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leetstalker

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Registered: 2009-12-23

Posts: 15

[SOLVED] can't get flash to work

First i tried copying the flashplayer.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins dir, but it didnt exists yet, so i did a searh and i found. This http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ins … bit_System  tried installing nspluginwrapper but it didnt work after restarting firefox. Tried manually installing the flashplater.so files again, since there was a dir there. Tried pacman -S flashplugin after i found that to be the most up to date way. None of this has worked, any ideas? I installed the 10.0.42.34 version. I never restarted anything other than firefox either. Thanx for any help.

Last edited by leetstalker (2009-12-23 08:20:13)

munkyeetr

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From: Merritt, BC

Registered: 2008-08-07

Posts: 83

Re: [SOLVED] can't get flash to work

EDIT: sorry, missed that in the first read through...

pacman -S flashplugin

Last edited by munkyeetr (2009-12-23 06:28:58)

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leetstalker

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Registered: 2009-12-23

Posts: 15

Re: [SOLVED] can't get flash to work

Yes, sorry about the editing, i just spent 10 minutes looking for the edit buttons and then the submit buttons, my new style made them invisible:P . I had a thought though. Before i installed gnome i had installed firefox, could i have installed a second copy while installing gnome or done something else to cause me difficulty? I like firefox but i guess i'll try getting flash to work in some other browsers and see how that goes.  Also, firefox isnt detecting any plugins in its add-ons section, perhaps thats a clue?

leetstalker

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Registered: 2009-12-23

Posts: 15

Re: [SOLVED] can't get flash to work

[SOLVED ] It was the file permissions, /usr/lib/mozilla was restricted to users. I may have created the dirs myself to try and manually install the plugin and forgot the permissions. I thought i checked them but oh well, at leeast i got it. Thank you.