[mdlug] Problems with the flash plug in install files

[R. Kannan]

The distro on the machine is SuSE.

First I checked the version of the plugin. The plugin version for the flash player shows up in 'about:plugins' as '10.0 r15' whereas the Adobe site where I downloaded shows 10.0.45.2 as the latest version that can be downloaded. Not sure why the instructions are so wrong.

Then I found here were two different libflashplayer.so files on the machine. The link

/usr/lib/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so is a link that points to /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so which was updated when I installed.

There is also /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so which was older. I updated that file and now about:plugins shows the version as '10.0 r45' but youtube still complains :-(

Thanks for your help.



-----Original Message-----
>From: Jeff Hanson <jhansonxi at gmail.com>
>Sent: Feb 24, 2010 9:52 PM
>To: "R. Kannan" <rkannan at peoplepc.com>, MDLUG's Main discussion list <mdlug at mdlug.org>
>Subject: Re: [mdlug] Problems with the flash plug in install files
>
>On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 9:43 PM, R. Kannan <rkannan at peoplepc.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I tried installing the latest flash plugin from install files at adobe site (as youtube seems to require the latest flash plugin now). First I tried the rpm version. It updated the following file
>>
>> /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
>>
>> with a new version with the datestamp 1/26/2010. This file is the target of the link from firefox/plugins directory.I restarted the browser again. No cigar with youtube.
>>
>> Next I tried the tar.gz file. Unzipping the file produced the same file with the same size/datestamp as above. It did not create a directory as given in the instructions at the Adobe site. Still no luck with youtube which keeps directing me to the adobe site.
>>
>
>Which distro?
>See if it shows up in Firefox by going to address: about:plugins


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