Comment 7 for bug 532542

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CristianCantoro (cristiancantoro) wrote : Re: [Bug 532542] Re: [lucid] flashplugin-installer doesn't work with Firefox 3.6

@Viktors: thank you for your detailed answer :D

2010/3/31 Viktors Petrovs <email address hidden>:
> You can create link to flashplugin manually. Go to firefox plugins
> directory:
>
> cd /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins
>
> Create symbolic link to flashplugin:

unfortunately that folder is empty on my system (upgraded from previous version)
cristian@cristian-asus:/usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins$ ls -al
totale 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-02-18 04:06 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2010-02-22 16:50 ..

>
> 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

I have this folder but the name in my case is /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.3pre
I think this is a slightly different version.

Please note that this folder contains:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 2010-03-16 10:19 plugins ->
../firefox-addons/plugins
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 2010-03-16 10:19 searchplugins ->
../firefox-addons/searchplugins

both /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins and
/usr/lib/firefox-addons/searchplugins are empty!

>
> /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

Also /usr/lib/firefox/plugin is empty on my system:
cristian@cristian-asus:/usr/lib/firefox/plugins$ ls -al
totale 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-02-23 12:22 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2010-01-2
8 09:31 ..

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

I have no firefox-flashplugin under /etc/alternatives, here you can
see the only occurrences for "firefox" I can find in that folder:
cristian@cristian-asus:/etc/alternatives$ ls -l | grep firefox
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 2010-01-27 18:49 firefox-homepage ->
/usr/share/ubuntu-artwork/home/firefox-index.html
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 45 2010-01-27 18:49 firefox-homepage-locales
-> /usr/share/ubuntu-artwork/home/locales-ubuntu

> 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"!

I may add that, in my case, it even doesn't create links! (as I was
saying above I don't find nothing useful if I search "flashplugin" on
my system).