Firefox doesn't recognize flash using nspluginwrapper

Charles Tuckey charles at tuckey.ca
Wed Nov 29 02:38:29 UTC 2006


I should have been more specific about acrobat. It shows up in
about:plugins but it doesn't work as a plugin - nothing shows up when
I click on a pdf link.

charlie

On 11/27/06, Sean Bruno <sean.bruno at dsl-only.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 20:20 -0700, Charles Tuckey wrote:
> > I can't get the flash player plugin to work using nspluginwrapper. I
> > have checked with google and I can't find anyone else who has had this
> > problem. At least if they used the latest version of nspluginwrapper
> > and installed it correctly.
> >
> > The details:
> > - kernel 2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 x86_64
> > - firefox 1.5.0.8, 64 bit
> > - nspluginwrapper 0.9.90.4
> > - flash player version 7.0.68.0
> >
> > Install flash plugin:
> > > nspluginwrapper -i /tmp/32bit/libflashplayer.so
> > > nspluginwrapper -l
> >      /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
> >      Original plugin: /tmp/32bit/libflashplayer.so
> >      Wrapper version string: 0.9.90.4
> > > ls /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins
> >       mplayerplug-in-dvx.so  mplayerplug-in-rm.so  mplayerplug-in-wmp.so
> >       npwrapper.nppdf.so mplayerplug-in-qt.so   mplayerplug-in.so
> >       npwrapper.libflashplayer.so  npwrapper.so
> >
> > But about:plugins doesn't show the flash player as a plugin and it
> > won't work (obviously).
> >
> > As a test, I installed the  adobe acrobat plugin and it works just fine.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> >     Charlie
> >
>
> I'm not sure how you got the acrobat plugin working!?  Let me know if
> you get a hint as to what is going on, I would appreciate any
> information sent my way as well.
>
> Sean
>
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-- 
Regards,
    Charlie




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