problems with flash on FC6

[Paul Osunero]

On 3/6/07, Akop Pogosian <akopps at ls.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 05:24:19PM -0600, Paul Osunero wrote:
> > On 3/6/07, Akop Pogosian <akopps at ls.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > >On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 12:23:58AM -0800, oldman wrote:
> > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > >> Hash: SHA1
> > >>
> > >> Akop Pogosian wrote:
> > >> > I am trying to install Shockwave Flash 9.0 r31 on my Linux
> desktops. I
> > >> > dropped the new libflashplayer.so and flashplayer.xpt files into
> > >> > /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. This worked fine only on CentOS 4 boxes.
> > >> > However, on Fedora Core 6, despite using the 32-bit version of
> > >> > Firefox, I don't see Flash Plugin when I visit about:plugins. Other
> > >> > plugins, such as Acrobat Reader, register just fine. Please let me
> > >> > know if I am doing anything wrong. Thanks.
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > -akop
> > >> >
> > >> Default locations for Firefox are the plugins directory under
> > >> /usr/lib/firefox.<latestinstallversion> OR the plugins Directory
> under
> > >> $HOME/.mozilla (the difference is that (of course) the $HOME location
> is
> > >> only for you the other one will work for you root your spouse,
> whoever)
> > >>
> > >> It will possibly be easiest to make a soft link to your
> > >> libflashplayer.so via: (as root)
> > >> ln -s /usr/lib/firefox.1.0.0.10/plugins/libflashplayer.so\
> > >> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
> > >>
> > >> that should be all one line (without the '\')
> > >
> > >I don't think this has to do with the location of plugins directory
> > >that I use. /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins is also searched for plugins, and
> as
> > >I already mentioned in my original message, other plugins that are in
> that
> > >directory do work. Also everything works fine on CentOS 4 machines this
> > >way.
> > >I think this problem is specific to flash plugin on Fedora Core 6.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > Mabye you don't have the libraries?
> >
> > http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2006/09/librarian.html
> >
> >   - libdl.so.2
> >   - libpthread.so.0
> >   - libX11.so.6
> >   - libXext.so.6
> >   - libXt.so.6
> >   - libfreetype.so.6
> >   - libfontconfig.so.1
> >   - libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
> >   - libgobject-2.0.so.0
> >   - libglib-2.0.so.0
> >   - libm.so.6
> >   - libc.so.6
>
> ldd says that all of the necessary shared libraries are present:
>
> $ ldd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
>         libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00111000)
>         libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 (0x00115000)
>         libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x00127000)
>         libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x00206000)
>         libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x00214000)
>         libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0x00265000)
>         libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x002d0000)
>         libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0x002f6000)
>         libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0x005aa000)
>         libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x00664000)
>         libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0x005e6000)
>         libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x00f48000)
>         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x0064d000)
>         libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x00609000)
>         libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x00612000)
>         libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x0062a000)
>         libexpat.so.0 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.0 (0x006df000)
>         libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0(0x006fd000)
>         libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0x00712000)
>         libpangoxft-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so.0 (0x0063a000)
>         libpangox-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangox-1.0.so.0 (0x0063f000)
>         libpango-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0 (0x0077e000)
>         libatk-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libatk-1.0.so.0 (0x07c03000)
>         libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 (0x0064a000)
>         libXrandr.so.2 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrandr.so.2 (0x007b4000)
>         libXi.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXi.so.6 (0x007b7000)
>         libXinerama.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXinerama.so.1 (0x007bf000)
>         libXft.so.2 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so.2 (0x01073000)
>         libXcursor.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXcursor.so.1 (0x07bf2000)
>         libXrender.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0x007c2000)
>         libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 (0x01085000)
>
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What version of Firefox are you using?
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