How to get FlashPlayer working under 64bit/Fc11

Martin Airs camberwell at gmail.com
Sat Nov 28 17:27:49 UTC 2009


On 11/28/2009 05:22 PM, Reg Clemens wrote:
>> On Saturday 28 November 2009 08:26:51 Reg Clemens wrote:
>>      
>>> Can someone PLEASE give me detailed instructions on how to get flash-player
>>> working on this machine, or point me as some (working) instructions on the
>>>   web.
>>>        
>> (1) Clean up all potential mess from previous attempts (like nspluginwrapper,
>> any existing flash plugin etc...).
>>
>> (2) Download the 64bit flash player from here:
>>
>>    http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10_64bit.html
>>
>> (3) Unpack it, and copy the .so file in /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/ directory:
>>
>> $ gunzip libflashpl*
>> $ tar xvf libflashpl*
>> $ su
>> # cp libflashpl*.so /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/
>>
>> (you need to be root to perform the copy).
>>
>> (4) Restart firefox.
>>
>> (5) Point it to about:plugins page and make sure that flash plugin is on the
>> list.
>>
>> (6) Go to www.youtube.com and try it out.
>>
>>      
> Thanks, but not quite.
> Instead of getting a screen telling me to load flash-player, I just get
> an empty light-blue screen, and nothing happens.
>
> I have been testing with CNN news, which is the application I really
> want to use flash with.  There, I get the above behaviour with all video
> clips.  On youtube, mabe 1/2 or 1/3 of the video clips play, but the rest
> give the blue screen result.  I will assume that the ones that play are
> something other than flash.
>
> Any further thoughts on what I may have missed?
>    
A guy in fedoraforums made an rpm for x86_64.....

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.php?p=1119587&postcount=1

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