People keep sending me links to videos and then when I click on them Firefox says that the video won't play since I don't have flash installed. But then when I click on the installer I (eventually) get messages to the effect that the required package is already installed.
If I click on Tools -> Addons -> Plugins I get messages to the effect that I don't "have any plugins of this type installed". (***WHAT*** <expletive deleted> type? I never mentioned any "type"!!!
I've googled around quite a bit and any suggestion that I've found was of no use whatever. (I.e. I keep getting the same message that I don't have flash installed.)
WTF do I have to do? Is the problem the fact that I am still running Fedora 17? (I have not upgraded since everything except the flash business seems to be running smoothly, and I don't want to get into an incomprehensible upgrade hassle unless I absolutely have to.)
Grateful for any suggestions and/or advice.
cheers,
Rolf Turner
On Tue, 24 Dec 2013 21:56:22 +1300 Rolf Turner r.turner@auckland.ac.nz wrote:
People keep sending me links to videos and then when I click on them Firefox says that the video won't play since I don't have flash installed. But then when I click on the installer I (eventually) get messages to the effect that the required package is already installed.
Adobe have stopped updating flash for Linux.
On 24/12/13 21:58, Frank Murphy wrote:
On Tue, 24 Dec 2013 21:56:22 +1300 Rolf Turner r.turner@auckland.ac.nz wrote:
People keep sending me links to videos and then when I click on them Firefox says that the video won't play since I don't have flash installed. But then when I click on the installer I (eventually) get messages to the effect that the required package is already installed.
Adobe have stopped updating flash for Linux.
So is there anything that I can do so as to be able to watch such videos?
cheers,
Rolf Turner
On Tue, 24 Dec 2013 22:00:27 +1300 Rolf Turner r.turner@auckland.ac.nz wrote:
On 24/12/13 21:58, Frank Murphy wrote:
On Tue, 24 Dec 2013 21:56:22 +1300 Rolf Turner r.turner@auckland.ac.nz wrote:
People keep sending me links to videos and then when I click on them Firefox says that the video won't play since I don't have flash installed. But then when I click on the installer I (eventually) get messages to the effect that the required package is already installed.
Adobe have stopped updating flash for Linux.
So is there anything that I can do so as to be able to watch such videos?
cheers, Rolf Turner
I had to do this: sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins when i ran into this problem.
Peter Reed
On 26/12/13 07:24, Peter Reed wrote:
<SNIP>
I had to do this: sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins when i ran into this problem.
Thanks but that's not the problem. I had a look and that symbolic link is already in place.
cheers,
Rolf Turner
On 12/25/2013 4:56 PM, Rolf Turner wrote:
On 26/12/13 07:24, Peter Reed wrote:
<SNIP>I had to do this: sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins when i ran into this problem.
Thanks but that's not the problem. I had a look and that symbolic link is already in place.
cheers, Rolf Turner
Simple way:
Adobe Flash Player 11.2 on Fedora 20/19, CentOS/RHEL 6.5/5.10
On 12/24/2013 04:58 PM, Frank Murphy wrote:
On Tue, 24 Dec 2013 21:56:22 +1300 Rolf Turner r.turner@auckland.ac.nz wrote:
People keep sending me links to videos and then when I click on them Firefox says that the video won't play since I don't have flash installed. But then when I click on the installer I (eventually) get messages to the effect that the required package is already installed.
Adobe have stopped updating flash for Linux.
Yes and no. They have stopped enhancing it, but they are still bug fixing, especially for security issues. The latest update RPM on my Fedora 19 boxes is less than a month old.
That said, flash is on its way out. If you consider they have withdrawn flash from the largest single media platform on the planet - Android - its obviously going through a near death experience. Its just a pity so many web site are super slow at reworking their platform to feed us video in other ways.
Steve
On Tue, 2013-12-24 at 21:56 +1300, Rolf Turner wrote: [Looking for Flash Player]
Grateful for any suggestions and/or advice.
Googling didn't turn this up?
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flash
cheers, Rolf Turner
On 24/12/13 22:14, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
On Tue, 2013-12-24 at 21:56 +1300, Rolf Turner wrote: [Looking for Flash Player]
Grateful for any suggestions and/or advice.
Googling didn't turn this up?
Well, not as such. Googling turns up (as always) several million things and that one was not, uh, prominent. After looking through the first half dozen or so hits, I gave up.
That being said, thanks for pointing out that site to me.
***That*** being said, it still doesn't work. I followed the instructions to the letter.
(1)
sudo yum install http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noar... -y
This gave:
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm | 4.2 kB 00:00 Examining /var/tmp/yum-root-mliVX0/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm: adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch /var/tmp/yum-root-mliVX0/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm: does not update installed package. Error: Nothing to do
Which is pretty much as I expected, given that I had installed the damned thing already.
(2)
sudo rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linuxThi
This produced no response at all --- no error message, but neither was there any indication of success.
(3)
sudo yum install flash-plugin -y
This produced a bunch of boiler-plate and finally:
Package flash-plugin-11.2.202.332-release.x86_64 already installed and latest version Nothing to do
So it would *appear* that everything was already in place as it should be. But then:
(4)
Type the following text in the Firefox address bar:
about:plugins
When I did that I got:
No installed plugins found
I must be missing some key element in my set-up, but I have no idea what. Can anyone enlighten me? Grateful for any advice.
cheers,
Rolf Turner
P. S. It was suggested that I try Google Chrome. I did that, and under Google Chrome, flash does indeed work and I can play the videos from the links that I was sent.
Nevertheless I would rather stick with using Firefox (the devil I know) and I would like to understand just *why* flash is refusing to work under Firefox. As I said, I would appreciate enlightenment!
R. T.
... snip ...
i've started keeping my own fedora 20 HOWTO page, and here's my snippet on getting flash to work:
http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/F20#Flash
i followed the instructions on the linked-to page and it just worked. don't forget that you have to completely close firefox and restart it.
rday
On 26/12/13 10:40, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
... snip ...
i've started keeping my own fedora 20 HOWTO page, and here's my snippet on getting flash to work:
http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/F20#Flash
i followed the instructions on the linked-to page and it just worked. don't forget that you have to completely close firefox and restart it.
rday
Couldn't get to the link indicated above; the wheel of death just spun and spun.
I did close Firefox and re-start; did it again just to make sure. Same result.
I am not using Fedora 20. I am still running the antediluvian Fedora 17 (not having worked up the nerve to upgrade ...). Could that be the problem? Do I need to upgrade (to Fedora 18? 19? 20?) before flash will work? Why?
cheers,
Rolf Turner
Sorry for top posting but this phone doesn't allow bottom posting.
I too use F17. What I did was download the rpm from adobe and used rpm to install. Flash works just fine except on cp24.com of the sites I visit that requires flash.
Yum complains but still works and hasn't caused problems.
Dave Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone powered by Mobilicity
-----Original Message----- From: Rolf Turner r.turner@auckland.ac.nz Sender: users-bounces@lists.fedoraproject.org Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2013 10:52:56 To: Community support for Fedora usersusers@lists.fedoraproject.org Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users users@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: Possibly OT --- Adobe flash player; how to get it to run?
On 26/12/13 10:40, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
... snip ...
i've started keeping my own fedora 20 HOWTO page, and here's my snippet on getting flash to work:
http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/F20#Flash
i followed the instructions on the linked-to page and it just worked. don't forget that you have to completely close firefox and restart it.
rday
Couldn't get to the link indicated above; the wheel of death just spun and spun.
I did close Firefox and re-start; did it again just to make sure. Same result.
I am not using Fedora 20. I am still running the antediluvian Fedora 17 (not having worked up the nerve to upgrade ...). Could that be the problem? Do I need to upgrade (to Fedora 18? 19? 20?) before flash will work? Why?
cheers,
Rolf Turner
On 26/12/13 10:58, davidschaak1@mobilicity.blackberry.com wrote:
Sorry for top posting but this phone doesn't allow bottom posting.
I too use F17. What I did was download the rpm from adobe and used rpm to install. Flash works just fine except on cp24.com of the sites I visit that requires flash.
Yum complains but still works and hasn't caused problems.
<SNIP>
I downloaded the rpm and did:
sudo rpm -ivh flash-plugin-11.2.202.332-release.x86_64.rpm
I got (not too surprisingly):
package flash-plugin-11.2.202.332-release.x86_64 is already installed
Thanks anyway..
cheers,
Rolf Turner
On 25.12.2013, Heinz Diehl wrote:
- Download the latest Flash plugin
http://get.adobe.com/de/flashplayer/
You choose the .tar.gz archive.
On 26/12/13 11:16, Heinz Diehl wrote:
On 24.12.2013, Rolf Turner wrote:
WTF do I have to do?
- Download the latest Flash plugin
- Copy "libflashplayer.so" to ~/.mozilla/plugins
- Restart Firefox
You're done.
And later added:
- Download the latest Flash plugin
http://get.adobe.com/de/flashplayer/
You choose the .tar.gz archive.
Yesssss!!!! It worked. Thank you hugely.
cheers,
Rolf Turner
P. S. Surely there should be something in the instructions or mechanism for installing flash to the effect that libflashplayer.so (or a copy thereof) has to be placed in the user's "private" plugins directory ~/.mozilla/plugins.
There seems to be a gap here that could very easily be filled.
OTOH this appears only to have affected ***me***. What is different about my system? This is basically of academic interest at the moment, since I've got things working, but it could be of practical interest sometime in the future.
R. T.
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