Re: Getting flash to work in firefox

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Jaap Haitsma wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I installed the flash plugin from macromedia for firefox/mozilla, but 
> I get an error during startup.
>
> LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library 
> /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so 
> [libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such 
> file or directory]
>
> I've got the libc6 and libstdc++5 packages installed. I only do not 
> see libc6.2-2.so.3 anywhere on my system.
>
> So what should I do to get it working?


I vaguely recall something about a broken flash; I can't remember the 
details, nor the URL for downloading the fix, but I do have the tarball 
if you need it.

Not wanting to leave you without the fix, and not wanting to attach the 
tarball, the contents of the tarball are provided below.

So just copy the contents of flashfix.c into a file named flashfix.c; 
copy the contents of Makefile into a file named Makefile. Then run 
"make". Copy the resulting executable to your plugin directory and run 
it there. Restart your browser; BING! You're in business (hopefully).


westk[@westkent]:/home/westk/tmp/flashfix-1.0:> ls -l
total 32
-rw-r--r--    1 westk    westk        5519 2004-01-19 12:47 flashfix.c
-rw-r--r--    1 westk    westk       18009 2004-01-19 12:33 gpl.txt
-rw-r--r--    1 westk    westk          98 2004-01-19 12:50 Makefile

The code:
====

/*
  flashfix.c by Toby Corkindale
  Copyright (c) 2004 by Toby Corkindale, all rights reserved.

  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
  modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
  as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
  of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  GNU General Public License for more details.
  (Available in gpl.txt along with this source file.)

  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
  Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  
02111-1307, USA.

  To contact the author, email: flashfix (at) corkindale (dot) net
*/


#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <errno.h>

// Globals:
char *FILENAME = "libflashplayer.so";
off_t   OFFSET = 0x0002f8b6;

// prototypes:
void display_intro();
int check_version(int fd);
int copy_files(int in, int out);
int fix_file(int fd);


int main()
{
   int infd, outfd;


The Makefile
====
CFLAGS=-O -Wall

all: flashfix

flashfix: flashfix.c Makefile
       $(CC) -o $@ $< $(CFLAGS)
       strip $@


And the first few lines of the gpl.txt, which should be sufficient for 
finding the full copy if needed.
====
                   GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
                      Version 2, June 1991

Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
                      59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  
02111-1307  USA
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.