On my FC5 system, libflashplayer.so sits in /usr/lib/flash-plugin.
There's a symlink to it from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
and flash shows up in the plug-ins list w/in mozilla.
However, if I rename
/usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
to
/usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so_fp7.0.68
and then create a symlink to it in the /usr/lib/flash-plugin directory:
libflashplayer.so -> libflashplayer.so_fp7.0.68
and restart mozilla, it no longer sees the flash player plugin.
This seems strange since mozilla is already going through one symlink
(from its own directory to /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so)
so why does a second link break flash? Creating a hard link works fine.
I'm sure this is something basic, but I'm not seeing it.
Dean
P.S.
Yes, I restarting mozilla each time, and
yes, I deleted ~/.mozilla/pluginreg.dat each time
(I have mozplugger installed), and
yes, I checked to make sure I can see the .so executable from the
link in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins.
½:-)
