On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 6:22 AM, Jeff Maxwell wrote:
On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 22:24 +1030, Tim wrote:
On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 19:46 +1100, VAFA KHALIGHI wrote:
1- I installed the adobe flash player, but when I explore some intenet pages which require flash player, it says missing flash player. Any one knows how can I resolve this problem?
I too have had issues with Adobe Flash player. I have visited web sites that say that I am missing this. I've gone to the the Adobe web site and have followed their instructions but still find that the yum or rpm process has not properly updated FireFox. Per the Adobe web site, if I check the plug ins, I should see that Adobe Flash is include after following the install instructions. Fedora 9 believes that it has installed it.
That could just be badly authored sites, but you'd need to give us some examples. A common reason that sites reckon you don't have something that you do have is that they do a stupid test via something *else*, then make wrong assumptions based on those results (e.g. use JavaScript to check something, or try to set a cookie, or look at the version of the browser that you're using and compare it with their short list).
An example of a Flash-using site that work relatively painless for me, without having to install anything other than the Adobe Flash player (via their repo), and the libflashsupport RPM: http://youtube.com/
2- can anybody please tell me how to download and install latest nvida driver for my computer?
Up until a day or so ago, I would have said add the Livna repo to your computer, and yum install akmod-nvidia (rebuilds itself after any new kernel installations), *OR* kmod-nvidia (requires updating with an updated kmod-nvidia RPM after any new kernel installations). But Livna has just merged into RPM fusion, and I'm not sure of the procedure for starting from scratch, now.
I see no harm in installing the Livna repo RPM for Fedora 9, then doing yum update once or twice to let it sort itself out. Then yum install the nvidia RPM that you want. See: http://rpm.livna.org/rlowiki/. I'm sure it'd be a bit less messy to start off with the RPM Fusion repo, but I can't advise about doing something that I've not done, myself.
The kmod-nvidia also had two variations, for 96xx series and legacy graphics cards. See: http://rpm.livna.org/rlowiki/LivnaSwitcher
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I ran into a situation with Firefox where I had an older version of the Adobe flash plugin loaded and loaded a newer one thinking it would over-write the old one. It loaded in a new location and I ended up having two of them installed
This showed up when I used "about:plugins" and looked at the plugins Firefox reported. I then had to do some searching to find the older version and remove it. This has been sometime about and I'm not at that machine so I can't give any more details.
Hope this help a little.
~~R
rlengland@verizon.net wrote:
This showed up when I used "about:plugins" and looked at the plugins Firefox reported. I then had to do some searching to find the older version and remove it.
I can confirm this is an issue if you are not careful. Firefox and Konqueror are not "smart" enough to use the "best" one. You need to be sure to delete, or at least move "out of view" the out of date versions of Flash.
Matt Flaschen
On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 11:21 -0600, rlengland@verizon.net wrote:
I ran into a situation with Firefox where I had an older version of the Adobe flash plugin loaded and loaded a newer one thinking it would over-write the old one. It loaded in a new location and I ended up having two of them installed
How did you install them to get more than one? I've not struck that problem. I installed the Flash player using the Adobe RPM, and update it with "yum update", along with everything else.
Tim wrote:
On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 11:21 -0600, rlengland@verizon.net wrote:
I ran into a situation with Firefox where I had an older version of the Adobe flash plugin loaded and loaded a newer one thinking it would over-write the old one. It loaded in a new location and I ended up having two of them installed
How did you install them to get more than one? I've not struck that problem. I installed the Flash player using the Adobe RPM, and update it with "yum update", along with everything else.
That's a question I wish I knew the answer to. I've suspected that it may have been drug along during and update but I'm certain. To the best of my recollection, however, I simply installed two versions from Adobe. I have also wondered if they changed to install location but I've spent no time investigating.
I should really keep better logs on that machine.
~~R
Tim:
How did you install them to get more than one? I've not struck that problem. I installed the Flash player using the Adobe RPM, and update it with "yum update", along with everything else.
Richard England:
That's a question I wish I knew the answer to. I've suspected that it may have been drug along during and update but I'm certain. To the best of my recollection, however, I simply installed two versions from Adobe. I have also wondered if they changed to install location but I've spent no time investigating.
Was your system a fresh install, or did you update one version of Fedora to the next over the top? Mine was a fresh install. Over-the-top installs sometimes make a mess of things.
On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 23:28 -0800, Richard England wrote:
Tim wrote:
On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 11:21 -0600, rlengland@verizon.net wrote:
I ran into a situation with Firefox where I had an older version of the Adobe flash plugin loaded and loaded a newer one thinking it would over-write the old one. It loaded in a new location and I ended up having two of them installed
How did you install them to get more than one? I've not struck that problem. I installed the Flash player using the Adobe RPM, and update it with "yum update", along with everything else.
That's a question I wish I knew the answer to. I've suspected that it may have been drug along during and update but I'm certain. To the best of my recollection, however, I simply installed two versions from Adobe. I have also wondered if they changed to install location but I've spent no time investigating.
I should really keep better logs on that machine.
Adobe has a yum repo which works with Fedora. It's better to use this than downloading and installing the RPMs by hand.
poc
Tim wrote:
Tim:
How did you install them to get more than one? I've not struck that problem. I installed the Flash player using the Adobe RPM, and update it with "yum update", along with everything else.
Richard England:
That's a question I wish I knew the answer to. I've suspected that it may have been drug along during and update but I'm certain. To the best of my recollection, however, I simply installed two versions from Adobe. I have also wondered if they changed to install location but I've spent no time investigating.
Was your system a fresh install, or did you update one version of Fedora to the next over the top? Mine was a fresh install. Over-the-top installs sometimes make a mess of things.
This machine currently has F8 and I believe it was an upgrade from 7. Previous Flash (v9) was done before there was a yum repo, I believe.
If there are two versions installed and old version is removed from the plugin files, then the new one will be "seen" and used. I just tested this out on my F9 machine.
I agree, the yum repo would be a better bet since yum will help you by replacing instead of just adding.
~~R
On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 19:05 -0800, Richard England wrote:
Tim wrote:
Tim:
How did you install them to get more than one? I've not struck that problem. I installed the Flash player using the Adobe RPM, and update it with "yum update", along with everything else.
Richard England:
That's a question I wish I knew the answer to. I've suspected that it may have been drug along during and update but I'm certain. To the best of my recollection, however, I simply installed two versions from Adobe. I have also wondered if they changed to install location but I've spent no time investigating.
Was your system a fresh install, or did you update one version of Fedora to the next over the top? Mine was a fresh install. Over-the-top installs sometimes make a mess of things.
Well, I have a fresh install of Fedora 9 and when I've accessed a WEB page requesting Adobe Flash, I followed the instructions to install it. After installation, Fire Fox plug-ins still do not register that Adobe Flash is installed. If I attempt to install it a second time, I have the message saying it is installed. I may be naive, but it seems to me that during the install (either rpm or yum) that some element did not get moved into the Fire Fox plug-in directory. Therefore, Fire Fox does not know that it exists on the system. Any help to address this would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Jeff Maxwell
This machine currently has F8 and I believe it was an upgrade from 7. Previous Flash (v9) was done before there was a yum repo, I believe.
If there are two versions installed and old version is removed from the plugin files, then the new one will be "seen" and used. I just tested this out on my F9 machine.
I agree, the yum repo would be a better bet since yum will help you by replacing instead of just adding.
~~R
Jeff Maxwell wrote:
On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 19:05 -0800, Richard England wrote:
Tim wrote:
Tim:
How did you install them to get more than one? I've not struck that problem. I installed the Flash player using the Adobe RPM, and update it with "yum update", along with everything else.
Richard England:
That's a question I wish I knew the answer to. I've suspected that it may have been drug along during and update but I'm certain. To the best of my recollection, however, I simply installed two versions from Adobe. I have also wondered if they changed to install location but I've spent no time investigating.
Was your system a fresh install, or did you update one version of Fedora to the next over the top? Mine was a fresh install. Over-the-top installs sometimes make a mess of things.
Well, I have a fresh install of Fedora 9 and when I've accessed a WEB page requesting Adobe Flash, I followed the instructions to install it. After installation, Fire Fox plug-ins still do not register that Adobe Flash is installed. If I attempt to install it a second time, I have the message saying it is installed. I may be naive, but it seems to me that during the install (either rpm or yum) that some element did not get moved into the Fire Fox plug-in directory. Therefore, Fire Fox does not know that it exists on the system. Any help to address this would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Jeff Maxwell
I don't know if this will fix your problem but have you run this script? mozilla-plugin-config -i -g -v
It registers the plugins from what I have found out. I am still trying to get my flash to play on F8 on a 64 bit system. The plugin is recognized and in the about:plugins but just doesn't work. I just need time.
On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 10:59 -0700, Robin Laing wrote:
Jeff Maxwell wrote:
On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 19:05 -0800, Richard England wrote:
Tim wrote:
Tim:
How did you install them to get more than one? I've not struck that problem. I installed the Flash player using the Adobe RPM, and update it with "yum update", along with everything else.
Richard England:
That's a question I wish I knew the answer to. I've suspected that it may have been drug along during and update but I'm certain. To the best of my recollection, however, I simply installed two versions from Adobe. I have also wondered if they changed to install location but I've spent no time investigating.
Was your system a fresh install, or did you update one version of Fedora to the next over the top? Mine was a fresh install. Over-the-top installs sometimes make a mess of things.
Well, I have a fresh install of Fedora 9 and when I've accessed a WEB page requesting Adobe Flash, I followed the instructions to install it. After installation, Fire Fox plug-ins still do not register that Adobe Flash is installed. If I attempt to install it a second time, I have the message saying it is installed. I may be naive, but it seems to me that during the install (either rpm or yum) that some element did not get moved into the Fire Fox plug-in directory. Therefore, Fire Fox does not know that it exists on the system. Any help to address this would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Jeff Maxwell
I don't know if this will fix your problem but have you run this script? mozilla-plugin-config -i -g -v
It registers the plugins from what I have found out. I am still trying to get my flash to play on F8 on a 64 bit system. The plugin is recognized and in the about:plugins but just doesn't work. I just need time.
I ran the instruction you provided and here are the results:
It appears there is a bit of an issue.
INFO: /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/npviewer looks ok. INFO: /usr/lib64/nspluginwrapper/npviewer isn't accessible. INFO: Processing /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins -> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped INFO: Linking /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/libjavaplugin.so... WARNING: Failed. INFO: Linking /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libtotem-mully-plugin.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/libtotem-mully-plugin.so... WARNING: Failed. INFO: Linking /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libtotem-basic-plugin.xpt to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/libtotem-basic-plugin.xpt... WARNING: Failed. INFO: Linking /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libtotem-complex-plugin.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/libtotem-complex-plugin.so... WARNING: Failed. INFO: Linking /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libtotem-cone-plugin.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/libtotem-cone-plugin.so... WARNING: Failed. INFO: Linking /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.xpt to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.xpt... WARNING: Failed. INFO: Linking /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.so... WARNING: Failed. INFO: Wrapping /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/nswrapper_32_32.libflashplayer.so... INFO: INFO: Linking /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/libflashplayer.so... WARNING: Failed. INFO: Linking /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libtotem-gmp-plugin.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/libtotem-gmp-plugin.so... WARNING: Failed. INFO: Linking /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libtotem-gmp-plugin.xpt to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/libtotem-gmp-plugin.xpt... WARNING: Failed. INFO: Linking /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libtotem-complex-plugin.xpt to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/libtotem-complex-plugin.xpt... WARNING: Failed. INFO: Linking /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libtotem-basic-plugin.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/libtotem-basic-plugin.so... WARNING: Failed. INFO: Linking /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libtotem-cone-plugin.xpt to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/libtotem-cone-plugin.xpt... WARNING: Failed. INFO: Linking /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libtotem-mully-plugin.xpt to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/libtotem-mully-plugin.xpt... WARNING: Failed. INFO: Wrapping /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/nswrapper_32_32.nppdf.so... INFO: INFO: Linking /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/nppdf.so... WARNING: Failed. INFO: Linking /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/librhythmbox-itms-detection-plugin.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/librhythmbox-itms-detection-plugin.so... WARNING: Failed. INFO: Processing /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins -> /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins-wrapped WARNING: I can't open dir /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins-wrapped INFO: Processing /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins -> /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins-wrapped INFO: Processing /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins <- /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped INFO: Checking plugin installation /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/nswrapper_32_32.nppdf.so... INFO: Checking plugin installation /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/libjavaplugin.so... INFO: Checking plugin installation /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/libtotem-mully-plugin.so... INFO: Checking plugin installation /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/libtotem-basic-plugin.xpt... INFO: Checking plugin installation /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/libtotem-complex-plugin.so... INFO: Checking plugin installation /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/libtotem-cone-plugin.so... INFO: Checking plugin installation /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.xpt... INFO: Checking plugin installation /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.so... INFO: Checking plugin installation /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/libflashplayer.so... INFO: Checking plugin installation /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/libtotem-gmp-plugin.so... INFO: Checking plugin installation /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/libtotem-gmp-plugin.xpt... INFO: Checking plugin installation /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/libtotem-complex-plugin.xpt... INFO: Checking plugin installation /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/libtotem-basic-plugin.so... INFO: Checking plugin installation /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/nswrapper_32_32.libflashplayer.so... INFO: Checking plugin installation /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/libtotem-cone-plugin.xpt... INFO: Checking plugin installation /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/libtotem-mully-plugin.xpt... INFO: Checking plugin installation /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/nppdf.so... INFO: Checking plugin installation /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/librhythmbox-itms-detection-plugin.so... INFO: Processing /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins <- /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins-wrapped WARNING: I can't open dir /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins-wrapped INFO: Processing /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins <- /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins-wrapped WARNING: I can't open dir /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins-wrapped [Jeff@localhost ~]$
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On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 11:03 -0500, Jeff Maxwell wrote:
On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 19:05 -0800, Richard England wrote:
Tim wrote:
Tim:
How did you install them to get more than one? I've not struck that problem. I installed the Flash player using the Adobe RPM, and update it with "yum update", along with everything else.
Richard England:
That's a question I wish I knew the answer to. I've suspected that it may have been drug along during and update but I'm certain. To the best of my recollection, however, I simply installed two versions from Adobe. I have also wondered if they changed to install location but I've spent no time investigating.
Was your system a fresh install, or did you update one version of Fedora to the next over the top? Mine was a fresh install. Over-the-top installs sometimes make a mess of things.
Well, I have a fresh install of Fedora 9 and when I've accessed a WEB page requesting Adobe Flash, I followed the instructions to install it. After installation, Fire Fox plug-ins still do not register that Adobe Flash is installed. If I attempt to install it a second time, I have the message saying it is installed. I may be naive, but it seems to me that during the install (either rpm or yum) that some element did not get moved into the Fire Fox plug-in directory. Therefore, Fire Fox does not know that it exists on the system. Any help to address this would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Jeff Maxwell
This machine currently has F8 and I believe it was an upgrade from 7. Previous Flash (v9) was done before there was a yum repo, I believe.
If there are two versions installed and old version is removed from the plugin files, then the new one will be "seen" and used. I just tested this out on my F9 machine.
I agree, the yum repo would be a better bet since yum will help you by replacing instead of just adding.
~~R
Well the flashplugin should be in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins So you can check if it is there and if it is somewhere else move it. -- ======================================================================= patent: A method of publicizing inventions so others can copy them. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@sbcglobal.net
On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 11:03 -0500, Jeff Maxwell wrote:
Well, I have a fresh install of Fedora 9 and when I've accessed a WEB page requesting Adobe Flash, I followed the instructions to install it. After installation, Fire Fox plug-ins still do not register that Adobe Flash is installed.
That's still a bit vague. There's a plethora of different instructions on the web, we don't know which ones you've followed.
But I've rarely ever got that (*) sort of thing to work on any browser, on any OS. It nearly always fails in one way or another: It goes through the motions, but won't start installing, or whatever's installed doesn't work.
* Getting Flash to install from a webpage that says I need to add a plug-in, and it tries to arrange it.
What has worked just about flawlessly for me, is to install the Adobe repo, go to http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ pick the YUM for Linux option, download and install it. Then, in the command line, as root, do: yum install flash-plugin libflashsupport
Afterwards, any time you do a yum update, or use the updating graphical doodah that notifies you from the taskbar panel, it's self maintaining.
I'd be tempted to remove all flash software you've installed, then try installing it the way I've outlined above. Do the removal properly, if it's been RPM installed, then RPM erase it. Don't just delete the files, or move them about.