Re: Help with Flash
Marc Shapiro wrote:
> Mark Allums wrote:
>> Marc Shapiro wrote:
>>> Mark Allums wrote:
>>>> flashplugin-nonfree in Sid is working again. I don't think it has
>>>> any other Sid dependencies. Remember, if your internet connection
>>>> is not always-on, that it is just an installer, and it still needs
>>>> to download the player from Adobe.
>>>
>>> I've already installed Flash directly from the Adobe site, so the
>>> installer won't do anything for me. I thought that, with true
>>> Mozilla and Flash direct from Adobe, that Flash should work. I
>>> shouldn't need anything else. Unfortunately, it does not. Does
>>> anyone else have Flash working with Mozilla Firefox (not Iceweasel)?
>>>
>>
>> Try uninstalling everything flash-related, even swfdec, and so forth,
>> then installing Sid's flashplugin-nonfree.
>>
>> However, you may need to copy the plugin .so manually into the Firefox
>> plugin directory. If Iceweasel is installed, you can find it there.
>>
>> Installing the Adobe way has never worked for me. I have always
>> needed the Debian way.
>
> All the installer does is download and unpack the file from adobe and
> copy it to the appropriate directories. I already have the new
> libflashplayer.so and I have it in /usr/local/lib/firefox/plugins/
> Firefox recognizes that it is installed and starts to load the flash
> video. Then it hangs. Using the installer from Sid will simply
> download another copy of the file and place it in a directory that is
> incorrect for me, so that I can copy it to where it already is. I have
> already downloaded the .deb for Ubuntu from the Adobe site, thinking
> that maybe there was a problem with the .tar.gz file, but I get the same
> results. I don't see where having the Sid installer download the same
> ..tar.gz file that I already have is going to make a difference.
>
Hi,
maybe have a look at /etc/alternatives to see if you have a link that
can confuse things, and look at flashplayer-mozilla dependencies to see
if you're missing something.
Tom
(sorry if I sent an empty message earlier, clumsy fingers doing to many
things at one time for a Sunday...)
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