Re: Installing Adobe Flash Player in F14

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On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I am using the version
>>
>> 10.2.161.0
>>
>> of flash, and I am noticing that it crashes often inside Firefox on a
>> 64 bits machine running F14, specially at the following site:
>>
>> http://translate.google.com/translate_t
>
> You either need to install the 64bit plugin which is not available as
> a RPM (except by some third parties) or yum repo. It has to be
> installed manually. Google "linux flash player square".
>
> You'll have to copy the libflashplayer.so file in the archive to a
> directory, I usually put it in "/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins" so it is
> available to everyone, not just me.
>
> Then as root run "mozilla-plugin-config -i"
> You can run "mozilla-plugin-config -l" to see if it was sucessful.
> Look for something like:
>
> /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/nswrapper_64_64.libflashplayer.so
>  Original plugin: /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
>  Wrapper version string: X (1.3.0)
>
> and you should be good to go. You can open firefox or chrome and type
> "about:plugins" for the url just to be sure.
>
> If you want to use the 32bit plugin there's more work to do. You have
> to install the i686 version of nspluginwrapper, but then you can use
> the adobe yum repo and get updates automatically.

Thanks, Richard, it seems to be a known issue:

https://groups.google.com/group/google-translate-general/browse_thread/thread/8d0957638b2b6792?pli=1

Paul
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