FireFox Flash player

Matthew Saltzman mjs at ces.clemson.edu
Sun Apr 2 23:30:13 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2 Apr 2006, Jacques B. wrote:

> On 4/2/06, Ali Helmy <alihelmy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hey mates,
>>
>> I was browsing the net recently on my FC5 using FF1.5, and when I got onto a
>> page with flash player, FF said it needed to install necessary plug-ins...
>> so I opened the FF menu, and it brought a choice of Flash player, so i
>> clicked install and everything went right... then I restarted the browser,
>> and now it still asks me to install the plug-in like i didn't do anything in
>> the first place
>>
>> this scenario repeats no matter how many times i install the plug-in through
>> FF and on all sites using flash... is there some other way to install it?

http://macromedia.mplug.org/

>>
>> cheers

> Turn off SELinux and it will install.  You can re-enable SELinux again
> afterwards and all will remain fine (of course needs a re-boot to
> re-apply SELinux).

Usually, it is enough to "/usr/sbin/setenforce 0" to turn SElinux off and 
"/usr/sbin/setenforce 1" to turn it back on.

>
> Jacques
>
>
>

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 		Matthew Saltzman

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