hi Charlie, No, i havent installed ANY (free/nonfree) flashplayer (before on (*)Ubuntu, I was using MEPIS 7 (adobe-friendly out of the box) and this is a fresh 8.04.2 install from TW repositories and 8.04.1 LiveCD installation.
I hope that detail helps! Thanks for taking time to explore this bug.. - Seth Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it. - Ellen Goodman On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 23:56, Charlie Kravetz <[email protected]>wrote: > Did you remove "flashplayer 9" before attempting to install "flashplayer > 10"? > > -- > Adobe flash plugin missing symlinks to work > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/310128 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in "flashplugin-nonfree" source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete > > Bug description: > Binary package hint: flashplugin-nonfree > > Hi, > > I recently installed flashplugin-nonfree under Xubuntu 8.04 on two > machines. To begin with, I tried to load a video on YouTube, but Firefox > didn't offer me the flash installation, so I had to install it manually > under the console. I installed from normal repos first, and it correctly > installed flashplayer 9, but then I decided to activate the backports repo > to get the latest plugin; so after doing so I attempted to install > flashplugin-nonfree again, but it failed to download it, it seems that the > URL is incorrect (in the URL that works it uses the subdomain "download", > but with this package it attempts to access to the subdomain "fpdownload", > and it doesn't exists), so I downloaded the .deb from Adobe's web directly, > and it installed fine. > > After that, when trying to load a video on YouTube again, it still said > that I had no flash installed, so I executed Firefox on the terminal and > noticed it was missing some symlinks: > > ha...@harry-desktop:~$ firefox > LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library > /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so [libnss3.so: no se puede abrír > el archivo de objeto compartido: No existe el fichero ó directorio] > LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library > /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so [libnss3.so: no se puede abrír > el archivo de objeto compartido: No existe el fichero ó directorio] > > So after replacing it and all of the missing symlinks, flash began to work: > > ha...@harry-desktop:~$ cd /usr/lib > ha...@harry-desktop:/usr/lib$ ln -s libnss3.so.1d libnss3.so > ha...@harry-desktop:/usr/lib$ sudo ln -s libnss3.so.1d libnss3.so > ha...@harry-desktop:/usr/lib$ sudo ln -s libsmime3.so.1d libsmime3.so > ha...@harry-desktop:/usr/lib$ sudo ln -s libssl3.so.1d libssl3.so > ha...@harry-desktop:/usr/lib$ sudo ln -s libplds4.so.0d libplds4.so > ha...@harry-desktop:/usr/lib$ sudo ln -s libplc4.so.0d libplc4.so > ha...@harry-desktop:/usr/lib$ sudo ln -s libnspr4.so.0d libnspr4.so > > Please add those symlinks to default Ubuntu 8.04.1 so that flash will work > correctly. > > (NOTICE: This happend exactly the same way on two machines, so I guess it's > almost confirmed, isn't it?) > -- Adobe flash plugin missing symlinks to work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/310128 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
