Guest JeetNayan Posted January 20, 2010 Report Share Posted January 20, 2010 Hello, I am using a Mandriva 2008 on my machine... now i updated the firefox browser to the latest version i.e. 3.5.7 and i tried to install Adobe Flash player 10 directly from the net... but it is giving me an error "Installation of Plugin Failed !" so i tried to manually install it by downloading "install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz" from their site. But this contains something called "libflashplayer.so" which i don't know how to work with... Kindky advise on how should i get this one manually installed... Please Help, Thnaks in advance, JN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted January 20, 2010 Report Share Posted January 20, 2010 If you have a folder /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins, drop it in there (requires root priviledges). Firefox should see it automatically. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted January 20, 2010 Report Share Posted January 20, 2010 (edited) My "libflashplayer.so" is located in /home/username/.mozilla/plugins Edited January 20, 2010 by daniewicz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted January 20, 2010 Report Share Posted January 20, 2010 /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins are plugins installed system-wide. /home/username/.mozilla/plugins are those installed just for specific user in addition to those already seen system-wide. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demonseth17 Posted June 14, 2010 Report Share Posted June 14, 2010 (edited) /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins are plugins installed system-wide. /home/username/.mozilla/plugins are those installed just for specific user in addition to those already seen system-wide. Hey , I tried using the solution explained here, I even tried using the lib on both folders, but flash still not working... any other idea of what could be wrong?, also I restarted firefox Edited June 14, 2010 by demonseth17 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boatman9 Posted June 15, 2010 Report Share Posted June 15, 2010 (edited) ...flash still not working... Which version of Mandriva have you installed? I guess you installed one of Mandriva's free versions, otherwise you'd already have flash. There are at least two ways to get Flash Player. 1. Install the flash-player-plugin package, it's in the PLF Non-free repository. 2. As root run a program called 'download-flash-player-plugin'. In case your media sources are not well configured then you may want to try the below script. The script will enable PLF free and Non-free, Main and Main updates, Contrib and Contrib updates, Non-free and Non-free updates. # initialize.sh # To see which media are active # urpmq --list-media active # reinitialize urpmi's setup urpmi.removemedia -a # add some repository media using commands from http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ urpmi.addmedia --distrib --mirrorlist 'http://plf.zarb.org/mirrors/$RELEASE.$ARCH.list' urpmi.addmedia --distrib --mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST' # activate "Non-free" and "Non-free Updates" urpmi.update --no-ignore Non-free 'Non-free Updates' urpmi.update -v Non-free 'Non-free Updates' Edited June 15, 2010 by boatman9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demonseth17 Posted June 16, 2010 Report Share Posted June 16, 2010 [rr@localhost Download]$ firefox --version Mozilla Firefox 3.6.3, Copyright © 1998 - 2010 mozilla.org yeah flash suppose to be working but it isn't it gives me a black screen on every video...that's why I tried to install it again.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boatman9 Posted June 16, 2010 Report Share Posted June 16, 2010 Have you tried download-flash-player-plugin or anything else I suggested above? What was the result? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demonseth17 Posted June 19, 2010 Report Share Posted June 19, 2010 Have you tried download-flash-player-plugin or anything else I suggested above? What was the result? yes I did, I also downloaded faad2, libfaad2, gstreamer01-faad (something like that), helped a little because now the video starts when it wants what I mean is not every video opens, sometimes when I want to watch a video it won't open at all, but other videos will... ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boatman9 Posted June 19, 2010 Report Share Posted June 19, 2010 If you post a link to a video that does not work for you, I or someone else may be able to tell you what's needed to play it. I think it helps to have the package codeina installed. I guess the PLF version is likely to be best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demonseth17 Posted June 23, 2010 Report Share Posted June 23, 2010 If you post a link to a video that does not work for you, I or someone else may be able to tell you what's needed to play it. I think it helps to have the package codeina installed. I guess the PLF version is likely to be best. well I have the plf version, and I stopped working w/ firefox and started using epiphany, the flash player runs smooth and it also runs really good on CentOS [Virtualbox]...it has firefox 3.0.x instead of 3.6x, I installed the plugin and it's working fine, what I'll do is downgrade firefox or use either centos or epiphany in linux... but thx anyway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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