[HELP] ADOBE FLASH

I installed newest Adobe Flash from Adobe home page from .prm and now my previos flash isnt working and new flash too .*
What commands i have to but in Terminal to get it working?

 

Got the same problem too

 

Nobody don't know solution?

 

I'll give it a stab, but I'm not sure how helpful I can be. But let's go for it ...

Post the results of this command:

ls -l /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

you should see a link of libflashplayer.so -> pointing to the actual libflashplayer.so file

Now you need to determine where the real libflashplayer.so was installed. So take a look in /usr/lib/ and see if you can figure that out.

If it's different than where the link is now pointing - maybe the file now goes by a different name or is in a different directory, you'll need to create a new softlink in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ for libflashplayer.so so it points to the new name/location.

Cheers.

 

I should point out that you can install a really good tool for helping you find files like this and that is the "locate" command. Here's how to install it and use it ...

sudo yum install mlocate

After it installs, build locate's database ... it'll scan all files on your system and add them to its database ...

sudo updatedb

A cronjob is run each night at 4:00am to keep the database uptodate. However, since we're using computers that don't run 24x7, this will probably never run. So you should manually run the command sudo updatedb when you want the database to be current.

To use the locate command, you'd simply do something like:

locate libflashplayer.so

and it'll display all files of that name with their path. Makes finding files very easy and QUICK compared to using "find".

Cheers.

 

ls -l /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 2008-10-24 18:49 /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so -> /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.

Whats next?

 

I thought I explained it?

Go and see whether this is actually there: /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer

Read my message on the "locate" command to help you out.

Cheers.

 

yes it is there.

 

Then flash should be working in FF2. You say it isn't. Sorry, I don't have any ideas how to solve the problem for you. Possibly the libflashplayer.so is the wrong one or corrupt? You can try installing it again. Does the date of the file match at all when you installed that flash player plugin?

You could post the results of : locate libflashplayer.so so I can see exactly what you got there.

Cheers.

 

Yes they all matched.
I tried uninstall with commands i found in readme.txt in flashplugin directory and i got

rpm -e flash-plugin
error: can't create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/__db.000


But thank you anyway .

 

Did you preface that command with "sudo"?

Cheers.

 

Mybad .
I reinstalled .And still same problem .
But thanks for your time .

Cheers .

 

Sorry if I'm asking the obvious, but did you close down and restart Firefox after installing the plugin?

Cheers.

 

Yes. I also rebooted computer

 

Which instructions did you follow when installing flash, and which exact binary did you install...post a link if you can.

This is probably the only other obvious thing that could have gone wrong....though these are both stupid questions because you seem to know what you were doing....

The package should be the same as the one downloaded from here: http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/fl ... e.i386.rpm

 

Yes that package . Exactly same.