Re: problems with flash on FC6

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On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 05:34:42PM -0600, Paul Osunero wrote:
> On 3/6/07, Akop Pogosian <akopps@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 05:24:19PM -0600, Paul Osunero wrote:
> >> On 3/6/07, Akop Pogosian <akopps@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 12:23:58AM -0800, oldman wrote:
> >> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> >> >> Hash: SHA1
> >> >>
> >> >> Akop Pogosian wrote:
> >> >> > I am trying to install Shockwave Flash 9.0 r31 on my Linux
> >desktops. I
> >> >> > dropped the new libflashplayer.so and flashplayer.xpt files into
> >> >> > /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. This worked fine only on CentOS 4 boxes.
> >> >> > However, on Fedora Core 6, despite using the 32-bit version of
> >> >> > Firefox, I don't see Flash Plugin when I visit about:plugins. Other
> >> >> > plugins, such as Acrobat Reader, register just fine. Please let me
> >> >> > know if I am doing anything wrong. Thanks.
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> > -akop
> >> >> >
> >> >> 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 $HOME location
> >is
> >> >> only for you the other one will work for you root your spouse,
> >whoever)
> >> >>
> >> >> It will possibly be easiest to make a soft link to your
> >> >> libflashplayer.so via: (as root)
> >> >> ln -s /usr/lib/firefox.1.0.0.10/plugins/libflashplayer.so\
> >> >> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
> >> >>
> >> >> that should be all one line (without the '\')
> >> >
> >> >I don't think this has to do with the location of plugins directory
> >> >that I use. /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins is also searched for plugins, and
> >as
> >> >I already mentioned in my original message, other plugins that are in
> >that
> >> >directory do work. Also everything works fine on CentOS 4 machines this
> >> >way.
> >> >I think this problem is specific to flash plugin on Fedora Core 6.
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >> Mabye you don't have the libraries?
> >>
> >> http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2006/09/librarian.html
> >>
> >>   - libdl.so.2
> >>   - libpthread.so.0
> >>   - libX11.so.6
> >>   - libXext.so.6
> >>   - libXt.so.6
> >>   - libfreetype.so.6
> >>   - libfontconfig.so.1
> >>   - libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
> >>   - libgobject-2.0.so.0
> >>   - libglib-2.0.so.0
> >>   - libm.so.6
> >>   - libc.so.6
> >
> >ldd says that all of the necessary shared libraries are present:
> >
> >$ ldd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
> >        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00111000)
> >        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 (0x00115000)
> >        libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x00127000)
> >        libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x00206000)
> >        libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x00214000)
> >        libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0x00265000)
> >        libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x002d0000)
> >        libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0x002f6000)
> >        libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0x005aa000)
> >        libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x00664000)
> >        libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0x005e6000)
> >        libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x00f48000)
> >        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x0064d000)
> >        libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x00609000)
> >        libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x00612000)
> >        libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x0062a000)
> >        libexpat.so.0 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.0 (0x006df000)
> >        libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 => 
> >        /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0(0x006fd000)
> >        libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0x00712000)
> >        libpangoxft-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so.0 (0x0063a000)
> >        libpangox-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangox-1.0.so.0 (0x0063f000)
> >        libpango-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0 (0x0077e000)
> >        libatk-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libatk-1.0.so.0 (0x07c03000)
> >        libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 (0x0064a000)
> >        libXrandr.so.2 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrandr.so.2 (0x007b4000)
> >        libXi.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXi.so.6 (0x007b7000)
> >        libXinerama.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXinerama.so.1 (0x007bf000)
> >        libXft.so.2 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so.2 (0x01073000)
> >        libXcursor.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXcursor.so.1 (0x07bf2000)
> >        libXrender.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0x007c2000)
> >        libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 (0x01085000)
> >
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> 
> What version of Firefox are you using?

The one that comes with FC6, 

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20070226 Fedora/1.5.0.10-1.fc6 Firefox/1.5.0.10 pango-text

-Akop

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