[scotthomas]

Hi all,

I'm having a lot of trouble getting Nightingale to play nicely with Flash on my Fedora 16 (86_64) box. I currently have Firefox, Chrome and Midori browsers installed with Flash working fine in all.

I remember from Songbird days that symlinking to a flash library would solve the issue. In that vein, I've exhausted every possible symlink combination of the following flash libraries and plugin locations (restarting Ngale between each):

Flash libraries:
/usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
~/.mozilla/firefox/<profile>/plugins/libflashplayer.so

Ngale Plugin locations:
~/.nightingale/nightingale/xulrunner/plugins
~/.nightingale/plugins
~/.nightingale/nightingale/plugins
~/.nightingale/<profile>/plugins

The only results I've gotten so far are either no Flash detected at all, or a broken Flash that lags the page and doesn't work.

I've installed the latest Flash rpm from Adobe (11.1.102.63-release.x86_64) and I'm running Nightingale 1.11.0, Build 0 (20120305120959).

I'm out of ideas. Anyone got any other possible solutions?

[Timmythepirate]

(03-16-2012, 09:59 AM)scotthomas Wrote: Hi all,

I'm having a lot of trouble getting Nightingale to play nicely with Flash on my Fedora 16 (86_64) box. I currently have Firefox, Chrome and Midori browsers installed with Flash working fine in all.

I remember from Songbird days that symlinking to a flash library would solve the issue. In that vein, I've exhausted every possible symlink combination of the following flash libraries and plugin locations (restarting Ngale between each):

Flash libraries:
/usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
~/.mozilla/firefox/<profile>/plugins/libflashplayer.so

Ngale Plugin locations:
~/.nightingale/nightingale/xulrunner/plugins
~/.nightingale/plugins
~/.nightingale/nightingale/plugins
~/.nightingale/<profile>/plugins

The only results I've gotten so far are either no Flash detected at all, or a broken Flash that lags the page and doesn't work.

I've installed the latest Flash rpm from Adobe (11.1.102.63-release.x86_64) and I'm running Nightingale 1.11.0, Build 0 (20120305120959).

I'm out of ideas. Anyone got any other possible solutions?

Other people have had this problem in the past. You have to make a symbolic link between libflashplayer.so and the plugins folder inside the Nightingale program directory. For example I have flash installed in

Code:

/usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so

and I have Nightingale installed in

Code:

/usr/share/nightingale

So, I got flash to work by making a link between the flash .so and the nightingale/plugins directory. This is the command I used to get flash to work.

Code:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so /usr/share/nightingale/plugins/libflashplayer.so

The problem that people have is that they try to make a link in the ~/.nightingale folder, which doesn't work for some reason.

[scotthomas]

(03-16-2012, 11:42 AM)Timmythepirate Wrote: This is the command I used to get flash to work.

Code:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so /usr/share/nightingale/plugins/libflashplayer.so

The problem that people have is that they try to make a link in the ~/.nightingale folder, which doesn't work for some reason.

Thanks for the reply Timmy

I moved my Nightingale instance into /usr/share/ as you suggested, then created a symlink for each of the libflashplayer.so files on my machine in turn.

Unfortunately none of them worked. Using this method, Nightingale asks me to install Flash.

*sigh*

I'm guessing it's probably a Flash issue, but I'll try an older Linux build of Songbird to be sure (as I've had that working before).

[Timmythepirate]

Try making a symbolic link just to Adobe Flash's libflashplayer.so, I don't know if other versions of Flash will work.

[Lukas_Skywalker]

We could also bundle the plugin with the application. I was able to do so for another XULRunner application of mine, but I don't know whether the licences of NG allow it. Anyway, I put the files flashplayer.xpt and libflashplayer.so in %installdir%/plugins and it worked.
Should I apply for Flash Player distribution at Adobe? That would probably make the life of Linux users easier...

[ilikenwf]

No bundling with flash - that's not a good idea, and I don't think it's license allows redistribution in that manner anyway.

[GeekShadow]

No flash. And it seems only Google Chrome will be able to ship Flash on Linux in the future.
Anyway, Flash will soon be dead...

[ilikenwf]

Hooray!

[scotthomas]

Meh, I wanted Flash mainly for Youtube and Grooveshark.
I'm sure I can find alternatives or workarounds.

Thanks all for your input.