Comments on: Install Adobe Flash Player 10 in openSUSE Linux

By: banhbaochay

banhbaochay — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:02:13 +0000

Hello,
I use openSUSE 11.2 64 bit and try to install flash 10.1 beta 3 as Diablisko said:

“do all as root: (close all browsers!)
unpack anywhere
copy unpacked ‘libflashplayer.so’ to ‘/usr/lib64/browser-plugins’ directory
set permissions: ‘chmod 755 /usr/lib64/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so’
remove ‘/usr/lib64/firefox/components/X.dat’ file

restart firefox”

But I don’t have X.dat file in /usr/lib64/firefox/components/ and now I can’t install successfull flash 10.1 beta 3 in my system
Please help me, thanks!

By: spass

spass — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 10:20:48 +0000

Try to start firefox from computer->firexox if you use gnome. There might be an error if you created the starter yourself.

By: spass

spass — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 10:04:52 +0000

If you use gnome and have your own desktop starter created to start firefox, it may not be working. Best to start firefox from computer->firefox or drag & drop the firefox-Item from there to your desktop to create a starter automatically.
If it is still not working you may have to uninstall all 32-bit flash player installations. Than it should be working.

By: kishore

kishore — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:28:50 +0000

I’ve downloaded the install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz file from the flash player site, untar ed the file onto the desktop but I just got one libflashplayer.so file. I didn’t got any directory, I moved this file into the /usr/lib/browser-plugins as stated in the above posts, but still I got no flash player, the browser is still asking for download plugins. Please help me out with this.

Iam using openSuse linux 11.0
Any help will be highly appreciated,
thanks in advance.

By: Carit Benike

Carit Benike — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:44:41 +0000

Noticed bad swf performance, because flash 10 does not support OpenGL (on all GPU’s)

A hack said to modify the libflashplayer.so by opening it in a hex-editor, and replace ‘compiz’ with ‘xxxxxx’.

Upside: Worked for me.
Downside: Firefox crashes at random (not often, but nevertheless)

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 05:51:28 +0000

@Ray: Actually the tar -zxvf install_… is not a target file path, it’s a command with the file path to be run in a console, terminal, or whatever you call it. It’s just for extracting the content. If you are (sorry) new to Linux, you can just extract using the GUI application like Ark, XArchiver, etc. or anything you can do to extract it.

By: Ray

Ray — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 17:44:57 +0000

i have a problem
i can download the flash player but after that i unzip and untar it with the target file path tar -zxvf install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz after that i open the downloaded file there stands “open with” what do i have to do now???
please answer me!!

By: Marzio

Marzio — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 08:46:08 +0000

Diablisko’s instructions worked perfectly for me (OpenSuSE 11 on 64 bit architecture), so many thanks!

By: peter thesing

peter thesing — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 11:26:30 +0000

Hi
Since flash player 9 sound rendering is no longer supported. For all those seeking to Even more a big evidence would be to open a flash video website like http://www.youtube.com and you should be able to view the videos. will be treated with some choppy video and silece. This new feature of excellent stereo silence will surely enhance your youtube experience

By: Ender

Ender — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:03:01 +0000

I’m running into the same issues as Oren.

Has anyone figured this one out?