On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 09:13:43PM -0500, Jonathan Berry wrote: > On 3/6/07, Akop Pogosian <akopps@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. > > First, are you sure you are using the 32-bit Firefox? I recently > found out about the firefox-32 package and highly recommend it, see: > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2007-February/msg04216.html It's 32-bit (running on 64-bit OS) > > Secondly, I installed the Flash plugin from the mplug repository: > http://macromedia.mplug.org/ > > Click on a mirror and download the yum .repo file and install it with > yum. That way you know it is installed correctly and also RPM knows > about it. I downloaded the rpm file directly from adobe.com and installed it myself, and it still doesn't work. > > Also, directly answering your question, it seems like you had to > either copy the .so or soft link it, but not the other one for it to > work. Maybe you need to soft link it and not copy the .so file. Just > something I recall from manually installing a while ago. But the repo > works well; I suggest using it. > > Jonathan I use a symbolic link to our local software directory but I don't see why copying the .so and the other file shouldn't work. -akop
