problems with flash on FC6

[Paul Osunero]

On 3/6/07, Akop Pogosian <akopps at ls.berkeley.edu> wrote:
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> On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 12:23:58AM -0800, oldman wrote:
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> > Akop Pogosian wrote:
> > > I am trying to install Shockwave Flash 9.0 r31 on my Linux desktops. I
> > > dropped the new libflashplayer.so and flashplayer.xpt files into
> > > /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. This worked fine only on CentOS 4 boxes.
> > > However, on Fedora Core 6, despite using the 32-bit version of
> > > Firefox, I don't see Flash Plugin when I visit about:plugins. Other
> > > plugins, such as Acrobat Reader, register just fine. Please let me
> > > know if I am doing anything wrong. Thanks.
> > >
> > >
> > > -akop
> > >
> > Default locations for Firefox are the plugins directory under
> > /usr/lib/firefox.<latestinstallversion> OR the plugins Directory under
> > $HOME/.mozilla (the difference is that (of course) the $HOME location is
> > only for you the other one will work for you root your spouse, whoever)
> >
> > It will possibly be easiest to make a soft link to your
> > libflashplayer.so via: (as root)
> > ln -s /usr/lib/firefox.1.0.0.10/plugins/libflashplayer.so\
> > /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
> >
> > that should be all one line (without the '\')
>
> I don't think this has to do with the location of plugins directory
> that I use. /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins is also searched for plugins, and as
> I already mentioned in my original message, other plugins that are in that
> directory do work. Also everything works fine on CentOS 4 machines this
> way.
> I think this problem is specific to flash plugin on Fedora Core 6.
>
>


Mabye you don't have the libraries?

http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2006/09/librarian.html

   - libdl.so.2
   - libpthread.so.0
   - libX11.so.6
   - libXext.so.6
   - libXt.so.6
   - libfreetype.so.6
   - libfontconfig.so.1
   - libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
   - libgobject-2.0.so.0
   - libglib-2.0.so.0
   - libm.so.6
   - libc.so.6
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