I am having a hell of a time getting adobe flash to work on a recent 5.2 install.>From rpm install:Running firefox as root -- I have verified there is a symlink in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins that points to the actual plugin located in /usr/lib/flash-plugins nada. SoI then copied the plugin directly into /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and eliminated the symlink from the equation. nada. I then installed the plugin into the $HOME/.mozilla/plugins/ directory of a normal user (and making sure everything was read/executable by that user). nada. At no time does the adobe flash pugin ever appear in the plugins panel when viewing Tools->Addons from within the browser. I see no errors or any logs of any kind getting generated anywhere. An rpm check of both firefox and the flash plugin return with no complaints. I see scads of posts on google regarding other adobe flash player woes but none of the solutions i've found so far work. Since most of the sites I require access to, even metalink, required adobe flash this is a show stopper for me. Thanks for any help, CC -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090329/84303146/attachment-0003.html>
On Sun Mar 29 09:23:38 AM, Chuck wrote:> I am having a hell of a time getting adobe flash to work on a recent 5.2 > install.32-bit or 64-bit? The adobe flash plugin is 32-bit only and won't work with the 64-bit local version of Firefox (I could never get it to work anyway). On my 64-bit 5.2 machines, I have a separate 32-bit install of firefox in /usr/local/firefox (downloaded from the mozilla site) and the plugin works fine. Cheers, Zube
2009/3/29 Chuck <chuck.carson at gmail.com>:> > I am having a hell of a time getting adobe flash to work on a recent 5.2 > install.Are you using CentOS 5.2 32 bit or 64 bit? I'm using 32 bit and have Shockwave Flash installed and working with Firefox v.3.0.6. Does that work for you? When I test at this URL: <http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/welcome/> it shows the 2nd one working: "Adobe Flash Player". For the animation at the top, for "Adobe Shockwave Player" it shows that I need another plugin, so I will try to get that....
On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 09:23:38 -0500 Chuck wrote:> I am having a hell of a time getting adobe flash to work on a recent 5.2 > install.Do you have curl.i386 installed? (I've been bitten by this before.) -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com
On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 09:23 -0500, Chuck wrote:> > I am having a hell of a time getting adobe flash to work on a recent > 5.2 install. > > From rpm install: > Running firefox as root -- I have verified there is a symlink > in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins that points to the actual plugin located > in /usr/lib/flash-plugins > nada. > > SoI then copied the plugin directly into /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and > eliminated the symlink from the equation. > nada. > > I then installed the plugin into the $HOME/.mozilla/plugins/ directory > of a normal user (and making sure everything was read/executable by > that user). > nada. > > At no time does the adobe flash pugin ever appear in the plugins panel > when viewing Tools->Addons from within the browser. I see no errors or > any logs of any kind getting generated anywhere. > > An rpm check of both firefox and the flash plugin return with no > complaints. > > I see scads of posts on google regarding other adobe flash player woes > but none of the solutions i've found so far work. > > Since most of the sites I require access to, even metalink, required > adobe flash this is a show stopper for me.Is the firefox losing almost all your plugins? I recently had problems with this. If you go to Edit->Preferences->Advanced->General and see a check for "Always check to see if Firefox is the default browser on startup" it will wipe the ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/pluginreg.dat. Make sure that is not checked. Instead, on a Gnome Desktop, from the menu bar, System->Preferences->More Preferences->Preferred Applications and select Firefox there. I notice you said in another post that shockwave came default. Here too I guess. But when I test at the site Lanny referenced, it fails for me too. When I try to download, it says I'm not supported. I just wondered if your shockwave works. Oh well, that's really OT and for another day. Anyway, I'm also on a 32 bit and flash installed and runs just fine. Here's some tidbits. $ rpm -aq|grep -i flash flash-plugin-10.0.22.87-release.i386 $ cat /etc/yum.repos.d/adobe-linux-i386.repo [adobe-linux-i386] name=Adobe Systems Incorporated baseurl=http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/i386/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 priority=5 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux That was obtained originally from the Adobe site, IIRC. $ ls -l /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins total 2872 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Feb 25 05:19 libflashplayer.so -> /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so <snip uninteresting entries> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 127260 Nov 5 18:51 nppdf.so In my pluginreg.dat, I see /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/nswrapper_32_32.libflashplayer.so:$ That reminds me that during my previous travails, someone suggested that we needed the plugin wrapper. I don't know if this is so, but it's working for me with the wrappers. I don't recall how that is setup - I think from one of the FF administration windows. $ ls -l /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/ total 736 <snip unrelated stuff> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 37 Dec 6 14:27 npwrapper.so -> /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/npwrapper.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 80500 Dec 6 14:27 nswrapper_32_32.libflashplayer.so <snip again> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 80500 Dec 6 14:27 nswrapper_32_32.nppdf.so ls -l /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/ total 344 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 31304 Jul 17 2008 npconfig -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2714 Jul 17 2008 npviewer -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 137372 Jul 17 2008 npviewer.bin -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 80500 Jul 17 2008 npwrapper.so -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 61420 Jul 17 2008 plugin-config $ ls -l $(locate libflashplayer) # I see an older version still there lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Feb 25 05:19 /usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.12/plugins/libflashplayer.so -> /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10131640 Feb 2 21:06 /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Feb 25 05:19 /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so -> /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 80500 Dec 6 14:27 /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/nswrapper_32_32.libflashplayer.so $ ls -l /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10131640 Feb 2 21:06 /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so [wild-bill at centos501 ~]$ file /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), stripped My setup is "box stock" for this stuff, so I don't think you should need to mess with tarballs, source, betas, etc.> > Thanks for any help, > CC > <snip sig stuff>HTH -- Bill
Chuck wrote:> > I am having a hell of a time getting adobe flash to work on a recent 5.2 > install.From a stock CentOS 5 system, fully updated do the following: 1) Install Adobe's yum repository configuration: rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm 2) Install flash-plugin with yum yum install flash-plugin 3) Start, or restart firefox. This should work on any x86 or x86_64 installation of CentOS 5. If it does not, then it is possible that someone has misconfigured something in the system, or in the user's firefox configuration that is conflicting or messing with flash. Before messing with anything in the system to try and "fix" it, create a new dummy user account, and fire up firefox in the new user account to see if flash works in this default state. If it does, but it does not work in your own user account, then something in your user account's firefox configuration might be interfering with its ability to see flash for some reason. You can confirm that flash is present by going to "about:plugins" in the firefox location bar. Once firefox is showing up in about:plugins and flash sites are displaying, you may encounter other problems with flash. Visit YouTube, and if you notice that flash videos are incredibly slow and gimpy and/or audio cuts out, or the video/audio freeze for long periods of time especially on startup, then do the following: 1) Press CTRL-0 to unzoom the current webpage, and do not use the firefox CTRL+mousewheel zoom feature. Reload the page to see if the video plays ok now. 2) If CTRL-0 above allows video to play back properly or even just "better", then your X server might not be configured correctly. 3) Check your X server log to see if "EXA" acceleration is being used. If it shows that "XAA" is being used, then you may not be able to use the firefox "zoom" feature on flash enabled webpages unless you enable "EXA" acceleration for your video hardware (assuming the driver you are using supports EXA). You may or may not experience other performance or video/audio glitch issues with flash. Mozilla's bugzilla is chock full of tonnes of flash issues on Linux. Anyhow, I hope this helps you get things working. Good luck. TTYL