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#1 2009-03-11 21:32:08

chris_debian
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[SOLVED] Can't get Flash plugin to work.

Hi, all.

I have done a fresh install of Arch, but am still using my previous /home partition.

I've installed mozplugger, Flash and Firefox, but the Flash plugin doesn't function.

Can anyone tell me how I can get around this?

Many thanks,

Chris.

Last edited by chris_debian (2009-03-12 12:11:53)


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#2 2009-03-11 21:40:49

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't get Flash plugin to work.

there are two main reason:
1. you didn't relogin
2. wrong permission of /usr/lib/mozilla/ and /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. it should be 755


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#3 2009-03-11 22:58:41

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't get Flash plugin to work.

There's no need to symlink anything in Arch. wonder covered the usuals.

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#4 2009-03-12 09:15:07

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't get Flash plugin to work.

Did you change your default shell? That happened to me when I changed my shell from bash to tcsh (apparently I needed to do more than just say my shell was tcsh hmm ).
I have reverted to bash then it started working again smile


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#5 2009-03-12 09:21:35

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't get Flash plugin to work.

make sure you have mplayer-plugin and codecs installed

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#6 2009-03-12 12:11:29

chris_debian
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Re: [SOLVED] Can't get Flash plugin to work.

wonder wrote:

there are two main reason:
1. you didn't relogin
2. wrong permission of /usr/lib/mozilla/ and /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. it should be 755

Perfect. 

Many thanks,

Chris.


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#7 2009-03-13 00:45:00

pierce.jason
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Re: [SOLVED] Can't get Flash plugin to work.

wonder wrote:

there are two main reason:
1. you didn't relogin
2. wrong permission of /usr/lib/mozilla/ and /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. it should be 755

Is there anything in addition to this, that needs to be done for 64bit usage?

Wiki says that 64bit flash should be pacman-and-go just like the standard 32bit, but no love even after verifying directory permissions. about:plugins says there are none.

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#8 2009-03-13 10:26:38

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't get Flash plugin to work.

@piere.jason you can start debugging this issue with echo $MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH . if is empty there are two reasons:
1. didn't relogin after installating firefox
2. you don't have bash and /etc/profile wasn't called.


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#9 2009-03-13 19:44:09

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't get Flash plugin to work.

I do not have any value in $MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH. Manually exporting from an xterm, and spawing firefox from the same xterm makes firefox realise I have plugins.

1) I have logged in/out, and rebooted multiple times after firefox's installation, and after flash installation
2) I do have, and am using bash(even to startx), /etc/profile _is_ being called. However /etc/profile does not have a $MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH variable set in it anywhere.

Is firefox package supposed to edit the /etc/profile to add this variable? Obviously setting the variable here is the solution, just curious now as to why it was a problem to begin with.

Thanks for pointing me the right direction there wonder.

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#10 2009-03-13 20:40:38

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't get Flash plugin to work.

you don't need to add that to /etc/profile. in that file there is a for where is called all files from /etc/profile.d/. there is mozilla-common.sh that exports that.


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#11 2009-04-22 17:06:47

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't get Flash plugin to work.

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#12 2009-04-22 17:15:05

wonder
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Re: [SOLVED] Can't get Flash plugin to work.

/etc/profile is owned by filesystem package


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#13 2009-05-03 16:03:13

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't get Flash plugin to work.

solved see further down

Last edited by greenfish (2009-05-04 14:21:22)


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#14 2009-05-04 10:33:09

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't get Flash plugin to work.

solved thanks to Mion/Wonder on #archlinux!

I removed firefox32/flashplugin-universal, and installed firefox+flashplugin from pacman instead = success! cool

Last edited by greenfish (2009-05-04 14:20:17)


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