Flash plugin RPM installed but not being used by Firefix

[Rejy M Cyriac]

On 06/06/2013 06:16 PM, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> Hi folks.
> 
> I've followed the instructions to install the flash plugin by downloading the 
> YUM version and then installing the RPM. I got no errors when doing any of 
> this. However, flash still does not work in Firefox. If I do 'about:plugins' 
> it isn't listed.
> 
> Any suggestions on what to try next. All I'm getting from Google is variations 
> of the same instructions I've already done.
> [root at gary ~]# uname -a
> Linux gary.ringways.co.uk 3.8.13-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon May 13 13:36:17 
> UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> [gary at gary ~]$ rpm -qa|grep firefox
> firefox-21.0-3.fc17.x86_64
> [gary at gary ~]$ rpm -qa|grep flash
> flash-plugin-11.2.202.285-release.i386
> [gary at gary ~]$ ll /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
> total 172
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root     39 Jun  6 13:21 
> libflashplayer.so -> /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 176032 May 15 10:53 nppdf.so
> [gary at gary ~]$
> 
Try out the open source version - gnash-plugin  :-)

yum remove flash-plugin

....

yum install gnash-plugin

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Regards,

Rejy M Cyriac (rmc)