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Ede

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Registered: 2009-12-09

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Again: Flashplugin on freshly installed Arch64

I'm getting kind of frustrated. I freshly installed Archlinux. Installed 'flashplugin' from the repo and it doesn't work (neither in Opera nor in Chrome). Checked permissions. It's 755 for /usr/lib/mozilla and for /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and it's even 755 for the file. What goes wrong?

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

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Re: Again: Flashplugin on freshly installed Arch64

usually the two things that can be wrong are:
1) you didn't login and MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH is not set. test by doing echo $MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH
2) permission, which in your case are right.

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Ede

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Registered: 2009-12-09

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Re: Again: Flashplugin on freshly installed Arch64

@1) ls -l /usr/lib/mozilla: drwxr-xr-x 2 Ede Ede 4096 2009-12-09 14:22 plugins
@2) $MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH: bash: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins: is a directory

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

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Re: Again: Flashplugin on freshly installed Arch64

I'm not sure if this matters, but why is /usr/lib/mozilla owned by you, the user? This is my stuff:

ls -l /usr/lib/mozilla
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec  9 17:41 plugins

ls -l $MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH
total 9392
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9570952 Dec  9 15:43 libflashplayer.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      35 Nov 10 13:11 libnpjp2.so -> /opt/java/jre/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   43149 Nov  2 20:43 mozplugger.so

PirateJonno

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From: New Zealand

Registered: 2009-04-13

Posts: 372

Re: Again: Flashplugin on freshly installed Arch64

@2) $MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH: bash: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins: is a directory

do "echo $MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH" not "$MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH"

Last edited by PirateJonno (2009-12-10 04:46:11)

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