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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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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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There's no need to symlink anything in Arch. wonder covered the usuals.
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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 ).
I have reverted to bash then it started working again
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make sure you have mplayer-plugin and codecs installed
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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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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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@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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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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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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Last edited by silent (2013-08-21 08:33:15)
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/etc/profile is owned by filesystem package
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solved see further down
Last edited by greenfish (2009-05-04 14:21:22)
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solved thanks to Mion/Wonder on #archlinux!
I removed firefox32/flashplugin-universal, and installed firefox+flashplugin from pacman instead = success!
Last edited by greenfish (2009-05-04 14:20:17)
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