rootninja

My old method was to install some sort of flash player plugin named something like “libflashplayer.so” and copy it from /usr/lib or /usr/lib64 to the plugins directory under “~/.mozilla/plugins/”. But now that’s old school. All you need to do in Fedora 12 is my two step method:

# yum install gnash-plugin

(I was recommending swfdec-mozilla but it has some major bugs playing some flash content, and in the latest version of Firefox, it doesn’t seem to work at all for me, but give it a try and let me know if its works)

# mozilla-plugin-config

This will create links in /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/.

Restart Firefox if you have it open and that’s it. If you have already visited a site that uses flash and it didn’t load, or it gave you a generic image of a play button that didn’t do anything, just reload the page and it should work. Or just clear your cache manually.

* If you go to “about:plugins” in firefox, you should see this section near the top:

File name: nswrapper_64_64.libgnashplugin.so
Shockwave Flash 10.1 r999. Gnash trunk, the GNU SWF Player. Copyright © 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Gnash comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. You may redistribute copies of Gnash under the terms of the GNU General Public License. For more information about Gnash, see http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash. Compatible Shockwave Flash 10.1 r999.

* If you got swfdec-mozilla working, it will look something like this:
(taken from my old version of installing flash support)

Shockwave Flash
File name: nswrapper_64_64.libswfdecmozilla.so
Shockwave Flash 9.0 r999
application/x-shockwave-flash Adobe Flash movie swf Yes
application/futuresplash FutureSplash movie spl Yes

For a quick test, go to the adobe flash test page. It loads quickly and will let you know instantly if its working or not.

Done.

The nspluginwrapper can cause SELinux AVC errors which may prevent the viewing of Flash content. Changing the relevant SELinux boolean may resolve this problem, but if you want to get up and running fast, just disable selinux in /etc/sysconfig/selinux/config

If all else fails, give the realdeal commercial version a try, you know, Adobe flash. There’s a repository for it out there, or you can just find the tarball or rpm. The latest one I’ve found is:

flash-plugin.i386 : Adobe Flash Player 10.0

But I run a 64 bit os with 64 bit Firefox. So I have to use nspluginwrapper to “wrap” 32 bit plugins in the plugin-wrapped directory. If you use 64 bit firefox too, then you’ll need to find the elusive 64bit version of Adobe flash and try it. But screw all that, just use the GNU version! It works fine for me.