topic title: Flash not working (solved)
Posts: 53
michmanbiker
Joined: 24 May 2017
#1
Hello,

My installation is nearly complete and everything is working fine. The only major hickup is with flash not working on firefox 45.9.0 esr.

I tried installing Opera and Chrome to see if flash works with them, but the install does not seem to work.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Michel
Last edited by michmanbiker on 07 Jun 2017, 17:08, edited 1 time in total.
rokytnji
Posts: 4,164
rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#2
I download the tar.gz from adobe's site and extract the latest libflashplayer.so and install it manually using drag and drop in rox file manager.

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harry@biker:~
$ locate libflashplayer.so
/etc/alternatives/libflashplayer.so
/home/harry/backup/Backups/libflashplayer.so
/usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
My /etc/alternatives and /usr/lib/mozilla /plugins are symlinks <relative> pointing to /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree . Firefox is closed when I do this.
I go this route because I use Seamonkey. That way when I update falsh manually. I only have to replace the old /usr/lib/flashplayer-nonfree/libflashplayerr.so . I can leave the symlinks alone.

Be patient and wait for other posters to show the way they use the correct way to do this.
Posts: 53
michmanbiker
Joined: 24 May 2017
#3
OK I will wait as I never draged and dropped in a terminal. Would installing Chromium or the latest Firefox help?

Michel
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dolphin_oracle
Joined: 16 Dec 2007
#4
try this:

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sudo update-bunsen-pepperflash -i
which should update flash. On my default antix 16 system, the flash needed updated before the adobe flash test page would recognize it, even though adobe told me I had an older version installed.
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michmanbiker
Joined: 24 May 2017
#5
dolphin_oracle wrote:try this:

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sudo update-bunsen-pepperflash -i
which should update flash. On my default antix 16 system, the flash needed updated before the adobe flash test page would recognize it, even though adobe told me I had an older version installed.
Still does not work. I get sound as I did before, but no video
michel@antix1:~
$ sudo update-bunsen-pepperflash -i
Checking Flash version available from Adobe...
Upstream version: 25.0.0.171
Installed version: 25.0.0.171
You already have the newest version.
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dolphin_oracle
Joined: 16 Dec 2007
#6
michmanbiker wrote:
dolphin_oracle wrote:try this:

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sudo update-bunsen-pepperflash -i
which should update flash. On my default antix 16 system, the flash needed updated before the adobe flash test page would recognize it, even though adobe told me I had an older version installed.
Still does not work. I get sound as I did before, but no video
michel@antix1:~
$ sudo update-bunsen-pepperflash -i
Checking Flash version available from Adobe...
Upstream version: 25.0.0.171
Installed version: 25.0.0.171
You already have the newest version.
got a test site? what are you trying to view?
Posts: 53
michmanbiker
Joined: 24 May 2017
#7
BBC news. I'm in hospital now using their public wifi. could that be the cause? Any other sites I can test?

Thanks,

Michel
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dolphin_oracle
Joined: 16 Dec 2007
#8
what do you see on your screen instead of the video?

Incidentally I just tried BBC News here (United States) and its using HTML5 video instead of flash.

you can check here to see if your flash is installed correctly according to adobe.


========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player.html"
linktext was:"https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player.html"
====================================
(scroll down and if you see a tree animation, flash is working)
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michmanbiker
Joined: 24 May 2017
#9
I tried with my phone data tethering still the same problem. When I try to download the latest Adobe Flash files the browser show an error message and does not load the download page ??1???!!!

Michel
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dolphin_oracle
Joined: 16 Dec 2007
#10
michmanbiker wrote:I tried with my phone data tethering still the same problem. When I try to download the latest Adobe Flash files the browser show an error message and does not load the download page ??1???!!!

Michel
did you see a try on the test page I linked?
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michmanbiker
Joined: 24 May 2017
#11
Yes I did, when I went to download I had the same problem with the page not loading. I uninstalled Firefox and then reinstalled it and now it works!! Thanks a lot for your help.

Michel