flash plugin for mozilla, need some help

[cereal83]

Hey all

I downloaded and installed the flash plugin but it doesn't work, it doesn't show up in the lugin directory and just doesn't work. I went into every mozilla folder I had and copy'ed and pasted all the plugins into there but it still doesn't help.

Can anybody help me? I got it to work before but had to reinstall mandrake and now it won't work.

Thanks

[Beavbo]

Try using a symbolic link between the files.....for mine it was something like:

ln -s /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla-firebird/plugins/libflashplayer.so

Just replace the location of your plugin and the path to your mozilla plugins folder appropriately. For some reason I don't think it works to copy the file itself to the plugin folder, you have to use a symbolic link.

Hope that helps...

[j79zlr]

you have to include the xpt file as well. The binary flash setup prog usually asks you to enter in the path to your mozilla install and should copy everything for you.

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by j79zlr
The binary flash setup prog usually asks you to enter in the path to your mozilla install and should copy everything for you.

That is ALL I do when installing the flash plugin in Mozilla or Firebird.

[cereal83]

well I run the installer and it asks if I want to install it in ~/.mozilla and I say yes because if I say no it exits the installer and if I says q it quits also ... I dunno what to do .

and as for symbolic link. I have no idea what that is and I know you gave an example but do I do that in terminal or the flashplayer-installer ?


Thanks

[ff103]

The sym link is the only way that I have been able to get most of the plugins to work including flash. In a terminal cd to your mozilla plugins directory,then make a link to where the flash plugin is at , my example
xxx@plugins#ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins home/xxx/flashplayer/libflashplayer.so replace th x's with your own info and you should see a page added to mozilla plugins with a little arrow which represents the sym link. Hope this helps.

[cereal83]

well I found out what the problem was ... when I loaded it, I needed a file (lib something) I installed that and now it works great

Thanks