Closed Bug 79108 Opened 24 years ago Closed 24 years ago

Shockwave/Flash is not recognized under Mandrake 8.0

Categories

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Product:
Core Graveyard
Component:
Plug-ins
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 69167

People

(Reporter: ewv, Assigned: serhunt)

References

Details

I have the Shockwave Flash plugins installed, but mozilla keeps asking me to download them. The exact same plugins work with 4.77. I'm using Mandrake 8.0 as the OS, which probably has a new version of glibc.
have you copied them to the mozilla plugin dir? (eg. "cp /usr/lib/netscape/plugins/*lash* /usr/local/mozilla/plugins)
Yes I have. In fact I've tried my original plugins, the ones that come with Mandrake 8.0, and the ones available from Macromedia's website. All of them are ignored. I assume this is the same problem as Real's plugins being ignored on certain linux systems.
I can confirm this on Mandrake 8.0. In both 0.8 and 20010420.
i don't have mandrake, but based on user comments, marking NEW
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
So do I in Debian 2.2r3
My (original reporter) install suddenly started seeing the plugin. (I changed nothing). Also, 0.9 saw it the first time up.
I found this bug is due to bug 69167 ---- plugin lookup /usr/lib/libXt.so but there are /usr/lib/libXt.so.6* so it dead silently. a workaround is ln -sf /usr/lib/libXt.so.6 /usr/lib/libXt.so
Depends on: 69167
I confirmed this. I'am using mozilla 0.9.1 on Conectiva Linux. flash plugin works fine, after: cd /usr/lib/mozilla ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6.0 libXt.so ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6.4 libXext.so I will make these links available on our RPM package.
*** Bug 87697 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This is already fixed I am using mandrake 8, with build 2001062306 and it works /usr/local/mozilla/plugins has the flash files, it shows in about:plugins, and it loads fine pages WFM
Not fixed on RH7.1. In order to make flash work i have to ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so /usr/lib/libXt.so
This is easily fixed by editing the .bashrc file or the .bash_profile file for each user in Mandrake8.0 by adding LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/X11R6/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH export LD_LIBRARY_PATH This library path is not added by default and must be edited for each user. This should be a release note as a known issue - it is difficult to track down and easily fixed, and affects many plugins, not just the flash plugin.
oops I take that back Making that change makes all plugins visible when you type about:plugins but whenever a plugin is called, it sefgaults with "Internal error :Null Plugin Manager etc.." The strange thing is, since I started having this error, when I invoke mozilla from the command line I no longer see a list of plugins being registered?
This is a duplicate of bug 65055 Until bug 65055 is closed, install XFree86-libs package, it will correct the problem..
Well, on Mandrake 8.0 with build 2001080104 doing cd /usr/lib/mozilla ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 libXt.so causes an immediate lockup of mozilla on startup if Java is enabled. With Java disabled any attempt to access a page using an installed plugin causes an immediate lockup with no messages issued to the console. This is under KDE 2.1.1, XFree86 4.0.3-7mdk, stock kernel 2.4.9. Interestingly netscape 4.x on this platform exhibits exactly the same behaviour.
av, this is a dup of 69167
This is a duplicate of bug 69167. Could someone with enough privilege close this bug ?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 69167 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: Core → Core Graveyard
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