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Making Adobe Flash work on a 64-bit Fedora 11

On the Fedora Wiki there is an excellent article which made my Fedora 11 (x86_64) run Flash 10.

This is a copy-paste from the article:


Adobe also has a pre-release version of a 64-bit plugin. Until this is supported via yum, you will need to do the following:

   1. Download the .tar.gz version from Adobe here.
   2. Use "gtar -xzvf" to extract libflashplayer.so and put it in either in /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/ or ~/.mozilla/plugins/.
   3. Restart Firefox.

Posted by nixpanic on Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Let Firefox add RSS-Feeds to Thunderbird

I'm using Thunderbird as mail client and RSS-reader. Firefox is the web browser of my choice. Now I would like Firefox to add links to RSS-feeds to Thunderbird. The next script makes that possible.


#!/bin/sh
#
# Open an RSS-Feed with Thunderbird.
# Idea from: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=4368033&postcount=7
#

exec thunderbird -mail "feed:${1}"

Unfortunately I was unable to make it work (using about:config) without a script.

Posted by nixpanic on Wednesday, July 2, 2008

NSPluginWrapper in CentOS-5.2 (x86_64)

This is an update for an older post by me: Installing Flash on CentOS-5.x86_64

CentOS-5.2 already includes NSPluginWrapper. Yust install it as usual with:


yum -y install nspluginwrapper

Posted by nixpanic on Thursday, June 26, 2008

Installing Flash on CentOS-5.x86_64

With some help from a post in the CentOS-wiki I was able to install the 32-bit version of Adobe's Flash-Plugin on a 64-bit Firefox.

Using the nspluginwrapper RPMs and the flash-plugin from RPMforge.

This is what I have done:

install nspluginwrapper (viewer)

install nspluginwrapper (plugin)

install the flash-plugin: yum -y install flash-plugin or manually from the RPM

run the following command as root: nspluginwrapper --install /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

check the installation: in the firefox addressbar about:plugins or visit a site with flash ;)

Posted by nixpanic on Friday, May 16, 2008