gnash 0.1 does not make correct symlinks for firefox epiphany

[sam tygier]

Binary package hint: mozilla-plugin-gnash

after installing mozilla-plugin-gnash 0.8.1~trunk.070802-0ubuntu1 neither firefox nor epiphany show gnash in about:plugins, and they are unable to show flash movies.

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/gnash/libgnashplugin.so /usr/lib/epiphany/2.19/plugins

get epiphany working, so it appears to be a symlink problem.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

yes there was a typo in postinst/prerm scripts ... ubuntu2 fixes this

[sam tygier (samtygier)]

this is not fixed for me.

i have done a purge and reinstall of all firefox, epiphany-browser and gnash packages.

there seem to be symlinks
/usr/lib/firefox/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so -> /etc/alternatives/firefox-flashplugin -> /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so
for each of firefox, mozilla, iceape, epiphany etc.

what package makes these? they dont go when you uninstall the browsers.

i dont have flashplugin-nonfree installed.

it is possible that i have just got my symlinks is a mess. if someone says that it works on a clean system, then i am probably wrong

[Thomas Wolfe (tomwolfe)]

I also have this problem, except i just coped it over cp /usr/lib/gnash/libgnashplugin.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
anyhow, could this have also messed up flashplugin-nonfree, since I have reinstalled that (and uninstalled gnash) and it does not see the nonfree flashplayer (aka it does not work anymore).

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 05:01:13PM -0000, Thomas Wolfe wrote:
> I also have this problem, except i just coped it over cp /usr/lib/gnash/libgnashplugin.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
> anyhow, could this have also messed up flashplugin-nonfree, since I have reinstalled that (and uninstalled gnash) and it does not see the nonfree flashplayer (aka it does not work anymore).
>

uninstall all flash packages and manually remove the left over
alternative that was installed by accident.

I don't fix this in post/pre scripts because its not trivial and it
should just affect users that installed the bad gnash package
... which was replaced within a day or so.

 - Alexander

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

if you still see this, even though you have removed all alternatives manually before installing flash packages again, just drop a note.