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I searched on Google but the tutorials I found said they had to paste the plugin in /usr/lib/firefox/plugins But this folder does not exist!

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  • where did you find this tutorial? Any link? – erch Feb 05 '14 at 17:43
  • Yes, any link. But I will not post here because it is in Portuguese (I'm Brazilian) and would not help much! – Patterson Feb 05 '14 at 17:47
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    I'd still paste it, we can use google translate to try and at least partially follow. I do it all the time! – slm Feb 05 '14 at 18:06
  • Are you on a 64-bit system? If so, you're looking for the folder `/usr/lib64/firefox/plugins` rather than `/usr/lib/firefox/plugins`. – WhiteHotLoveTiger Feb 05 '14 at 18:19
  • If it turns out you're on a 32-bit system, could you post the output of `ls /usr/lib/firefox*` ? – WhiteHotLoveTiger Feb 05 '14 at 18:25
  • There is a folder like this: /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins I put the plugin in that folder, but the youtube videos carry a few seconds and then close a message asking me to download the flahs appear as if I did not have the plugin, but when I type about: plugins in firefox it recognizes the flash exists and is enabled! – Patterson Feb 05 '14 at 18:47
  • # ls /usr/lib/firefox* No such file or directory – Patterson Feb 05 '14 at 18:52
  • On a 64-bit system, you'll probably find firefox and its associated directories with `ls /usr/lib64/firefox*`, though I'm not sure that'll help much. – WhiteHotLoveTiger Feb 05 '14 at 23:39
  • What version of Firefox are you running? – WhiteHotLoveTiger Feb 05 '14 at 23:53

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Try the Slackbuild: http://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.1/multimedia/flashplayer-plugin/

You simply download the flash tarball: 32-bit or 64-bit, as well as the SlackBuild: flashplayer-plugin.tar.gz

From wherever you downloaded them to:

# tar xzf flashplayer-plugin.tar.gz
# mv install_flash_player_11_linux.i386.tar.gz flashplayer-plugin
# cd flashplayer-plugin
# ./flashplayer-plugin.SlackBuild

This will produce a package for you to install. At the end, it'll say something like 

Slackware package /tmp/flashplayer-plugin-11.2.202.332-x86_64-1_SBo.tgz created.

Then just run

# installpkg /tmp/flashplayer-plugin-11.2.202.332-x86_64-1_SBo.tgz

That should take care of everything for you.

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  • Your username never gets old 8-) – slm Feb 05 '14 at 18:25
  • haha, thanks! also: woo! the upvote on this answer finally pushed me above 100 rep! :D – WhiteHotLoveTiger Feb 05 '14 at 18:28
  • If you create accounts on other SE sites you get a 100rep bonus, so that'll get you to 200 – slm Feb 05 '14 at 18:37
  • Package flashplayer-plugin-11.2.202.332-x86_64-1_SBo.tgz installed. I did it properly, but I still have problems, I can not watch a video from youtube to the end. The videos stop in the beginning and youtube says I need flash. – Patterson Feb 05 '14 at 20:42
  • That sounds strange. Do the videos play even a little bit, or do you get the error message right away? – WhiteHotLoveTiger Feb 05 '14 at 23:37
  • Either way, I'm not confident that I'll be able to help you much past this point except for suggesting that you try restarting your machine to see if that helps Firefox recognize the plugin better (I'm doubtful of this, but it's worth a try). – WhiteHotLoveTiger Feb 05 '14 at 23:50
  • Videos play for a moment, and then the video and for the error message appears. This is strange because I'm sure the flash plugin is the latest version. – Patterson Feb 06 '14 at 13:39
  • I already re-installed slackware but nothing changes and installed the flash plugin the way you taught but the problem persists. – Patterson Feb 06 '14 at 13:41
  • Very odd. The last thing I can suggest is asking over at the official Slackware forums at: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/ The folks there are very helpful, and even the creator of Slackware, Patrick Volkerding, hangs out there and answers questions. Though I'm not sure that this is a Slackware specific issue, it sounds more like a flash or Firefox issue. – WhiteHotLoveTiger Feb 06 '14 at 15:18
  • Then I'll see if I can find help on llinuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14 I also think that this problem is very strange flash, I tried using Konqueror and he showed the same mproblema trying to load youtube videos. With firefox I tested the version of Flash that link: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/ The firefox showed that single flash plugin is out of date, but it is not out of date! because when I type about: plugins in firefox, this result appears: – Patterson Feb 06 '14 at 16:49
  • File: libflashplayer.so Path: / usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so Version: 11,2,202,336 State: Enabled Shockwave Flash 11.2 R202 And this is the latest version of flash. Anyway thanks for your attention, and for trying to help me! – Patterson Feb 06 '14 at 16:49
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Download flash*tar.gz for correct architecture(x86/x64) from adobe website. Untar it like this:

tar xvf install_flash_player_11_linux.x86_64.tar.gz

Move libflashplayer.so to correct folder like this

cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/

/lib/ for 32 bit. Restart your browser. Done!

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I know slackbuild-way is probably the proper way to do that. Although I have it working only for my user by copying the plugin to ~/.mozilla/plugins/.

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Solved! I had to go this link https://www.youtube.com/html5. And I enabled HTML5.

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