Fedora11 64bit flash not working for me.

Riku Seppälä riku.seppala at kymp.net
Thu May 21 16:44:43 UTC 2009


Lawrence E. Graves wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 06:08 -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
>   
>> 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.
>>
>>     
Am I doing something wrong because I have libflashplayer.so in my 
~/.mozilla/plugins and it works just fine?

Riku




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