[opensuse] Flash Player Plugin in Firefox still doesnt work - Mac OS X 10.x and Ubuntu always works.
Hi all, The last 2 years or so there has been no real solution to the Firefox and Adobe Flash Player installation fiasco on a x86_64 system. I have tried all variants of installation found with search machines in the internet. I recently installed a few Mac OSX 10.x (PPC & Int.) and Ubuntu systems. None of them had the problems with Adobe's Flash Player. Why does openSUSE still have the problem? I also have no problems with Konqueror and Flash Player on openSUSE. I use it now for all flash requirements, even if a newer version can not be installed as it suggests. Firefox works with flash player in OSX and Ubuntu. A normal user (which we try to attract to migrate to openSUSE), that gets to a website with Firefox and is asked to install the plug-in, will have to select it. It starts to install and then says "Installaton failed". They do a manual installation from the link that is given to do it in the firefox plug-in finder service. I select rpm and it installs dierctly with the software installer. The software installer then reports that flash plugin could not be installed. The rpm failure message is "already installed". Copying all the sugestions' /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so does nothing to help. Maunual installations of the *.tar.gz does not work either. There used to be a page on openSUSE at http://opensuse-community.org/Multimedia and http://opensuse-community.org/Restricted_Formats. No joy either. If you follow the hint to un-install all gstreamer packages, you come into a dependency hell. No normal user survives that! I got it to work for a short week until openSUSE destroyed it with an online update. How in the name of Hl can we attract normal users that will need flash player on almost all websites they use? It is a disaster! No normal user can solve the problem without CLI. Please supply a genuine fix, or sort out openSUSE's way of handling the problem in the future please, ... please, ...please! :-( Al -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wednesday 30 September 2009 11:10:55 LActive@GMX.Net wrote:
Hi all,
The last 2 years or so there has been no real solution to the Firefox and Adobe Flash Player installation fiasco on a x86_64 system. I have tried all variants of installation found with search machines in the internet. I recently installed a few Mac OSX 10.x (PPC & Int.) and Ubuntu systems. None of them had the problems with Adobe's Flash Player. Why does openSUSE still have the problem? I also have no problems with Konqueror and Flash Player on openSUSE. I use it now for all flash requirements, even if a newer version can not be installed as it suggests. Firefox works with flash player in OSX and Ubuntu.
A normal user (which we try to attract to migrate to openSUSE), that gets to a website with Firefox and is asked to install the plug-in, will have to select it. It starts to install and then says "Installaton failed". They do a manual installation from the link that is given to do it in the firefox plug-in finder service. I select rpm and it installs dierctly with the software installer. The software installer then reports that flash plugin could not be installed. The rpm failure message is "already installed".
Copying all the sugestions' /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so does nothing to help. Maunual installations of the *.tar.gz does not work either. There used to be a page on openSUSE at http://opensuse-community.org/Multimedia and http://opensuse-community.org/Restricted_Formats. No joy either. If you follow the hint to un-install all gstreamer packages, you come into a dependency hell. No normal user survives that! I got it to work for a short week until openSUSE destroyed it with an online update. How in the name of Hl can we attract normal users that will need flash player on almost all websites they use?
It is a disaster! No normal user can solve the problem without CLI. Please supply a genuine fix, or sort out openSUSE's way of handling the problem in the future please, ... please, ...please!
:-(
Al
No problem here with adobe flash player. Here is the output of 'zypper se flash': Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... S | Name | Summary | Type --+-----------------------+---------------------------------------------------+----------- i | flash-player | Adobe Flash PlugIn and standalone Player | package | flash-player | Adobe Flash PlugIn and standalone Player | srcpackage i | flash-player | flash-player security update | patch i | libflashsupport | Additional support for Flash-based applications | package | libflashsupport-32bit | Additional support for Flash-based applications | package i | pullin-flash-player | Placeholder for Adobe Flash PlugIn | package | tvflash | Tool to manage Mellanox HCA firmware flash memory | package -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
It is a disaster! No normal user can solve the problem without CLI. Please supply a genuine fix, or sort out openSUSE's way of handling the problem in the future
I thought it was solved. On my installs... on many machines including 64 bit (my primary install type now) Adobe Flash is automagically installed the first time I start up the Software management app from YaST. I can't remember if it's before or after I add the community repos... but I've never had to manually install Flash on openSUSE 11.1. Flash works perfectly fine on 64 bit. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wednesday 30 September 2009 03:15:03 pm Clayton wrote:
It is a disaster! No normal user can solve the problem without CLI.
Adobe Flash is automagically installed the first time I start up the Software management app from YaST.
Flash works perfectly fine on 64 bit.
same here. the only problem i have is getting flash to work with mozilla minefield, FF 3.7a1pre, which is an alpha release. FF 3.5.2 works with flash w/o any problems. which version of FF do you use, and what repos do you have enabled? -- phani. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 2009/09/30 15:46 (GMT+0530) phanisvara das composed:
the only problem i have is getting flash to work with mozilla minefield, FF 3.7a1pre, which is an alpha release. FF 3.5.2 works with flash w/o any problems.
Likely the Minefield problem has to do with dispensing with the need for plugins for Flash and other common media types. -- "The Scriptures tell us righteousness exalteth a Nation." 2nd U.S. President, John Adams Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wednesday 30 September 2009 04:18:59 pm Felix Miata wrote:
Likely the Minefield problem has to do with dispensing with the need for plugins for Flash and other common media types.
possible, but since FF 3.5 isn't very far behind minefield anymore speed- wise, i'm not bothering with sorting this out, using 3.5 instead. -- phani. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Hi, Am 30.09.2009 10:10, schrieb LActive@GMX.Net:
It is a disaster! No normal user can solve the problem without CLI. Please supply a genuine fix, or sort out openSUSE's way of handling the problem in the future please, ... please, ...please!
Sorry to hear that you have issues but I think it's fine to say that it works out of the box for the majority of the users. What doesn't work in every case is to install the Adobe RPM since it may use wrong file locations. The flash-player RPM in the non-oss repo is always installed correctly and since nspluginwrapper is available it also works in 64bit environments (not completely stable though but at least usable for me and apparently others). Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
Hi,
Am 30.09.2009 10:10, schrieb LActive@GMX.Net:
It is a disaster! No normal user can solve the problem without CLI. Please supply a genuine fix, or sort out openSUSE's way of handling the problem in the future please, ... please, ...please!
Sorry to hear that you have issues but I think it's fine to say that it works out of the box for the majority of the users. What doesn't work in every case is to install the Adobe RPM since it may use wrong file locations. The flash-player RPM in the non-oss repo is always installed correctly and since nspluginwrapper is available it also works in 64bit environments (not completely stable though but at least usable for me and apparently others).
for what it's worth, i just installed the 64-bit flash plugin into SLES 11, works fine. don't bother with packages -- grab the tarball from here: http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html open it up, and copy the single library file into /usr/lib64/browser-plugins/. kill all your running firefox instances, start again. to verify, browse to "about:plugins" and the flash plugin should be listed. again, the above is for 64-bit. no need for ndiswrapper. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ======================================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
* Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> [09-30-09 06:40]:
for what it's worth, i just installed the 64-bit flash plugin into SLES 11, works fine. don't bother with packages -- grab the tarball from here:
*generally* this is *really* bad advice for noobs expecially as most of the openSUSE "packages" are tweaked to run better in the openSUSE environment. And "packages" provide for the updating and/or removal of "packages" without affecting other existing packages. -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 30/09/09 06:34, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
again, the above is for 64-bit. no need for ndiswrapper.
ndiswrapper has nothing to do with flash.. I guess you meant nspluginwrapper... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
Hi,
Am 30.09.2009 10:10, schrieb LActive@GMX.Net:
It is a disaster! No normal user can solve the problem without CLI. Please supply a genuine fix, or sort out openSUSE's way of handling the problem in the future please, ... please, ...please!
Sorry to hear that you have issues but I think it's fine to say that it works out of the box for the majority of the users. What doesn't work in every case is to install the Adobe RPM since it may use wrong file locations. The flash-player RPM in the non-oss repo is always installed correctly and since nspluginwrapper is available it also works in 64bit environments (not completely stable though but at least usable for me and apparently others).
for what it's worth, i just installed the 64-bit flash plugin into SLES 11, works fine. don't bother with packages -- grab the tarball from here:
http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html
open it up, and copy the single library file into /usr/lib64/browser-plugins/. kill all your running firefox instances, start again. to verify, browse to "about:plugins" and the flash plugin should be listed.
again, the above is for 64-bit. no need for ndiswrapper.
rday --
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Hi all, thanx for the replies. I installed the rpm; when it did not work, I afterward installed the tarball ; opened libflashplayer.so and copied it to /usr/lib64/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so (it was not there at all, but many others): In about:plugins I have ... Installed plugins Find more information about browser plugins at mozilla.org <https://pfs.mozilla.org/plugins/>. Help for installing plugins is available from plugindoc.mozdev.org <http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/>. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Default Plugin File name: libnullplugin.so The default plugin handles plugin data for mimetypes and extensions that are not specified and facilitates downloading of new plugins. MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled * All types .* No I even tried links: for only 32 bit libs: ln -sf /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so and then: in case 32 bit lib is searched for: ln -sf /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib64/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so in case a 64 bit lib is searched for: ln -sf /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib64/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so No JOY :-( Al -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wednesday 30 September 2009 06:11:24 Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
Hi,
Am 30.09.2009 10:10, schrieb LActive@GMX.Net:
It is a disaster! No normal user can solve the problem without CLI. Please supply a genuine fix, or sort out openSUSE's way of handling the problem in the future please, ... please, ...please!
Sorry to hear that you have issues but I think it's fine to say that it works out of the box for the majority of the users. What doesn't work in every case is to install the Adobe RPM since it may use wrong file locations. The flash-player RPM in the non-oss repo is always installed correctly and since nspluginwrapper is available it also works in 64bit environments (not completely stable though but at least usable for me and apparently others).
Wolfgang
I have the SAME problem on 2 different machines, one is 11.0 and one is 11.2-6, it fails on install, then says it's already installed. Mike. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 01 October 2009 02:07:27 am ka1ifq wrote:
I have the SAME problem on 2 different machines, one is 11.0 and one is 11.2-6, it fails on install, then says it's already installed. Mike.
which version of FF are you using, and where did you install FF & adobe flash from? -- phani. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wednesday 30 September 2009 16:30:26 phanisvara das wrote:
On Thursday 01 October 2009 02:07:27 am ka1ifq wrote:
I have the SAME problem on 2 different machines, one is 11.0 and one is 11.2-6, it fails on install, then says it's already installed. Mike.
which version of FF are you using, and where did you install FF & adobe flash from? -- phani.
The FF is the version installed with openSuse, any updates if done came from the openSuse repositories, same with flash if I remember. I am not super brave with adding from other repositories. My only outside program load was K3b from packman. Mike. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 01 October 2009 03:29:44 am ka1ifq wrote:
The FF is the version installed with openSuse, any updates if done came from the openSuse repositories, same with flash if I remember.
you wrote you had two systems, one 11.0, the other 11.2 (factory). i can't remember how things were with 11.0, but in factory (11.2) firefox & flash should definitely work. you sure you didn't follow the link provided by firefox when it tells you you have to install a plugin to view flash content? if you install firefox from the openSUSE oss repos, and flash from non-oss, it _should_ work. which repos do you have enabled on your 11.2 machine? if you're not sure, you can post the output of "zypper lr -u" here. -- phani. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 01 October 2009 03:29:44 am ka1ifq wrote:
I have the SAME problem on 2 different machines, one is 11.0 and one is 11.2-6, it fails on install, then says it's already installed.
if 11.2-6 refers to milestone 6, that's alredy pretty old. if it was my machine, i'd make sure that the correct repo.s are enabled: non-oss and oss from <http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/>, then do "zypper dup" from a root terminal. that way you'd get a proper M8 system. if you're not participating in the milestone testing cycle, you can run "zypper up" regularly to keep it up-to-date, and "zypper dup" when a new milestone comes up. (probably a good idea to follow the opensuse-factory mailing list; problems with new releases are often annunced there, so you can avoid updating when things may not work.) regarding your 11.0 system, i'd upgrade it to 11.1, since that's the current stable version and should have the least problems. -- phani. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wednesday 30 September 2009 03:10:55 am LActive@GMX.Net wrote:
Copying all the sugestions' /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so does nothing to help. Maunual installations of the *.tar.gz does not work either. There used to be a page on openSUSE at http://opensuse-community.org/Multimedia and http://opensuse-community.org/Restricted_Formats. No joy either. If you follow the hint to un-install all gstreamer packages, you come into a dependency hell. No normal user survives that! I got it to work for a short week until openSUSE destroyed it with an online update. How in the name of Hl can we attract normal users that will need flash player on almost all websites they use?
I have flash working. What was required was to download the latest rpm from adobe, then: mv /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/flash- plugin/libflashplayer.so.sav rpm -Uvh the.new.flash.rpm ln -sf /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/browser- plugins/libflashplayer.so Restart Firefox ;-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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