[users] 64 bit flash-plugin and 64 bit Firefox question

[Todd And Margo Chester]

Hi All,

SL6.0 x64
Firefox 4.0.1 64 bit binary from ftp.mozilla.org
http://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/dag/redhat/el6/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS/flash-plugin-10.3.162.29-0.1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm

I have been Googling my butt off trying to figure out how
to get rpmforge's 64 bit flash plugin to work with my 64
bit Firefox. There are lots of articles but nothing works.

So, not ask too stupid a question and face the slings and
arrows of such, but how does one get rpmforge's 64 bit
flash-plugin to work with 64 bit Firefox?

Many thanks,
-T

[Bill McGonigle]

Post by Todd And Margo Chester
So, not ask too stupid a question and face the slings and
arrows of such, but how does one get rpmforge's 64 bit
flash-plugin to work with 64 bit Firefox?

This is rather generic, I don't have your combination of versions, but on my machines I have a symlink:

lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 41 May 13 11:20 /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so -> /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so

which seems to do the trick.

-Bill

[Todd And Margo Chester]

Post by Todd And Margo Chester
So, not ask too stupid a question and face the slings and
arrows of such, but how does one get rpmforge's 64 bit
flash-plugin to work with 64 bit Firefox?

lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 41 May 13 11:20 /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so -> /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
which seems to do the trick.
-Bill

Hi Bill,

I tried both the link and the actual code. Got ignored by both. The
nspluginwrapper
(may have that mis-spelled) thing did not help either. It is like FF is
ignoring everything
in /usr/lib64/mozilla.

:'(

What edition/whose edition of Firefox are you using?

Many thanks,
-T

[John Beranek]

Post by Todd And Margo Chester
I tried both the link and the actual code. Got ignored by both. The
nspluginwrapper
(may have that mis-spelled) thing did not help either. It is like FF is
ignoring everything
in /usr/lib64/mozilla.

If you're just using a binary from ftp.mozilla.org the plugin/symlink
will have to be in a "plugins" directory in the tree extracted from the
tarball.

John
--
John Beranek To generalise is to be an idiot.
http://redux.org.uk/ -- William Blake

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[Todd And Margo Chester]

Post by John Beranek

Post by Todd And Margo Chester
I tried both the link and the actual code. Got ignored by both. The
nspluginwrapper
(may have that mis-spelled) thing did not help either. It is like FF is
ignoring everything
in /usr/lib64/mozilla.

If you're just using a binary from ftp.mozilla.org the plugin/symlink
will have to be in a "plugins" directory in the tree extracted from the
tarball.
John

Taking a look at the tar ball with file roller, I see a "searchplugin"
but no
"plugin" directory :'(

-T

[Todd And Margo Chester]

Post by John Beranek

Post by Todd And Margo Chester
I tried both the link and the actual code. Got ignored by both. The
nspluginwrapper
(may have that mis-spelled) thing did not help either. It is like FF is
ignoring everything
in /usr/lib64/mozilla.

If you're just using a binary from ftp.mozilla.org the plugin/symlink
will have to be in a "plugins" directory in the tree extracted from the
tarball.
John

Taking a look at the tar ball with file roller, I see a "searchplugin"
but no
"plugin" directory :'(

-T

[Bill McGonigle]

Post by Todd And Margo Chester
It is like FF is
ignoring everything
in /usr/lib64/mozilla.

You're restarting Firefox, right? Completely quit, make sure there are
no ghosts with 'ps ax', etc?

Post by Todd And Margo Chester
What edition/whose edition of Firefox are you using?

firefox-3.6.17-1.fc14.x86_64
flash-plugin-10.3.162.29-2.x86_64

-Bill

[Todd And Margo Chester]

Post by Bill McGonigle

Post by Todd And Margo Chester
It is like FF is
ignoring everything
in /usr/lib64/mozilla.

You're restarting Firefox, right? Completely quit, make sure there
are no ghosts with 'ps ax', etc?

Reboot brought no joy.

Post by Bill McGonigle

Post by Todd And Margo Chester
What edition/whose edition of Firefox are you using?

firefox-3.6.17-1.fc14.x86_64
flash-plugin-10.3.162.29-2.x86_64
-Bill

FC 14 worked? I was thinking of trying this guy's repo:

http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/leigh123linux/firefox4/epel-6/$basearch/

Maybe it will be easier to get updates than FC14. I will try
FC14 if I do not get the above to work.

Thank you!

-T
p.s. I can not get acrobat reader plugin to work either, if that
is a clue.

[Todd And Margo Chester]

Post by Bill McGonigle

Post by Todd And Margo Chester
It is like FF is
ignoring everything
in /usr/lib64/mozilla.

You're restarting Firefox, right? Completely quit, make sure there
are no ghosts with 'ps ax', etc?

Reboot brought no joy.

Post by Bill McGonigle

Post by Todd And Margo Chester
What edition/whose edition of Firefox are you using?

firefox-3.6.17-1.fc14.x86_64
flash-plugin-10.3.162.29-2.x86_64
-Bill

FC 14 worked? I was thinking of trying this guy's repo:

http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/leigh123linux/firefox4/epel-6/$basearch/

Maybe it will be easier to get updates than FC14. I will try
FC14 if I do not get the above to work.

Thank you!

-T
p.s. I can not get acrobat reader plugin to work either, if that
is a clue.

[Dag Wieers]

Post by Todd And Margo Chester

Post by Todd And Margo Chester
So, not ask too stupid a question and face the slings and
arrows of such, but how does one get rpmforge's 64 bit
flash-plugin to work with 64 bit Firefox?

lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 41 May 13 11:20 /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so -> /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
which seems to do the trick.

I tried both the link and the actual code. Got ignored by both. The
nspluginwrapper
(may have that mis-spelled) thing did not help either. It is like FF is
ignoring everything
in /usr/lib64/mozilla.
:'(
What edition/whose edition of Firefox are you using?

Normally, you simply have to install the package and it should work.
Unless you have done manual modifications (eg. added some other plugin(s)
in your home directory or other locations).

The RPM package ships with a tool called
'/usr/lib/flash-plugin/homecleanup' and a tool called
'/usr/lib/flash-plugin/setup'. You could try running those, but they may
not 'undo' whatever modifications you did by hand.

You may want to look at all the various Firefox and Mozilla plugin
directories and remove anything already there. Then reinstall the RPM
package and optionally re-run homecleanup and/or setup.

Hope that helps ?

[Philip Durbin]

Post by Dag Wieers
Normally, you simply have to install the package and it should work.
Unless you have done manual modifications (eg. added some other plugin(s)
in your home directory or other locations).

This has been my experience. Repoforge's
flash-plugin-10.3.162.29-0.1.el6.rf.x86_64, for example, "just works"
with firefox-3.6.17-1.el6_0.x86_64 on RHEL6.

I prefer this to the i686 flash-plugin that is provided in RHEL.

Phil

[Todd And Margo Chester]

Post by Dag Wieers

Post by Todd And Margo Chester

Post by Todd And Margo Chester
So, not ask too stupid a question and face the slings and
arrows of such, but how does one get rpmforge's 64 bit
flash-plugin to work with 64 bit Firefox?

lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 41 May 13 11:20 /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so -> /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
which seems to do the trick.

I tried both the link and the actual code. Got ignored by both. The
nspluginwrapper
(may have that mis-spelled) thing did not help either. It is like FF is
ignoring everything
in /usr/lib64/mozilla.
:'(
What edition/whose edition of Firefox are you using?

Normally, you simply have to install the package and it should work.
Unless you have done manual modifications (eg. added some other plugin(s)
in your home directory or other locations).
The RPM package ships with a tool called
'/usr/lib/flash-plugin/homecleanup' and a tool called
'/usr/lib/flash-plugin/setup'. You could try running those, but they may
not 'undo' whatever modifications you did by hand.
You may want to look at all the various Firefox and Mozilla plugin
directories and remove anything already there. Then reinstall the RPM
package and optionally re-run homecleanup and/or setup.
Hope that helps ?

Hi All,

I switched from mozilla.org's binary package to
http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/leigh123linux/firefox4/
and flash woke up. And so did Java and Acrobat Reader.

I did notice that when I yum'ed fedorapeople's package, I
got 16 additional dependencies.

Before I completely got rid of the Mozilla.com's binary, I
tried running it in parallel with fedorapeople's. Mozilla's still
did not catch the plugins.

Thank you all for the help! Mystery solved.

-T

[Dag Wieers]

Post by Todd And Margo Chester
Thank you all for the help! Mystery solved.

I'd rather say, mystery diverted as we don't know the root-cause :)

Still I am happy for you that flash is working again.

[Yury V. Zaytsev]

Post by Dag Wieers
I'd rather say, mystery diverted as we don't know the root-cause :)

Well, I don't think it's worth it to go until the very end in finding
out the root cause for sure, since it seems rather obvious that Mozilla
binary builds are just looking for plugins at different places and if
one is not using a distro-specific build, he/she needs to be prepared
for stracing / ltracing in case if things are going wrong.

I do share your enjoyment that the problem is practically solved,
however ;-)

[Yury V. Zaytsev]

Post by Dag Wieers
I'd rather say, mystery diverted as we don't know the root-cause :)

Well, I don't think it's worth it to go until the very end in finding
out the root cause for sure, since it seems rather obvious that Mozilla
binary builds are just looking for plugins at different places and if
one is not using a distro-specific build, he/she needs to be prepared
for stracing / ltracing in case if things are going wrong.

I do share your enjoyment that the problem is practically solved,
however ;-)

[Dag Wieers]

Post by Todd And Margo Chester
Thank you all for the help! Mystery solved.

I'd rather say, mystery diverted as we don't know the root-cause :)

Still I am happy for you that flash is working again.

[Philip Durbin]

Post by Dag Wieers
Normally, you simply have to install the package and it should work.
Unless you have done manual modifications (eg. added some other plugin(s)
in your home directory or other locations).

This has been my experience. Repoforge's
flash-plugin-10.3.162.29-0.1.el6.rf.x86_64, for example, "just works"
with firefox-3.6.17-1.el6_0.x86_64 on RHEL6.

I prefer this to the i686 flash-plugin that is provided in RHEL.

Phil

[Todd And Margo Chester]

Post by Dag Wieers

Post by Todd And Margo Chester

Post by Todd And Margo Chester
So, not ask too stupid a question and face the slings and
arrows of such, but how does one get rpmforge's 64 bit
flash-plugin to work with 64 bit Firefox?

lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 41 May 13 11:20 /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so -> /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
which seems to do the trick.

I tried both the link and the actual code. Got ignored by both. The
nspluginwrapper
(may have that mis-spelled) thing did not help either. It is like FF is
ignoring everything
in /usr/lib64/mozilla.
:'(
What edition/whose edition of Firefox are you using?

Normally, you simply have to install the package and it should work.
Unless you have done manual modifications (eg. added some other plugin(s)
in your home directory or other locations).
The RPM package ships with a tool called
'/usr/lib/flash-plugin/homecleanup' and a tool called
'/usr/lib/flash-plugin/setup'. You could try running those, but they may
not 'undo' whatever modifications you did by hand.
You may want to look at all the various Firefox and Mozilla plugin
directories and remove anything already there. Then reinstall the RPM
package and optionally re-run homecleanup and/or setup.
Hope that helps ?

Hi All,

I switched from mozilla.org's binary package to
http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/leigh123linux/firefox4/
and flash woke up. And so did Java and Acrobat Reader.

I did notice that when I yum'ed fedorapeople's package, I
got 16 additional dependencies.

Before I completely got rid of the Mozilla.com's binary, I
tried running it in parallel with fedorapeople's. Mozilla's still
did not catch the plugins.

Thank you all for the help! Mystery solved.

-T

[Yury V. Zaytsev]

I tried both the link and the actual code. Got ignored by both. The
nspluginwrapper (may have that mis-spelled) thing did not help either.
It is like FF is ignoring everything in /usr/lib64/mozilla.

I am not claiming that it is indeed the case in this particular
instance, but this is exactly the sort of problems that could occur when
mixing packages from different channels and unpackaged binaries etc.

[John Beranek]

Post by Todd And Margo Chester
I tried both the link and the actual code. Got ignored by both. The
nspluginwrapper
(may have that mis-spelled) thing did not help either. It is like FF is
ignoring everything
in /usr/lib64/mozilla.

If you're just using a binary from ftp.mozilla.org the plugin/symlink
will have to be in a "plugins" directory in the tree extracted from the
tarball.

John
--
John Beranek To generalise is to be an idiot.
http://redux.org.uk/ -- William Blake

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[Bill McGonigle]

Post by Todd And Margo Chester
It is like FF is
ignoring everything
in /usr/lib64/mozilla.

You're restarting Firefox, right? Completely quit, make sure there are
no ghosts with 'ps ax', etc?

Post by Todd And Margo Chester
What edition/whose edition of Firefox are you using?

firefox-3.6.17-1.fc14.x86_64
flash-plugin-10.3.162.29-2.x86_64

-Bill

[Dag Wieers]

Post by Todd And Margo Chester

Post by Todd And Margo Chester
So, not ask too stupid a question and face the slings and
arrows of such, but how does one get rpmforge's 64 bit
flash-plugin to work with 64 bit Firefox?

lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 41 May 13 11:20 /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so -> /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
which seems to do the trick.

I tried both the link and the actual code. Got ignored by both. The
nspluginwrapper
(may have that mis-spelled) thing did not help either. It is like FF is
ignoring everything
in /usr/lib64/mozilla.
:'(
What edition/whose edition of Firefox are you using?

Normally, you simply have to install the package and it should work.
Unless you have done manual modifications (eg. added some other plugin(s)
in your home directory or other locations).

The RPM package ships with a tool called
'/usr/lib/flash-plugin/homecleanup' and a tool called
'/usr/lib/flash-plugin/setup'. You could try running those, but they may
not 'undo' whatever modifications you did by hand.

You may want to look at all the various Firefox and Mozilla plugin
directories and remove anything already there. Then reinstall the RPM
package and optionally re-run homecleanup and/or setup.

Hope that helps ?

[Yury V. Zaytsev]

I tried both the link and the actual code. Got ignored by both. The
nspluginwrapper (may have that mis-spelled) thing did not help either.
It is like FF is ignoring everything in /usr/lib64/mozilla.

I am not claiming that it is indeed the case in this particular
instance, but this is exactly the sort of problems that could occur when
mixing packages from different channels and unpackaged binaries etc.

[Todd And Margo Chester]

Post by Todd And Margo Chester
So, not ask too stupid a question and face the slings and
arrows of such, but how does one get rpmforge's 64 bit
flash-plugin to work with 64 bit Firefox?

lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 41 May 13 11:20 /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so -> /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
which seems to do the trick.
-Bill

Hi Bill,

I tried both the link and the actual code. Got ignored by both. The
nspluginwrapper
(may have that mis-spelled) thing did not help either. It is like FF is
ignoring everything
in /usr/lib64/mozilla.

:'(

What edition/whose edition of Firefox are you using?

Many thanks,
-T

[Todd And Margo Chester]

Hi All,

SL6.0 x64
Firefox 4.0.1 64 bit binary from ftp.mozilla.org
http://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/dag/redhat/el6/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS/flash-plugin-10.3.162.29-0.1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm

I have been Googling my butt off trying to figure out how
to get rpmforge's 64 bit flash plugin to work with my 64
bit Firefox. There are lots of articles but nothing works.

So, not ask too stupid a question and face the slings and
arrows of such, but how does one get rpmforge's 64 bit
flash-plugin to work with 64 bit Firefox?

Many thanks,
-T

[Bill McGonigle]

Post by Todd And Margo Chester
So, not ask too stupid a question and face the slings and
arrows of such, but how does one get rpmforge's 64 bit
flash-plugin to work with 64 bit Firefox?

This is rather generic, I don't have your combination of versions, but on my machines I have a symlink:

lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 41 May 13 11:20 /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so -> /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so

which seems to do the trick.

-Bill