CentOS - Sep 2009 - Problems with Adobe flash-plugin and Firefox-3.5.x under CentOs-5.3 (yum up to date) => libcurl.so.3/libcurl.so.4 missing

----- Original Message ----
> From: Martin Knoblauch <spamtrap at knobisoft.de>
> To: Centos Discussions <centos at centos.org>
> Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 3:16:20 PM
> Subject: Problems with Adobe flash-plugin and Firefox-3.5.x under
CentOs-5.3 (yum up to date)
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am running 32-bit Firefox-3.5.3 on Centos-5.3 (64-bit kernel) on a Dell 
> Precision M65 laptop. This is likely a Adobe problem, but maybe someone
else has
> seen this before. Please CC me, as I only receive the digest version of the
> list.
> 
> 
> When using the 10.0.32.18-release version of the flash-plugin, trying
> to access *any* page containing flash (e.g. www.adobe.com) causes the
> browser to die. This also happens with version 10.0.22.87. Version
> 9.0.115.0 works fine. To avoid problems with add-ons, Firefox is
> started with "-safe-mode". As far as I know, the problem also
happens
> with Firefox-3.0.x.
> 
> # uname -a
> Linux l6g0223j 2.6.18-128.7.1.el5 #1 SMP Mon Aug 24 08:21:56 EDT 2009
x86_64
> x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> # rpm -q flash-plugin
> flash-plugin-10.0.32.18-release
> 
> 
> Any idea? Anything I can help debugging the problem?
> 
 The problem turns out that libflashplayer.so (Version 10.x) is looking for
dynamically loading libcurl.so.3 or libcurl.so.4. This dependency is neither
documented, nor present in the flash-plugin RPMs from Adobe (both 32- and
64-bit). The dependency probably should also be present  in the firefox RPM
itself.

 I found out by chance when the problem went away after installing the curl.i386
package to get firefox building on my system.

Cheers
Martin

On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Martin Knoblauch <spamtrap at
knobisoft.de> wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----
>
>> From: Martin Knoblauch <spamtrap at knobisoft.de>
>> To: Centos Discussions <centos at centos.org>
>> Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 3:16:20 PM
>> Subject: Problems with Adobe flash-plugin and Firefox-3.5.x under
CentOs-5.3 (yum up to date)
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am running 32-bit Firefox-3.5.3 on Centos-5.3 (64-bit kernel) on a
Dell
>> Precision M65 laptop. This is likely a Adobe problem, but maybe someone
else has
>> seen this before. Please CC me, as I only receive the digest version of
the
>> list.
>>
>>
>> When using the 10.0.32.18-release version of the flash-plugin, trying
>> to access *any* page containing flash (e.g. www.adobe.com) causes the
>> browser to die. This also happens with version 10.0.22.87. Version
>> 9.0.115.0 works fine. To avoid problems with add-ons, Firefox is
>> started with "-safe-mode". As far as I know, the problem also
happens
>> with Firefox-3.0.x.
>>
>> # uname -a
>> Linux l6g0223j 2.6.18-128.7.1.el5 #1 SMP Mon Aug 24 08:21:56 EDT 2009
x86_64
>> x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>> # rpm -q flash-plugin
>> flash-plugin-10.0.32.18-release
>>
>>
>> Any idea? Anything I can help debugging the problem?
>>
>
> ?The problem turns out that libflashplayer.so (Version 10.x) is looking for
dynamically loading libcurl.so.3 or libcurl.so.4. This dependency is neither
documented, nor present in the flash-plugin RPMs from Adobe (both 32- and
64-bit). The dependency probably should also be present ?in the firefox RPM
itself.
>
> ?I found out by chance when the problem went away after installing the
curl.i386 package to get firefox building on my system.
>
> Cheers
> Martin
>
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Documented here under dependencies:

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/153/tn_15380.html