Can't get flash-plugin working in FF3 ??

William Case billlinux at rogers.com
Sat Jun 21 16:19:00 UTC 2008


Thanks Chris;


On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 09:56 -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 11:43 -0400, William Case wrote:
> > Hi;
> > 
> > The subject of media has been something I have avoided, so I am a newbie
> > at understanding what I might be doing wrong.
> > 
> > I am running F9 -x86_64 and FireFox3.  Yum shows me flash-plugin (Adobe
> > Flash Plugin 9.0.124.0 arch i386) is installed.  Firefox 'about:plugin'
> > shows me flash-plugin is NOT installed.  After download and installation
> > I re-booted just to sure and no joy.
> > 
> > What could I be doing wrong? Where should I look?  Is there an arch
> > mis-match?
> > 
> > Dumb question: Is there a Linux substitute for Adobe Flash?
> 
> Indeed there are substitutes and alternatives, but IHMO / experience,
> none of them are as good as Flash 9.
> 
> The way I got this to work reliably on 64-bit F9 was to read and follow
> the instructions on Section 10.5.1 of the F9 Release Notes. You can even
> copy / paste the specific commands to complete the task if you like.
> 
> For the sake of convenience, the F9 US English Release Notes are found
> at:
> 
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f9/en_US/
> 
> Hope that helps!
> 

Worked like a charm.  Don't know why I didn't think of going to the
release notes.  I guess I just assumed Flash should automagically
download and install.

-- 
Regards Bill;
Fedora 9, Gnome 2.22.2
Evo.2.22.2, Emacs 22.2.1




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