F9: Adobe Flash: It works, it does not work - repeatingsyndrome.

[Paul W. Frields]

On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 16:20 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:
> Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> >
> > Craig White wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 15:50 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:
> > > > I have tried in vain to get Adobe's Flash to work in FF. It does
> > > > not matter how many times I have tried installing, un-installing
> > > > the adobe flash package - it says it was installed successfully.
> > > >
> > > > The problem so it appears, is flash works sometimes and sometimes
> > > > it does not.  I think this may be because the default flash plugin is
> > > > actually swfdec Yes, I have libflashsupport installed as well.
> > > >
> > > > Under FireFox, you can try to change the swf default under
> > > > 'Preferences' - however - I am clueless as how to override
> > > > swfdec and force the default to be Adobe's Flash - attempts
> > > > to try to do so only opens up a File/Directory Dialog box
> > > > and I am clueless as to where/what directory/file needs to
> > > > be loaded - I thought it was something of a library like:
> > > >
> > > > /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
> > > >
> > > > but that does not seem to work.
> > > >
> > > > Btw: I have no problems with F8 - works like a charm and it
> > > > does not use swfdec - but then again - that was with FF v2.0.x
> > > ----
> > > don't have both installed - remove swfdec
> > >
> > done!
> > >
> > > run nspluginwrapper installer...
> > >
> > Sorry for being dense - but I cannot run 'nspluginwrapper'
> > What is the command for doing that or precisely, what do I need
> > to do here?
> > >
> > > mozilla-plugin-config -i
> > >
> > > Craig
> >
> Well, I tried:
> 
> 1) yum update nspluginwrapper
> Package nspluginwrapper-1.1.0-5.fc9.i386 already installed and latest 
> version
> Nothing to do
> 
> 2) mozilla-plugin-config -i
> NPP_GetValue()
> *** NSPlugin Viewer  *** ERROR: 
> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/librhythmbox-itms-detection-plugin.so: 
> undefined symbol: __gxx_personality_v0
> 
> So there seems to be a problem?

You can find complete instructions here:

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f9/en_US/sn-Desktop.html#sn-Enabling-Flash-Plugin 

I just rebuilt a Fedora 9 box today from scratch and can verify these
instructions are correct.  In particular, you need to use
'mozilla-plugin-config -i -g -v'.

The release notes are often helpful for things that one thinks *should*
work (especially because gosh darn it, everyone wants to do... uh, that
thing!).  :-)

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