Bug 147997

Summary:	Installation of flash-player from Macromedia fails
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1	Reporter:	Juergen Weigert <jw>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	Wolfgang Rosenauer <stark>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Beta 3
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Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Description Juergen Weigert 2006-02-03 14:36:44 UTC

The official flashplayer-installer from www.macromedia.com/shockwave/downloads/download.cgi 
www.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_7_linux.tar.gz

suggests /usr/lib/mozilla as installation path. 
In SuSE-Linux this must be /usr/lib/browser-plugins.

I suggest to add /usr/lib/mozilla as a symlink like this:
cd /usr/lib; ln -s browser-plugins mozilla
cd /usr/lib/mozilla; ln -s . components; ln -s . plugins;

The subdirectories 'components' and 'plugins' are necessary for the flashplayer-installer work.
flashplayer can thereafter be found by firefox and konqueror.

Comment 1 Wolfgang Rosenauer 2006-02-03 17:44:41 UTC

puh, I'm not sure if we want to add this dirty workaround for broken third-party installers?
Andreas?

Comment 2 Andreas Jaeger 2006-02-03 18:16:59 UTC

No - btw. flashplayer is part of our extra tree and should install correctly.

Comment 3 Wolfgang Rosenauer 2006-02-03 18:26:47 UTC

yep

Comment 4 Juergen Weigert 2006-02-06 10:45:45 UTC

Side effect: 
We throw away some user-friendliness --
Web pages that say 'This content requires the Maromedia Flash player _Click here to download the most recent version_'  happily guide the EndUser into 
the void. 
E.g. www.novell.com/linux does so.