On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Del Merritt wrote:
I have been having difficulties with the Adobe Flash plugin for Firefox.
For a while it simply didn't work on my system (CentOS 5.2). Then last week
there was an update to the plugin, and *voila*, I could see Flash content.
(nevermind that it ate my system...)
Then a day later, another update was available, and after the upgrade, the
player stopped working again (in Firefox, at least).
I try to stick with apt as my package manager, though there was a time I was
using yum. In my /etc/apt/sources.list.d I have two files:
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/os.list
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/rpmforge.list
Their contents, respectively, are:
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/os.list
# Name: Operating system and updates
### Red Hat Enterprise Linux
repomd http://mirror.centos.org centos/$(VERSION)/os/$(ARCH)
repomd http://mirror.centos.org centos/$(VERSION)/updates/$(ARCH)
repomd http://mirror.centos.org centos/$(VERSION)/extras/$(ARCH)
repomd http://mirror.centos.org centos/$(VERSION)/fasttrack/$(ARCH)
# all other entries commented out
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/rpmforge.list
# Name: RPMforge RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise 5 - dag
# URL: http://rpmforge.net/
# rpm http://apt.sw.be redhat/el$(VERSION)/en/$(ARCH) dag
repomd http://apt.sw.be redhat/el$(VERSION)/en/$(ARCH)/dag
Are these "sensible" entries? Are some of them redundant? Am I missing some
"common" entry? All of the above?
In my /var/log/apt.log, I have these clues:
Upgrading apt 0.5.15lorg3.2-3.el5.rf to 0.5.15lorg3.94a-3.el5.rf
Upgrading mtr 2:0.74-1.el5.rf to 2:0.75-1.el5.rf
Upgrading flash-plugin 10.0.12.36-release to 10.0.12.36-1.el5.rf
Upgrading subversion 1.5.3-0.1.el5.rf to 1.5.4-0.1.el5.rf
Upgrading wxGTK 2.8.8-1.el5.rf to 2.8.9-1.el5.rf
Transaction succeeded at Mon 03 Nov 2008 09:38:47 AM EST
The above was the version of flash-plugin that seemed to work. Then:
Upgrading net-snmp-libs 1:5.3.1-24.el5_2.1 to 1:5.3.1-24.el5_2.2
Upgrading flash-plugin 10.0.12.36-1.el5.rf to 10.0.12.36-2.el5.rf
Upgrading net-snmp-utils 1:5.3.1-24.el5_2.1 to 1:5.3.1-24.el5_2.2
Upgrading net-snmp 1:5.3.1-24.el5_2.1 to 1:5.3.1-24.el5_2.2
Transaction succeeded at Tue 04 Nov 2008 01:30:19 PM EST
This version - my current one - is not working in Firefox.
Can you first see if you have this link:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -l /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Nov 9 00:15
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so ->
/usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
And then do (as root):
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# /usr/lib/flash-plugin/setup
And check if the link is still there ?
I am not sure what happened and I have experienced this myself. However I
use the scripts from Red Hat so I prefer not to touch them even if they
fail to do what they should.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rpm -qp --scripts
/media/Pack/mrepo/rhel5s-i386/supplementary/flash-plugin-9.0.124.0-1.el5.i386.rpm
postinstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh):
if [ "$1" = "1" ]; then
/usr/lib/flash-plugin/setup install
fi
if [ "$1" = "2" ]; then
/usr/lib/flash-plugin/setup upgrade
fi
preuninstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh):
if [ "$1" = "0" ]; then
/usr/lib/flash-plugin/setup preun
fi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rpm -qp --scripts
/dar/packages/flash-plugin/flash-plugin-10.0.12.36-2.el5.rf.i386.rpm
postinstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh):
if [ $1 -eq 1 ]; then
/usr/lib/flash-plugin/setup install
elif [ $1 -eq 2 ]; then
/usr/lib/flash-plugin/setup upgrade
fi
preuninstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh):
if [ $1 -eq 0 ]; then
/usr/lib/flash-plugin/setup preun
fi
I guess the problem is that it does an upgrade, while instead it should
probably do an install coming from the previous flash-plugin that did not
have this script...
--
-- dag wieers, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://dag.wieers.com/ --
[Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]
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