Re: Flash plugin RPM installed but not being used by Firefix

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On Friday 07 June 2013 02:26:32 T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:
> You have the 32-bit version of the Flash Player installed on a 64-bit
> system.  64-bit Firefox cannot use 32-bit NPAPI plugins.  This might
> have happened if you downloaded the "adobe-release" RPM on a 32-bit
> system or you used an old download from a different system.
>
> To fix this, remove the "adobe-release-i386" and "flash-plugin"
> packages with yum:  `yum remove adobe-release-i386 flash-plugin`.
> Then visit the Adobe website at http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer on
> the computer you intend to install it on.  Make sure the Operating
> System information at the top reads "Linux 64-bit", and then select
> the YUM rpm option, which will download an "adobe-release-x86_64" RPM
> as opposed to the "adobe-release-i386" RPM you used previously.
> Install it, then run `yum install flash-plugin` and everything should
> work fine.
>
> -T.C.

T.C. I finally managed to follow your in structions and it has indeed fixed 
the problem viewing youtube as well as web chatting/Skype.  However, although 
I can watch the other person's web cam I can't get mine to work.


Anyone got any ideas? I've tried manually setting the library path before 
calling firefox as per one google result but that didin't do it

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Gary Stainburn
Group I.T. Manager
Ringways Garages
http://www.ringways.co.uk 
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