Re: [opensuse] Flash Player Plugin in Firefox still doesnt work - Mac OS X 10.x and Ubuntu always works.
- From: Bogdan Cristea <cristeab@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:15:30 +0300
On Wednesday 30 September 2009 11:10:55 LActive@xxxxxxx wrote:
Hi all,
The last 2 years or so there has been no real solution to the Firefox and
Adobe Flash Player installation fiasco on a x86_64 system. I have tried
all variants of installation found with search machines in the internet. I
recently installed a few Mac OSX 10.x (PPC & Int.) and Ubuntu systems.
None of them had the problems with Adobe's Flash Player. Why does openSUSE
still have the problem? I also have no problems with Konqueror and Flash
Player on openSUSE. I use it now for all flash requirements, even if a
newer version can not be installed as it suggests. Firefox works with
flash player in OSX and Ubuntu.
A normal user (which we try to attract to migrate to openSUSE), that gets
to a website with Firefox and is asked to install the plug-in, will have
to select it. It starts to install and then says "Installaton failed".
They do a manual installation from the link that is given to do it in the
firefox plug-in finder service. I select rpm and it installs dierctly with
the software installer. The software installer then reports that flash
plugin could not be installed. The rpm failure message is "already
installed".
Copying all the sugestions' /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so does
nothing to help. Maunual installations of the *.tar.gz does not work
either. There used to be a page on openSUSE at
http://opensuse-community.org/Multimedia and
http://opensuse-community.org/Restricted_Formats. No joy either. If you
follow the hint to un-install all gstreamer packages, you come into a
dependency hell. No normal user survives that! I got it to work for a
short week until openSUSE destroyed it with an online update. How in the
name of Hl can we attract normal users that will need flash player on
almost all websites they use?
It is a disaster! No normal user can solve the problem without CLI.
Please supply a genuine fix, or sort out openSUSE's way of handling the
problem in the future please, ... please, ...please!
:-(
Al
No problem here with adobe flash player. Here is the output of 'zypper se
flash':
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
S | Name | Summary
| Type
--+-----------------------+---------------------------------------------------+-----------
i | flash-player | Adobe Flash PlugIn and standalone Player
| package
| flash-player | Adobe Flash PlugIn and standalone Player
| srcpackage
i | flash-player | flash-player security update
| patch
i | libflashsupport | Additional support for Flash-based applications
| package
| libflashsupport-32bit | Additional support for Flash-based applications
| package
i | pullin-flash-player | Placeholder for Adobe Flash PlugIn
| package
| tvflash | Tool to manage Mellanox HCA firmware flash memory
| package
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