Comment 5 for bug 532542

On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 08:40 +0000, CristianCantoro wrote:
> May I ask where the said link points? I have no such link in /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins (more... that dir is empty!)
> Furthermore, unless I have both flashplugin-installer and flashplugin-nonfree packages (see above) installed I can't see any significative occurence of flashplugin or libflash in my sistem (i.e. I got package info files and so on, but no libs it seems)
>
Package flashplugin-installer does not contain plugin lib files, it
downloads needed files from adobe site.
As i understand flashplugin-installer installs link in
the /usr/lib/firefox/plugins while current firefox-3.6 files are
under /usr/lib/firefox-3.6/ directory.

I have two systems with Ubuntu Lucid. One fresh installed other upgraded
from previous Ubuntu version. On both systems there was same problems
with flash plugin.

You can create link to flashplugin manually. Go to firefox plugins
directory:

cd /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins

Create symbolic link to flashplugin:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so
libflashplugin-alternative.so

Name of the symbolic link must start with "lib" prefix.

I have following links on my system:

/usr/lib/firefox-3.6/plugins
-> ../firefox-addons/plugins

/usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/libflashplugin-alternative.so
-> /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so

/usr/lib/firefox/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so
-> /etc/alternatives/firefox-flashplugin

/etc/alternatives/firefox-flashplugin
-> /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so

I think there is two problems with flashplugin-installer:
1) It places link in wrong place (or firefox is installed in wrong
place :D)
2) It creates link with wrong name! Must be prefixed with "lib"!