How to install Flash for Firefox 3 beta in Ubuntu
First make sure you have the Adobe Flash plugin installed. It is not packaged with any version of Firefox.
$ sudo update-flashplugin
$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
This package of flashplugin-nonfree was made before the Firefox3 pre-releases, so we have to add it to the libraries manually. This method will “link” it from the default install location (not just copy it) so in case you upgrade flashplugin-nonfree in the future, it will be updated for Firefox3 as well.
$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so /usr/lib/firefox-3.0b3/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so
If you are using a different version of Firefox3 than I am (firefox3.0b3) you’ll need to modify that line. To test if it worked go to a flash site such as YouTube.com.
sorry but it doesn’t work for me. I do not know why.
sorry it work now. i had the firefox installed under another directory. great. thanks for the hand.
Thanks nyukkuh.
You’re welcome, Jesus
The gist of this is that the Ubuntu packagers decided to give users the ability to install ff3 alongside ff2, but they did not have the installation script automagically symlink to ff2’s plugins.
ff2 keeps it’s plugins in /usr/lib/firefox/plugins
ff3 keeps it’s plugins in /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins,
which is itself symlinked to from /usr/lib/firefox-3.0-3.0b3pre/plugins
To solve this, you should more properly link to /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins, and not /usr/lib/firefox-3.0-3.0b3pre/plugins.
CODE:
cd /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins && sudo ln -s /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/* . && cd && ls -l /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins
This worked just fine, thanks. The location of my flash player was somewhere else, but I got the gist of what you shared. So this ended up being the command I ran:
ln -s /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox-3.0b4/plugins/libflashplayer.so
After a quick restart of Firefox 3, I was good to go. Oh, I’m using Fedora 8.
I test ff & suiterunner for fun, I have lots of profile directories & flash was screwed (again).
Big thanks
I navigated to each plugin dir I could find and did this
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so ./flashplugin-alternative.so
Thanks toobuntu that worked 4 me
It doesn’t work for me at all. I have done what I knew.
File:
/usr/lib/firefox/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so
exists. I made symb. links to this file (which is, also, sl to /etc/alternatives/firefox-flashplugin) in the following locations:
/usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins
/usr/lib/firefox-3.0b3/plugins
/usr/lib/firefox-3.0b5/plugins
but it changed nothing. Does anyone know how to make it work?
I asked at mozilla forum and I got a very simple answer - just to go to Adobe site, download *.tar.gz script and install it manually. Now it really works!
Great tip!
When I was wondering if this was some packaging or Ubuntu-specific issue, stumbled across this and fixed the problem in a command-line.
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks.It works. I use firefox 3.0b5.
Hey, it worked, and I didn’t even have to restart Firefox! (beta5 on Ubuntu Studio 8.04)
try this: http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/flash
it worked for me (Ubintu 8.04)
How do you add it to libraries manually?
Thanks
Worked for me with Firefox 3 RC2
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worked wonders. i’m learning that the linux support forums offer nothing but contempt, that my hope has come from true believers like yourself you take the time to post support like this. thanks very much. btw…it worked in fedora 8…
apparently everyone here is having success with there flash problem… but i dont understand anything u guys are saying…. theres no actual directions… just kind of list or sudo etc stuff…
could someone please explain the process?
You’re thinking too hard. Enter the commands into a terminal screen. Its that easy.