[SOLVED] Flash doesn't work

[evaldas]

Hi everybody,

I have just installed Mageia 4.1 and installed flash 32 bit from Mageia control center
I can't watch videos on the webpages, there is still notifications about need to install player
It seems that instalation was succesfull as I can find Flash control center in System adjustment menu

Maybe someone could help how to setup link between Flash and Firefox, or something like this?

[doktor5000]

Please show the output of

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rpm -qa | grep -i -e firefox -e flash | sort

[evaldas]

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firefox-24.8.0-1.mga4
firefox-lt-24.8.0-1.mga4
flash-player-plugin-11.2.202.400-1.mga4.nonfree


[doktor5000]

What webpage did you try, please provide example links that don't work so others can test those, too.
Also, do you see flash plugin when you visit about:plugins in Firefox (enter it in the adress bar). Do you have some kind of popup blocker or adblock or something like that enabled?

Apart from that, did you read our MAQeia for flash player plugin: viewtopic.php?f=34&t=880
and maybe in viewtopic.php?f=41&t=5337 ?

[evaldas]

Thank you! I followed the link and found that I installed wrong plugin - I used i586 plugin for my 64 bit Mageia.
After uninstalation of wrong plugin and instalation of 64 bit plugin it works.
Question: why there is two options in the mageia contro center - one ends 202 and other 400?

[doktor5000]

At least one from _release repo and the latest from _updates. That's the case for every package.

May I ask why and how you installed an i586 plugin on your x86_64 Mageia?

[evaldas]

because I found somethere in the internet that Firefox is 32 bit so 64 bit plugin won't work. And that was misleading info
So I need to instal both?

[doktor5000]

Why not simply ask here if firefox is 32bit or 64bit? Actually it's available for both, and that since years, even upstream at mozilla.

You don't need to install both, but the plugin should match the browser. One could use nspluginwrapper which should in theory allow
to use 64bit plugins in 32bit browsers, but that created quite some issues in the past.

Basically you shouldn't fiddle with it. Remove firefox and flash-plugin, then reinstall both from the x86_64 repos and let package management choose the package.
It will always default to install native packages.