[SOLVED] cant i get flash player too work?

[geraldw321]

hi there i have installed flash from control center and i have tried a direct dl and install , yet i still cant get flash player too work in firefox too view videos? any suggestions?

[RoyD]

I found this very helpful
https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=880

[djennings]

Do you have an old Pentium CPU?

If so then you need an old version of flash

https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Flash_Plugin_Installation

[RoyD]

I do not have an old Pentium. Look at my signature. As per the link you found, you have some choices to make and that is up to you.

[djennings]

I do not have an old Pentium. Look at my signature. As per the link you found, you have some choices to make and that is up to you.

Erm.. My comment was addressed to geraldw321. He is the person with the problem.

[geraldw321]

hello there no i have a new er laptop with an intel core i7-3610 proceessor 32 gig ram , gt650 video card , 256gig ssd , its loaded with new hardware.

[doktor5000]

Okay, and did you take a look at the two suggested links? The MAQeia also should tell you which information to post here in case you still don't get it working.

[geraldw321]

hello again yes ive gone thru the links provided . But its all greek too me , ive tried the codes urpmi stuff that doeant work i get urpmi command not found error and ive read all the inf o in other links and i still dont understand what im supposed too do . i have tried too dl from MCC again , it looks like i have flash player plugin for browsers installed but when i try too install flash player plugin -kde i get this error " Sorry, the following package cannot be selected:

- flash-player-plugin-kde-11.2.202.297-1.mga3.nonfree.x86_64 (due to unsatisfied libkutils.so.4()(64bit)) "

so i have no idea if im on the right track . this sucks because i had it working before on a earlier install of this same release on this same machine

[doktor5000]

Please show the output of the following commands:

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rpm -qa | grep flash
urpmq --list-media active

[doktor5000]

Heres what i got from those commands

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[######@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa | grep flash
flash-player-plugin-11.2.202.297-1.mga3.nonfree
kipi-plugins-flashexport-3.1.0-2.mga3
[######@localhost ~]$

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######@localhost ~]$ urpmq --list-media active
Core Release
Nonfree Release
Core Updates (distrib1)
Nonfree Updates (distrib2)
Tainted Updates (distrib3)
Core 32bit Updates (distrib4)
Nonfree 32bit Updates (distrib5)
Tainted 32bit Updates (distrib6)
[######@localhost ~]$

[doktor5000]

As root, please do the following:

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urpme flash-player-plugin && urpmi flash-player-plugin

and post the complete output here.

Apart from that, your repos seem strange. You're missing Tainted Release, Core 32bit Release and Nonfree 32bit Release, you should add those.
Tainted 32bit Updates is quite useless, you should remove that. How did you add those repos and/or why did you change the default setup.
You should definitely read https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Software_management

[isadora]

ok heres the output from the last code u wanted me too run . thanks for the help .

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[root@localhost ######]#     urpme flash-player-plugin && urpmi flash-player-plugin
removing flash-player-plugin-11.2.202.297-1.mga3.nonfree.x86_64
removing package flash-player-plugin-11.2.202.297-1.mga3.nonfree.x86_64
      1/1: removing flash-player-plugin-11.2.202.297-1.mga3.nonfree.x86_64
                                 #############################################


    ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/mageia/distrib/3/x86_64/media/nonfree/updates/flash-player-plugin-11.2.202.297-1.mga3.nonfree.x86_64.rpm
installing flash-player-plugin-11.2.202.297-1.mga3.nonfree.x86_64.rpm from /var/cache/urpmi/rpms
Preparing...                     #############################################
Note that by downloading the Adobe Flash Player you indicate your acceptance of
the EULA, available at http://www.adobe.com/products/eulas/players/flash/
Downloading from http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/pdc/11.2.202.297/flash-plugin-11.2.202.297-release.x86_64.rpm:
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 7048k  100 7048k    0     0  2617k      0  0:00:02  0:00:02 --:--:-- 2653k
      1/1: flash-player-plugin   #############################################
Adobe Flash Player installation successful.
[root@localhost ######]#

[doktor5000]

So the installation of the plugin was successful.

Please post your list of plugins in firefox, as described in the MAQeia for flash,
and don't forget to restart firefox after you installed the plugin to complete the intallation in firefox.

-- how to check plugin version in browser --
for Firefox, enter about:plugins in adress bar, you should see an entry for Shockwave Flash,
the filename should say libflashplayer.so, you can also see the version and supported MIME types
At http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/ you can check for firefox ifyou have the latest version of the plugin,
this is important as there are often security-realted bugs for the Adobe Flashplayer plugin because it's so widespread

[geraldw321]

YES it is working . thank you all for the help i dont quite understand the process here but the last set of comands seems too have removed some stuff and installed the proper flash program needed . i went too site i was trying to view and the player worked . i can view the instructional videos now . thanks so much for the help it is greatly appreciated.

[dedanna1029]

ive tried the codes urpmi stuff that doeant work. i get urpmi command not found error

All urpmi/urpme/urpmf commands should be run as root. I suspect you weren't - that's what it does when you're not.

[Latte]

All urpmi/urpme/urpmf commands should be run as root.

That's only partially true: urpmi and urpme requires root access but urpmq and urpmf commands can be run with user permissions.