2:56 a.m.
People keep sending me links to videos and then when I click on them
Firefox says
that the video won't play since I don't have flash installed. But then
when I click
on the installer I (eventually) get messages to the effect that the
required package
is already installed.
If I click on Tools -> Addons -> Plugins I get messages to the effect
that I don't
"have any plugins of this type installed". (***WHAT*** <expletive
deleted> type?
I never mentioned any "type"!!!
I've googled around quite a bit and any suggestion that I've found was
of no use
whatever. (I.e. I keep getting the same message that I don't have flash
installed.)
WTF do I have to do? Is the problem the fact that I am still running
Fedora 17?
(I have not upgraded since everything except the flash business seems to
be running
smoothly, and I don't want to get into an incomprehensible upgrade
hassle unless
I absolutely have to.)
Grateful for any suggestions and/or advice.
cheers,
Rolf Turner
2:58 a.m.
On Tue, 24 Dec 2013 21:56:22 +1300
Rolf Turner <r.turner(a)auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
People keep sending me links to videos and then when I click on
them Firefox says that the video won't play since I don't have
flash installed. But then when I click on the installer I
(eventually) get messages to the effect that the required package
is already installed.
Adobe have stopped updating flash for Linux.
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Frank
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3 a.m.
On 24/12/13 21:58, Frank Murphy wrote:
On Tue, 24 Dec 2013 21:56:22 +1300
Rolf Turner <r.turner(a)auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
> People keep sending me links to videos and then when I click on
> them Firefox says that the video won't play since I don't have
> flash installed. But then when I click on the installer I
> (eventually) get messages to the effect that the required package
> is already installed.
>
>
Adobe have stopped updating flash for Linux.
So is there anything that I can do so as to be able to watch such videos?
cheers,
Rolf Turner
12:24 p.m.
On Tue, 24 Dec 2013 22:00:27 +1300
Rolf Turner <r.turner(a)auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
On 24/12/13 21:58, Frank Murphy wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Dec 2013 21:56:22 +1300
> Rolf Turner <r.turner(a)auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
>
>> People keep sending me links to videos and then when I click on
>> them Firefox says that the video won't play since I don't have
>> flash installed. But then when I click on the installer I
>> (eventually) get messages to the effect that the required package
>> is already installed.
>>
>>
> Adobe have stopped updating flash for Linux.
So is there anything that I can do so as to be able to watch such
videos?
cheers,
Rolf Turner
I had to do this:
sudo ln
-s /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins
when i ran into this problem.
Peter Reed
3:56 p.m.
On 26/12/13 07:24, Peter Reed wrote:
<SNIP>
I had to do this:
sudo ln
-s /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins
when i ran into this problem.
Thanks but that's not the problem. I had a look and that symbolic link
is already in place.
cheers,
Rolf Turner
4:13 p.m.
On 12/25/2013 4:56 PM, Rolf Turner wrote:
On 26/12/13 07:24, Peter Reed wrote:
<SNIP>
>
> I had to do this:
> sudo ln
> -s /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins
> when i ran into this problem.
Thanks but that's not the problem. I had a look and that symbolic link
is already in place.
cheers,
Rolf Turner
Simple way:
Adobe Flash Player 11.2 on Fedora 20/19, CentOS/RHEL 6.5/5.10
<http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2010/install-adobe-flash-player-10-...
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David
4:48 a.m.
On 12/24/2013 04:58 PM, Frank Murphy wrote:
On Tue, 24 Dec 2013 21:56:22 +1300
Rolf Turner <r.turner(a)auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
> People keep sending me links to videos and then when I click on
> them Firefox says that the video won't play since I don't have
> flash installed. But then when I click on the installer I
> (eventually) get messages to the effect that the required package
> is already installed.
>
>
Adobe have stopped updating flash for Linux.
Yes and no. They have stopped
enhancing it, but they are still bug
fixing, especially for security issues. The latest update RPM on my
Fedora 19 boxes is less than a month old.
That said, flash is on its way out. If you consider they have withdrawn
flash from the largest single media platform on the planet - Android -
its obviously going through a near death experience. Its just a pity so
many web site are super slow at reworking their platform to feed us
video in other ways.
Steve
3:14 a.m.
On Tue, 2013-12-24 at 21:56 +1300, Rolf Turner wrote:
[Looking for Flash Player]
Grateful for any suggestions and/or advice.
Googling didn't turn this up?
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flash
cheers,
Rolf Turner
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
3:25 p.m.
On 24/12/13 22:14, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
On Tue, 2013-12-24 at 21:56 +1300, Rolf Turner wrote:
[Looking for Flash Player]
> Grateful for any suggestions and/or advice.
Googling didn't turn this up?
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flash
Well, not as such. Googling turns up (as
always) several million things
and that
one was not, uh, prominent. After looking through the first half dozen
or so hits,
I gave up.
That being said, thanks for pointing out that site to me.
***That*** being said, it still doesn't work. I followed the
instructions to the letter.
(1)
sudo yum install
http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.n... -y
This gave:
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm | 4.2 kB
00:00
Examining
/var/tmp/yum-root-mliVX0/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm:
adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch
/var/tmp/yum-root-mliVX0/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm: does
not update installed package.
Error: Nothing to do
Which is pretty much as I expected, given that I had installed the
damned thing already.
(2)
sudo rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linuxThi
This produced no response at all --- no error message, but neither was
there any
indication of success.
(3)
sudo yum install flash-plugin -y
This produced a bunch of boiler-plate and finally:
Package flash-plugin-11.2.202.332-release.x86_64 already installed
and
latest version
Nothing to do
So it would *appear* that everything was already in place as it
should
be. But then:
(4)
Type the following text in the Firefox address bar:
about:plugins
When I did that I got:
No installed plugins found
I must be missing some key element in my set-up, but I have no idea what.
Can anyone enlighten me? Grateful for any advice.
cheers,
Rolf Turner
P. S. It was suggested that I try Google Chrome. I did that, and under
Google Chrome,
flash does indeed work and I can play the videos from the links that I
was sent.
Nevertheless I would rather stick with using Firefox (the devil I know)
and I would like
to understand just *why* flash is refusing to work under Firefox. As I
said, I would
appreciate enlightenment!
R. T.
3:40 p.m.
... snip ...
i've started keeping my own fedora 20 HOWTO page, and here's my
snippet on getting flash to work:
http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/F20#Flash
i followed the instructions on the linked-to page and it just worked.
don't forget that you have to completely close firefox and restart it.
rday
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3:52 p.m.
On 26/12/13 10:40, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
... snip ...
i've started keeping my own fedora 20 HOWTO page, and here's my
snippet on getting flash to work:
http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/F20#Flash
i followed the instructions on the linked-to page and it just worked.
don't forget that you have to completely close firefox and restart it.
rday
Couldn't get to the link indicated above; the wheel of death just spun
and spun.
I did close Firefox and re-start; did it again just to make sure. Same
result.
I am not using Fedora 20. I am still running the antediluvian Fedora 17
(not having worked up the nerve to upgrade ...). Could that be the problem?
Do I need to upgrade (to Fedora 18? 19? 20?) before flash will work? Why?
cheers,
Rolf Turner
3:58 p.m.
Sorry for top posting but this phone doesn't allow bottom posting.
I too use F17. What I did was download the rpm from adobe and used rpm to install. Flash
works just fine except on cp24.com of the sites I visit that requires flash.
Yum complains but still works and hasn't caused problems.
Dave
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From: Rolf Turner <r.turner(a)auckland.ac.nz>
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Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2013 10:52:56
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Subject: Re: Possibly OT --- Adobe flash player; how to get it to run?
On 26/12/13 10:40, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
... snip ...
i've started keeping my own fedora 20 HOWTO page, and here's my
snippet on getting flash to work:
http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/F20#Flash
i followed the instructions on the linked-to page and it just worked.
don't forget that you have to completely close firefox and restart it.
rday
Couldn't get to the link indicated above; the wheel of death just spun
and spun.
I did close Firefox and re-start; did it again just to make sure. Same
result.
I am not using Fedora 20. I am still running the antediluvian Fedora 17
(not having worked up the nerve to upgrade ...). Could that be the problem?
Do I need to upgrade (to Fedora 18? 19? 20?) before flash will work? Why?
cheers,
Rolf Turner
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4:11 p.m.
On 26/12/13 10:58, davidschaak1(a)mobilicity.blackberry.com wrote:
Sorry for top posting but this phone doesn't allow bottom
posting.
I too use F17. What I did was download the rpm from adobe and used rpm to install. Flash
works just fine except on cp24.com of the sites I visit that requires flash.
Yum complains but still works and hasn't caused problems.
<SNIP>
I downloaded the rpm and did:
sudo rpm -ivh flash-plugin-11.2.202.332-release.x86_64.rpm
I got (not too surprisingly):
package flash-plugin-11.2.202.332-release.x86_64 is already installed
Thanks anyway..
cheers,
Rolf Turner
4:18 p.m.
On 25.12.2013, Heinz Diehl wrote:
1. Download the latest Flash plugin
http://get.adobe.com/de/flashplayer/
You choose the .tar.gz archive.
4:53 p.m.
On 26/12/13 11:16, Heinz Diehl wrote:
On 24.12.2013, Rolf Turner wrote:
> WTF do I have to do?
1. Download the latest Flash plugin
2. Copy "libflashplayer.so" to ~/.mozilla/plugins
3. Restart Firefox
You're done.
And later added:
1. Download the latest Flash plugin
http://get.adobe.com/de/flashplayer/
You choose the .tar.gz archive.
Yesssss!!!! It worked. Thank you hugely.
cheers,
Rolf Turner
P. S. Surely there should be something in the instructions or mechanism for
installing flash to the effect that libflashplayer.so (or a copy
thereof) has to
be placed in the user's "private" plugins directory ~/.mozilla/plugins.
There seems to be a gap here that could very easily be filled.
OTOH this appears only to have affected ***me***. What is different about
my system? This is basically of academic interest at the moment, since I've
got things working, but it could be of practical interest sometime in
the future.
R. T.
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