Re: [gentoo-user] www-plugins/adobe-flash-10.1.53.64 won't play in FF & Konqueror

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

On 23 June 2010 09:03, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 June 2010 23:46:07 Mick wrote:

>> > I have nsplugins installed and manually performed the nspluginwrapper
>> >
>> >  config actions to enable the 32-bit flash plugin
>>
>> Do I need to do that?  Won't Konq work with 64bit flash?
>
> There is NO 64 bit flash in the latest packages, confirmed in the ebuild.

This shows how long its been since I had to look into/do anything about this.

>> I have reinstalled kde-base/nsplugins but Konqueror will still not play.
>
> You need nspluginwrapper installed and configured. It will find all your 32-
> bit plugins and do the necessary to make Konqueror aware of them. This doesn't
> happen automatically, every time you update a plugin the config is broken and
> has to be redone.

I've done what Alex suggested which was to add
/usr/lib64/nsbrowser/plugins in the Konqueror plugins and then the
Scan button found a load of them in there including flash.

It plays flash fine now!

Thank you all.  :-)
-- 
Regards,
Mick