On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, MHR wrote:
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Dag Wieers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, MHR wrote:
installed Adobe's flash player version 10.0.12.36 from their site. It
Can you give a hint to what version you downloaded ? Because what is in the
package is just a binary plugin that comes from Adobe.
As noted above, but here is the long listing of the file - I can send
you a copy if you like:
-rw-r--r-- 1 mrichter RnD 4026104 Oct 24 11:56
flash-plugin-10.0.12.36-release.i386.rpm
This also works perfectly on my 64-bit CentOS 5.2 system at home
(which I'm pretty sure I do NOT have updated from rpmforge, but I can
check when I get home).
Ok. Here is my analysis. The package from Adobe does 2 additional things:
1. It removes any of the older files that were part of older flash
plugins from all system directories and home directories.
2. It symlinks the flash plugin to all known locations of all compatible
browsers.
So the first item can explain why you may have problems if you have some
older (leftover) files installed somewhere that is picked up by your
browser. You installed mine, they conflicted. Then you installed Adobe's
and that got rid of those files.
The second item can also explain why it may work now for you. If you have
some older plugin installed somewhere else and my plugin was not picked up
by your seamonkey because I put it in /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/ it was
using some leftover flash.
I am not sure how I would handle this from my package. I noticed that Red
Hat is doing the same thing as Adobe in their package, although they have
removed the README and LICENSE information.
I will redo my package even though I don't like the solution. At least it
will be consistent.
Thanks for the feedback !
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