 

So I tried to erase the newer plug in and was hoping to try re-installing the one I got from Adobe.

 

[root@none dc]# rpm -e flash-plugin-9.0.31.0-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

error: package flash-plugin-9.0.31.0-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm is not installed

[root@none dc]# rpm -ivh flash-plugin-9.0.31.0-release.i386.rpm

Preparing... ########################################### [100%]

package flash-plugin-9.0.31.0-1.el5.rf (which is newer than flash-plugin-9.0.31.0-release) is already installed

package flash-plugin-9.0.31.0-release is already installed

 

There seems to be a bit of confusion here ;-)

 

[root@none dc]# rpm -q *.rpm

package flash-plugin-9.0.31.0-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm is not installed

package flash-plugin-9.0.31.0-release.i386.rpm is not installed

[root@none dc]#

 

How do I un-install these two plug ins?

 

Thanks for any help, DC

 

 

[moved from Installing Mandriva by spinynorman]

[Guest Darryl Scroggins]

You might try rpm --rebuilddb just in case the rpm database is out of sync.

You also might try to remove the file by name only (without the version info) and see what happens.

ie. rpm -e flash-plugin

 

I have a dual core 64 bit AMD based machine at home so

I was researching this same problem a few months ago and everything I found indicated that the

only way to get Adobe flash to work was to run the 32 bit version of Firefox with the 32 bit plugin

(since there was no 64 but version of the plugin)

 

I didn't want to do that so I tried the open source plugin gnash and it seemed to work to some degree.

 

In the end I decided I didn't really need flash on that machine (keeps my kids off of it since they want flash)

[delta charlie]

Hi Darryl, thanks for the info. I was afraid it might be something like that. I will try a few more things and if I ever get it to work I will post a follow up.

 

Take care, DC

[Guest Sick Parasite]

you need to use nspluginwrapper for the 32 bit plugin to work on a 64-bit browser (It should already be installed w/2007 if itz not download it @ http://gwenole.beauchesne.info/projects/nspluginwrapper/ ).

 

Put libflashplayer.so in /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/

 

@ cammand prompt type:

 

nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

 

Done!

[delta charlie]

you need to use nspluginwrapper for the 32 bit plugin to work on a 64-bit browser (It should already be installed w/2007 if itz not download it @ http://gwenole.beauchesne.info/projects/nspluginwrapper/ ).

 

Put libflashplayer.so in /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/

 

@ cammand prompt type:

 

nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

 

Done!

 

Hi, thanks for the info. I tried running nspluginwrapper but still no joy.

 

[root@none plugins]# pwd

/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins

 

[root@none plugins]# ls -l

total 8624

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7040080 May 26 05:53 libflashplayer.so*

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 191 Mar 24 19:41 libtotem-basic-plugin.xpt

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3251 Mar 24 19:41 libtotem-complex-plugin.xpt

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4504 Mar 24 19:41 libtotem-gmp-plugin.xpt

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 191 Mar 24 19:41 libtotem-mully-plugin.xpt

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2235 Mar 24 19:41 libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.xpt

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 279168 Feb 19 13:34 mplayerplug-in-dvx.so*

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1021 Feb 19 13:34 mplayerplug-in-dvx.xpt*

 

 

[root@none plugins]# nspluginwrapper -i libflashplayer.so

*** NSPlugin Viewer *** ERROR: libflashplayer.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

nspluginwrapper: no appropriate viewer found for libflashplayer.so

[root@none plugins]#

 

 

Looks like I'm still missing something.

 

?

 

DC

[Guest olddogface2007]

Hi, thanks for the info. I tried running nspluginwrapper but still no joy.

 

[root@none plugins]# pwd

/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins

 

[root@none plugins]# ls -l

total 8624

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7040080 May 26 05:53 libflashplayer.so*

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 191 Mar 24 19:41 libtotem-basic-plugin.xpt

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3251 Mar 24 19:41 libtotem-complex-plugin.xpt

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4504 Mar 24 19:41 libtotem-gmp-plugin.xpt

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 191 Mar 24 19:41 libtotem-mully-plugin.xpt

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2235 Mar 24 19:41 libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.xpt

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 279168 Feb 19 13:34 mplayerplug-in-dvx.so*

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1021 Feb 19 13:34 mplayerplug-in-dvx.xpt*

[root@none plugins]# nspluginwrapper -i libflashplayer.so

*** NSPlugin Viewer *** ERROR: libflashplayer.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

nspluginwrapper: no appropriate viewer found for libflashplayer.so

[root@none plugins]#

Looks like I'm still missing something.

 

?This may not be of much help, I remember having to create a symbolic link in /opt/firefox/plugins back to where the plugin was

sorry, I dont remember the exactly linking command and the directory but I am sure that a google will help you. I found this but

it is with debian, check your install to see if it makes sense to do debian:/# cd /opt/firefox

debian:/# rm -R plugins

debian:/# ln -s /usr/lib/firefox/plugins /opt/firefox

the /opt/firefox/plugins is usually just an empty directory, haveing the link show should point to where the plugins are actually located

so treat this example as just that but it might give some insight with your plugin not being found.. hope this is helpful

 

 

DC

Edited May 26, 2007 by olddogface2007