[PLUG] Shockwave flash on Fedora C1?

Zot O'Connor zot at whiteknighthackers.com
Wed Nov 12 02:40:02 UTC 2003


On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 13:26, Steven Raymond wrote:

> Run through it, as both root or regular user.  No errors, do all that it
> requires, but Mozilla never shows flash available as a plugin.  This
> worked just fine with RH9.
> 
> Anyone have experience with getting shockwave flash on FC1?  Or ideas why
> it wouldn't work?

Run strace mozilla > strace.log.

Goto help-> Plugins

Quit.

Search for 'flash' and look for seg faults.  Maybe you have an older
(gcc issues) version?

Read strace to see where the plugins are being loaded from.

ls -l each of those directories *as the user.*

You will likely find one of two things:

1)  The directory is not correct.  I am trying to put everything in
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins but not all version of mozilla look there. 
Often they looking in things like /usr/lib/mozilla1-4/plugins, or if you
are running mozilla from www.mozilla.org, /usr/local/mozilla/plugins/

I just put mozilla 1.5 from www.mozilla.org on my workstation, in
parallel with ximian version 1.4.  The www.mozilla.org version goes in
/usr/local/mozilla and I had to copy my plugins from both of the
non(usr/local) locations into the /usr/local location.

Lastly by doing ls as a user, you are checking if the permissions are
set right.  Sometime an upper directoy is not set right.

Also there is an app gflashplayer that might help test things.

And if all else fails, copy libflashplayer.so and flashplayer.xpt to
~mozilla/plugins.


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