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I'm having a problem with my Adobe Flash Player. I have Version 9.0.48.0 according to http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/about/
When I play certain videos (i.e. MTV music videos), it gives me this message:
"You are trying to install Adobe Flash Player on an unsupported operating system. For system requirements, please visit: Flash Player System Requirements (link being - http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplay … index.html)
For Flash Player, please visit: Flash Player Download Center (link being - http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/)"
I'm also using Firefox/2.0.0.9
I searched around thinking I should upgrade to the Adobe Flash Player v10, but some forums are saying that it's not compatible with Linux.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
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I'm sorry - I can't offer an easy solution, but it sounds as if your version of Flash may be limited in what it can play.
Flash 10 is compatible with Linux, but not without installing extra packages and updating to Firefox 3. The macromedia link in your post tells me that I'm running version 10.0.12.36 - that's on an eee PC 901 with Ubuntu-eee. I found Flash and video playback very choppy under Xandros, and in the end I decided it was easier to move to Ubuntu rather than fiddle with Xandros, especially since most of the other packages were also out-of-date versions.
This may sounds like an advert, but under Ubuntu-eee I can watch DVD movies and the BBC iPlayer full-screen with no choppiness, and really I think that's the way to go if you want good video performance.
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MadiMae wrote:
I searched around thinking I should upgrade to the Adobe Flash Player v10, but some forums are saying that it's not compatible with Linux.
It is not compatible with the EeePC Xandros distro. An earlier beta of v10 may work.
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Here's something that may help http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php? … 22#p417422 I'll try to find the other thread(s) after I make another coffee. 
Edit: ...ah, the link is already given...
Last edited by winotree (2008-11-13 11:33:13 am)
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I have a version 10 installed and working in Xandros with FF2.0.11
1. Put this in the address bar
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashplayer10_install_linux_081108.tar.gz
and you will get a download box; download the file. Most likely it will be placed in /home/user
2. Open a terminal and type
tar -xvzf flashplayer10_install_linux_081108.tar.gz
3. You will get three files
install_flash_player_10_linux/
install_flash_player_10_linux/libflashplayer.so
install_flash_player_10_linux/flashplayer-installer
4. Type sudo bash (still in terminal) and the prompt will change so you know you are now a super user
then type
cd install_flash_player_10_linux
5. Last type
cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
Close the terminal. Open FF and type about:plugins in the address bar and you can see you have adobe flash 10 installed.
You can go back into /home/user and delete flashplayer10_install_linux_081108.tar.gz
edited because link for download kept giving me a 404 error!
Last edited by plodr (2008-11-13 11:48:05 pm)
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Thank-you plodr,
Your step-by-step instructions worked perfectly! I now have flash 10 installed! Time to test it out! 
Edit: Spelling (as always)
Last edited by demill (2008-11-15 3:19:32 pm)
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I wish I could say this has worked for me. However, my about:plugins page still says Flash 9, and flash doesn't work at all for me. 
Any hints on what I should check? I posted my EEE info here:
http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?pid=439329
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I wish I could help. I am sure someone will be along soon who can. I merely followed Plodr's instructions and they worked perfectly for me. I have a 701 and FF 3.0.1. I know nothing about the 901's. Good luck TrevorBradley!
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If you have FF 3, then you almost certainly have GLIBC 2.4.. Running Firefox from the command line, I see missing GLIBC 2.4 errors.
Specifiically...
/home/user> /opt/firefox/firefox
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /home/user/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so [/lib/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by /home/user/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so)]
I'm guessing I'm having a library problem of some kind...
EDIT: D'OH! My answer is right above...
/home/user/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
That's not the default mozilla plugins dir! Deleted these files, restarted, all is good again with Flash 9...
Last edited by TrevorBradley (2008-11-16 9:11:34 pm)
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Good job.
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TrevorBradley, how did you go about fixing the problem? I have the console stating the same when I start FF 3. I'm very much a beginner and I'm so confused
Thank you for everyone's help! It is sincerely appreciated!
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According to the wiki, I copied /opt/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so to firefox/plugins/
It worked! I can finally watch videos again!
but...
I'm still receiving warnings:
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /home/user/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so [/lib/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by /home/user/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so)]
& a new one after I copied the file...
(firefox-bin:4362): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
Help?
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****, I think I broke it...
Here's what I did.
1. Did 1-3 of plodr's steps.
2. Sudo XandrosFileManager, went to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
3. Renamed libflashplayer.so to libflashplayer.so.bak.
4. Copied the new libflashplayer.so.
5. Restarted Fx.
6. Found out Flash doesn't work. Deleted libflashplayer.so, renamed the old one.
7. Found out Flash still doesn't work.
EDIT: 8. Rebooted and found out that Flash works. Yes!
Last edited by Hukka (2008-11-21 11:58:08 am)
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MadiMae, my problem was I must have come across a Flash 10 site with the popup asking me to upgrade. Firefox downloads Flash and stores it in the local directory, rather that the /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins directory. I deleted the file /home/user/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so and my system was happy again.
I think I also get those GLIB 2.4 errors still, but Flash 9 works fine.
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