The silly mess with Firefox 1.5.0.4's Flash plugin

[Jay Cliburn]

Heikki Pesonen wrote:
> On 8/30/06, Nigel Henry <cave.dnb at tiscali.fr> wrote:
> 
>> You'll probably find that you need to create links from Firefox to the
>> Flash-plugin.
>>
>> ln
>> -s /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
>> /usr/local/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so
>>
>> ln
>> -s /usr/lib/flash-plugin/flashplayer.xpt
>> /usr/local/firefox/plugins/flashplayer.xpt
>>
>> You'll probably have to change the Firefox path on the link, as mine on
>> FC2 is
>> in /usr/local.
> 
> 
> I tryed the following:
> 
> [fossiili at localhost plugins]$ ln -s /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
> ~/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
> ln: creating symbolic link
> `/home/fossiili/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so' to
> `/usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so': Fil e exists
> [fossiili at localhost plugins]$ ln -s /usr/lib/flash-plugin/flashplayer.xpt
> ~/.mozilla/plugins/flashplayer.xpt
> ln: creating symbolic link 
> `/home/fossiili/.mozilla/plugins/flashplayer.xpt'
> to `/usr/lib/flash-plugin/flashplayer.xpt': File exists
> [fossiili at localhost plugins]$
> 
> Then I closed Firefox and started it again.  In spite of your kind help. no
> Flash plugin working ...
> 

Instead of symlinks, try copying the libflashplayer.so and .xpt files to 
the relevant /usr/lib plugin directories.  I don't think symlinks work 
for flash.