[tclug-list] Using Adobe Flash and Shockwave on Fedora 64

[bryan.zimmer at hotmail.com]

Hi. Thanks for the response. I put libflashplayer.so in 
/home/[user]/.mozilla/plugins, and went to tpt.org using Firefox. The page 
still told me I need a plugin. "Click here to download plugin". I clicked 
and chose the "rpm" version to download. I then opened it from its install 
folder and opened it with rpm, which asked twice for the root password, but 
when it was done, the page still said "Click here to download plugin"...


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From: "Paul Cutler" <pcutler at gnome.org>
Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 9:51 AM
To: <bryan.zimmer at hotmail.com>
Cc: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org>
Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Using Adobe Flash and Shockwave on Fedora 64

> Bryan,
>
> On 01/18/2010 03:00 PM, bryan.zimmer at hotmail.com wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> I admit, I haven't methodically searched all archives for an answer to 
>> this,
>> but maybe someone can tell me:
>>
>> I have tried to use my browser (Opera) to access certain sites in Fedora
>> (9,10,11,12), but more and more often am told that the site requires 
>> Adobe
>> plug-ins like shockwave and flashplayer. My machine runs 64-bit x86_64
>> Fedora.
>>
>> I have downloaded libflashplayer.so, understood to be a 32-bit library, 
>> but
>> I am at a loss as far as where to put libflashplayer.so in the 
>> filesystem. I
>> have tried various locations, such as /lib/mozilla/plug-ins, and
>> /us/lib/opera/plug-ins and extensions.
>>
>> I don't know whether the 32-bit library is just ignored by the 64-bit
>> system, or whether I should place them in the 64 bit library path (i.e.,
>> /usr/lib64/...).
>>
>> Seems to me that I tried those 64-bit locations, which is somewhat weird
>> because the library is still 32-bit.
>>
>> Am I on a wild goose chase, or is there a way to make this work?
>>
>> Bryan Z.
>>
>> bryan dot Zimmer at
>>     hotmail.com
>>
>
> I can't speak for Opera, but on Fedora 12 x86_64 with Firefox and
> Chrome, I use Adobe Flash 10.  Download the file[1], extract it and put
> libflashplayer.so in /home/user/.mozilla/plugins and it works for me.
>
> Paul
>
>