Can't get flash-plugin working in FF3 ??

[Bill Case]

Hi;

The subject of media has been something I have avoided, so I am a newbie
at understanding what I might be doing wrong.

I am running F9 -x86_64 and FireFox3.  Yum shows me flash-plugin (Adobe
Flash Plugin 9.0.124.0 arch i386) is installed.  Firefox 'about:plugin'
shows me flash-plugin is NOT installed.  After download and installation
I re-booted just to sure and no joy.

What could I be doing wrong? Where should I look?  Is there an arch
mis-match?

Dumb question: Is there a Linux substitute for Adobe Flash?

[Antonio Olivares]

--- On Sat, 6/21/08, William Case  wrote:
> From: William Case 
> Subject: Can't get flash-plugin working in FF3 ??
> To: "Fedora List" 
> Date: Saturday, June 21, 2008, 8:43 AM
> Hi;
>
> The subject of media has been something I have avoided, so
> I am a newbie
> at understanding what I might be doing wrong.
>
> I am running F9 -x86_64 and FireFox3.  Yum shows me
> flash-plugin (Adobe
> Flash Plugin 9.0.124.0 arch i386) is installed.  Firefox
> 'about:plugin'
> shows me flash-plugin is NOT installed.  After download and
> installation
> I re-booted just to sure and no joy.
>
> What could I be doing wrong? Where should I look?  Is there
> an arch
> mis-match?
>
> Dumb question: Is there a Linux substitute for Adobe Flash?

There gnash, and swdef? or something like that.  I installed gnash, it is ok for some stuff, but not for the whole enchilada.

Regards,

Antonio
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[Christopher A Williams]

On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 11:43 -0400, William Case wrote:
> Hi;
>
> The subject of media has been something I have avoided, so I am a newbie
> at understanding what I might be doing wrong.
>
> I am running F9 -x86_64 and FireFox3.  Yum shows me flash-plugin (Adobe
> Flash Plugin 9.0.124.0 arch i386) is installed.  Firefox 'about:plugin'
> shows me flash-plugin is NOT installed.  After download and installation
> I re-booted just to sure and no joy.
>
> What could I be doing wrong? Where should I look?  Is there an arch
> mis-match?
>
> Dumb question: Is there a Linux substitute for Adobe Flash?

Indeed there are substitutes and alternatives, but IHMO / experience,
none of them are as good as Flash 9.

The way I got this to work reliably on 64-bit F9 was to read and follow
the instructions on Section 10.5.1 of the F9 Release Notes. You can even
copy / paste the specific commands to complete the task if you like.

For the sake of convenience, the F9 US English Release Notes are found
at:

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f9/en_US/

Hope that helps!

Cheers,

Chris

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[David]

William Case wrote:
> Hi;
>
> The subject of media has been something I have avoided, so I am a newbie
> at understanding what I might be doing wrong.
>
> I am running F9 -x86_64 and FireFox3.  Yum shows me flash-plugin (Adobe
> Flash Plugin 9.0.124.0 arch i386) is installed.  Firefox 'about:plugin'
> shows me flash-plugin is NOT installed.  After download and installation
> I re-booted just to sure and no joy.
>
> What could I be doing wrong? Where should I look?  Is there an arch
> mis-match?
>
> Dumb question: Is there a Linux substitute for Adobe Flash?

This works for Flash and x_64

10.3.1. Enabling Flash Plugin
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f8/en_US/sn-Desktop.html#sn-KDE-...

[Bill Case]

Thanks Chris;

On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 09:56 -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 11:43 -0400, William Case wrote:
> > Hi;
> >
> > The subject of media has been something I have avoided, so I am a newbie
> > at understanding what I might be doing wrong.
> >
> > I am running F9 -x86_64 and FireFox3.  Yum shows me flash-plugin (Adobe
> > Flash Plugin 9.0.124.0 arch i386) is installed.  Firefox 'about:plugin'
> > shows me flash-plugin is NOT installed.  After download and installation
> > I re-booted just to sure and no joy.
> >
> > What could I be doing wrong? Where should I look?  Is there an arch
> > mis-match?
> >
> > Dumb question: Is there a Linux substitute for Adobe Flash?
>
> Indeed there are substitutes and alternatives, but IHMO / experience,
> none of them are as good as Flash 9.
>
> The way I got this to work reliably on 64-bit F9 was to read and follow
> the instructions on Section 10.5.1 of the F9 Release Notes. You can even
> copy / paste the specific commands to complete the task if you like.
>
> For the sake of convenience, the F9 US English Release Notes are found
> at:
>
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f9/en_US/
>
> Hope that helps!

Worked like a charm.  Don't know why I didn't think of going to the
release notes.  I guess I just assumed Flash should automagically
download and install.