Adobe flash plugin missing symlinks to work

[LTSmash]

Binary package hint: flashplugin-nonfree ; adobe-flashplugin

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:

harry@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:

harry@harry-desktop:~$ cd /usr/lib
harry@harry-desktop:/usr/lib$ ln -s libnss3.so.1d libnss3.so
harry@harry-desktop:/usr/lib$ sudo ln -s libnss3.so.1d libnss3.so
harry@harry-desktop:/usr/lib$ sudo ln -s libsmime3.so.1d libsmime3.so
harry@harry-desktop:/usr/lib$ sudo ln -s libssl3.so.1d libssl3.so
harry@harry-desktop:/usr/lib$ sudo ln -s libplds4.so.0d libplds4.so
harry@harry-desktop:/usr/lib$ sudo ln -s libplc4.so.0d libplc4.so
harry@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?)

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

I installed from the alternative cd a new installation of Ubuntu 8.04.1. I then attempted to reproduce this issue with firefox.

firefox:
  Installed: 3.0.5+nobinonly-oubuntu0.8.04.1
  Candidate: 3.0.5+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1

Since I do not have a YouTube account, I went to google videos. I double-clicked on one video, got no plugin, was offered the installation. I allowed the system to install flash-plugin-nonfree. Still could not run the video. Shutdown firefox and restarted, went to google videos, video plays as expected.

Is you system up-to-date? Did you restart firefox after the flash-plugin was installed? Is this a 32-bit or 64-bit installation?

[nimbosa (darth-serious)]

same here:
xUbuntu 8.04.2

AFTER updating from http://archive.canonical.com hardy/partner adobe-flashplugin 10.0.15.3-1hardy2 [3929kB]
i cannot use Flash, it won't start

tried to run :

~$ sudo firefox &
[1] 13081
~$ LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so [libplds4.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory]
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so [libplds4.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory]

PREVIOUSLY, i successfully installed and updated:

$ sudo dpkg -i install_flash_player_10_linux.deb
Selecting previously deselected package adobe-flashplugin.
(Reading database ... 147409 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking adobe-flashplugin (from install_flash_player_10_linux.deb) ...
Setting up adobe-flashplugin (10.0.15.3-1hardy1) ...

$ sudo apt-get install adobe-flashplugin
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  mcpp python-pygame libgnome2-vfs-perl
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
Suggested packages:
  msttcorefonts ttf-xfree86-nonfree xfs
The following packages will be upgraded:
  adobe-flashplugin
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 303 not upgraded.
Need to get 3929kB of archives.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://archive.canonical.com hardy/partner adobe-flashplugin 10.0.15.3-1hardy2 [3929kB]
Fetched 3929kB in 1min17s (50.9kB/s) s
(Reading database ... 147414 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace adobe-flashplugin 10.0.15.3-1hardy1 (using .../adobe-flashplugin_10.0.15.3-1hardy2_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement adobe-flashplugin ...
Setting up adobe-flashplugin (10.0.15.3-1hardy2) ...

$ date
Tue Jan 20 19:39:57 PHT 2009

AFTER updating from http://archive.canonical.com hardy/partner adobe-flashplugin 10.0.15.3-1hardy2 [3929kB]
i cannot use Flash, it won't start

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Did you remove "flashplayer 9" before attempting to install "flashplayer 10"?

[nimbosa (darth-serious)]

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

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through traffic in a car that
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On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 23:56, Charlie Kravetz
<email address hidden>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:
>
> harry@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:
>
> harry@harry-desktop:~$ cd /usr/lib
> harry@harry-desktop:/usr/lib$ ln -s libnss3.so.1d libnss3.so
> harry@harry-desktop:/usr/lib$ sudo ln -s libnss3.so.1d libnss3.so
> harry@harry-desktop:/usr/lib$ sudo ln -s libsmime3.so.1d libsmime3.so
> harry@harry-desktop:/usr/lib$ sudo ln -s libssl3.so.1d libssl3.so
> harry@harry-desktop:/usr/lib$ sudo ln -s libplds4.so.0d libplds4.so
> harry@harry-desktop:/usr/lib$ sudo ln -s libplc4.so.0d libplc4.so
> harry@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.
>
> (NOTI...

[nimbosa (darth-serious)]

Setting up adobe-flashplugin (10.0.15.3-1hardy2)

i removed previous versions of the same file,
NOW it works if Firefox is started as ROOT (terminal:"sudo firefox") right after install
 i now have Adobe Flash

tried the same procedure before, but doesn't work, i wonder if it has been patched since then?

this is the latest cached DEB package that works

[Toby Hudson (t-hudson)]

Thanks for posting this bug report, and especially the list of symbolic links you created. I had a very similar issue (but I tried so many things, it's hard to give a clear description of what I did), and creating the links fixed it.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Which Flash package(s) is(are) installed, flashplugin-nonfree or adobe-flashplugin? i.e., dpkg -l flashplugin-nonfree adobe-flashplugin

[nimbosa (darth-serious)]

I think *adobe-flashplugin* pretty much supersedes flashplugin-nonfree,
SINCE adobe's revival of interest in Linux/UNIX systems increased their
direct participation in opensource packages
and after 9.x and Ubuntu 8.04 release the more updated and more compatible
package comes as *adobe-flashplugin

i advise **adobe-flashplugin *for installing 10.x flash on Ubuntu 8.04 and
beyond,
it *is the only one that worked on the most updated (8.04.2) Ubuntu i have*

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

Since this report have a long time without activity, could you check (if is possible) in latest version included in Karmic if this issue is still happening? Thanks in advance.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

[nimbosa (darth-serious)]

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