Fedora11 64bit flash not working for me.

[Christopher A. Williams]

On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 04:44 -0600, Lawrence E. Graves wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 08:16 +0000, Matej Cepl wrote:
> > Lawrence E. Graves, Tue, 19 May 2009 13:02:32 -0600:
> > > You must install at the root level.  Extract file libflashplayer.so type
> > > nautilus from in terminal root, go to usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins and
> > > insert in that file and you got it.
> > 
> > I would stress this ... installing libflashplayer.so somewhere in 
> > ~/.mozilla WON'T WORK, it is known and intentional.
> > 
> > Matěj
> > Did you run mozilla-plugins -i -g -v?

I think he meant that some people might try to get this to work by
placing the libflashplayer.so file in their own, personal mozilla home
directory:

/home/<user's home directory>/.mozilla/plugins

The file must specifically be placed in

/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins

If you put it in your home directory, it won't work, and it won't work
because Mozilla is intentionally designed such that this won't work.

The mozilla-plugin-config command is used to inventory and "wrap"
various plugins for use. While originally intended for wrapping 32-bit
plugins for use with 64-bit Mozilla, it also can be used to wrap 64-bit
plugins in a similar way. It's not absolutely necessary to do in this
case, but it definitely doesn't hurt. Some say it's still a good idea to
do.

Cheers,

Chris

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