Bug 147997 - Installation of flash-player from Macromedia fails
Summary: Installation of flash-player from Macromedia fails
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: SUSE Linux 10.1
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Installation (show other bugs)
Version: Beta 3
Hardware: Other Other
: P5 - None : Normal (vote)
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Assignee: Wolfgang Rosenauer
QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf
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Reported: 2006-02-03 14:36 UTC by Juergen Weigert
Modified: 2006-02-06 10:45 UTC (History)
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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.