problems with flash on FC6

Les hlhowell at pacbell.net
Tue Mar 6 17:49:04 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 11:47 +0000, Garry Harthill wrote:
> > 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 '\')
> >
> If the plugin is already in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins you'd probably
> want the link going the other way:
> 
> ln -s  /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
> /usr/lib/firefox.1.0.0.10/plugins/libflashplayer.so
> 
The "so\" should have been "so \".  The backslash would not appear to
the applicaiton as the shell would parse the arguments.

Regards,
Les H




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