Flash Player will not work

[BobbyS]

Hello,


I have installed the flash plugin-nonfree but it does not work. I have purged it and reinstalled it but to no avail. It will not show up in the addon> plug-ins

Does anyone have any clues as to what I might try?

Thanks, greatly appreciated!
BobbyS

[flarson]

Re: Flash Player will not work

I just found that my installation of flashplugin-nonfree was no longer working. It had downloaded the installer to /var/cache/flashplugin-nonfree/install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz. That contains libflashplayer.so. Put the tar.gz somewhere like your home directory and run
tar zxvf install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz
This will create a directory install_flash_player_10_linux/ that contains the plugin. Now you need to get the plugin to the appropriate plugins directory.
The options are
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
/usr/lib/firefox/plugins/
/usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins/
or if you use swiftfox
/usr/lib/swiftfox/plugins

Probably your best choice is
sudo cp install_flash_player_10_linux/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
and then if you want it in other places create symlinks. For instance
cd /usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins/
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so libflashplayer.so

Restart firefox and it should be there.

[BobbyS]

Re: Flash Player will not work

Thanks Mando,

I tried what you suggested but it is still not working. I cannot see it in tools>addons>plugin

I can go to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ and see libflashplayer.so there though. This is crazy!


Thanks,
BobbyS

[flarson]

Re: Flash Player will not work

Try some of the other plugins directories. If you are using firefox, create the link in /usr/lib/firefox/plugins. If you are using Iceweasel try /usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins/.

[BobbyS]

Re: Flash Player will not work

Thanks, I tried that too with no success. I can see libflashplayer.so in:
/usr/lib/firefox/plugins
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
/usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/

but it won't work and I still cannot see it in tools>addons>plugins

it's nuts isn't it?

Thanks
BobbyS