On 12/22/2014 05:40 PM, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote:
> Hi Yasha Karant!
>
>   On 2014.12.22 at 17:25:20 -0800, Yasha Karant wrote next:
>
>> Before I did both of these steps, Firefox (after a quit and activate)
>> refused to use VLC, but does now
>> except for the situation as follows.
>>
>> I tried the URL below:
>>
>> http://www.chemgapedia.de/vsengine/help/en/flash/index.html
>>
>> The test  Adobe Flash Player Test did not work, with the diagnostic message:
>> Flash not running.
>>
>> The test Adobe Flash-Video Test forced a download of a FLV file that was
>> then opened and handled by VLC .
>>
>> Does anyone know why the first test failed and how to get around the issue
>> with VLC ?
> It failed because VLC is not flash. It's only a substitute that supports
> flash video files. E.g. you can watch youtube with it. But it won't run
> any other kind of flash.
>
> If you need full-featured flash plugin, refer to this guide on how to
> install flash-plugin 16 in firefox:
> http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-get-chromes-latest-flash-player-to-work-in-firefox-on-linux/
>
> I checked and it works on SL7 system. Needed to pull & rebuild ragel SRPM from
> fedora (rebuilds just fine) and install devel packages of
> alsa-lib cairo freetype glib2 gtk2 libconfig libevent libX11 uriparser mesa-libGLES
>
> then download fresh player from
> https://github.com/i-rinat/freshplayerplugin
>
> build it (you'll need cmake and g++, obviously) and copy resulting
> libfreshwrapper-pepperflash.so to ~/.mozilla/plugins/
>
>
> Install google chrome and run it once, go to
> http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ to check that flash plugin
> version 16,0,0,235 is installed.
>
> That's it, restart firefox, fresh player will locate flash player 16
> from chrome installation and will make sure it works in your firefox.
>
> Works without a hitch.
>
Assuming the above does in fact work, then it seems reasonable for EPEL 
or some other Fedora repackager for EL does this
once and for all -- and presumably would maintain it.  Although the 
above works on SL 7, has anyone tested this for SL 6 or have
a different workaround?

Yasha Karant