[gadgetgirl02]

I upgraded from FC 3 to FC 5 a few months ago. For the most part the upgrade went very smoothly, but I lost the use of Flash in Firefox (version 1.5.0.1). No problem, I thought, I was used to losing Flash under FC 3 every time I upgraded Firefox, and I thought I just had to copy the plugin files to the new Flash version directory under the plugin subdirectory.

I'm now taking an on-line course with Flash content, and went to fix the problem today. It didn't work. I tried using Konqueror instead, and it can't use Flash either. I've checked, double-checked, and re-checked that the Flash plugin files (flashplayer.xpt and libflashplayer.so) are in the correct plugin directory. Not surprisingly, I've copied them everywhere else that looks like it may be an alternative directory too. Neither Firefox (my preferred browser) nor Konqueror can find them.

The only clue I have is that when I used a find command to double-check I had the right plugin directory (per the help files on Mozilla's site), I received a warning that my folder links may be corrupted. So I might have an underlying file directory problem (yikes) that is just showing up due to the plugin issue.

Anybody seen anything like this before? Anything I can try?

[gadgetgirl02]

SOLVED: *sigh* I find this always happens -- I get desperate enough to post, and then continue researching, only to find the solution indirectly. I went to fedoraforum.org, which mentioned that there was a security issue with Flash for Linux and gave instructions for how to update with yum. I was a few update versions behind (although still current by major versions), so I followed the yum instructions and... it must have cleaned up whatever else was broken when it did the update. Go figure.

I will say that in some ways Linux is progressing so quickly that what was once a carefully-noted set of command-line entries is now, as they say, "just a few clicks of the mouse" in just a matter of months. I got stuck on doing something manually that was replaced by a safer, more automatic method.

I don't know if I still have the mysterious directory problem the find command I used during my research reported, but I'll see.

Hope this helps someone else at least!