
In the system32 folder the updater is built into Adobe. It doesn't recognize that the folder or files that it needs in it, exist. There also appears to be a bug/reference problem with the installation of Internet Explorer 8 giving the error "Missing Shockwave Decompression XTRA", when trying to play a Shockwave/Flash file, which seems also to affect Firefox and other browsers. This fix should work for those of you whom cannot view/see flash images as well. They included this bug fix in revision 10b. Going directly to the website and downloading a new version of Adobe Flash Player, and installing, doesn't uninstall the older version, (though it says it does) nor does it fix the problem. (For Vista users your folder order will be Computer > C: Drive > Windows > System32 > Macromed > Flash for Vista) If its not the 10b or 10c version, double click on it and it will update your flash player to the latest version.In the Flash folder look for a file named FlashUtil10b.exe or something similar.In that folder click on system32 and look for the Macromed folder and open the Flash folder inside.Under the Administrator account on your computer open up My Computer.This is a possible solution for most users: #Just copying the libflashplayer.so does the trick to enable Flash for Firefox.Įcho '# Copying libflashplayer.so to '$plugin_homeĬp tmp/usr/lib64/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.For WinXP, Internet Explorer 8, Firefox, etc.

Rpm2cpio tmp/flash_latest.rpm | cpio -D tmp/ -idmv mozilla/plugins doesn’t exist you can create itīase_url= Index of /pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/Essentials/x86_64/įlash_link=$(lynx -dump -listonly “$” > tmp/flash_latest.rpmĮcho ‘# Extracing ffmpeg rpm package into tmp dir folder’ Sample script that downloads the latest version from OpenSuSE repo can be find here: Copy libflashplayer.so to /home/$USER/.mozilla/plugins/.Downloading Flash Player for Linux either from the official side or from public rpm repo.
