flash plugin will not load, yeah I did look on google...

[blackphiber]

alright, I hope that someone can help me.  When I start Firebird I get the following:
[thomas@x1-6-00-20-e0-6c-19-4d MozillaFirebird]$ ./MozillaFirebird
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /home/thomas/Documents/programs/firebird/MozillaFirebird/plugins/libflashplayer.so [libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory]

/home/thomas/Documents/programs/firebird/MozillaFirebird/plugins/libflashplayer.so does exist.  I looked on google: web page and it seems that none of the solutions  like the symbolic link stuff works.  Any help would be appreciated and if you want I can get VNC started up and hopefully you might be able to figure it out.  Well thanks, I need flash to work because for cisco I have homework and all the curriculum is online http://cisco.netacad.net and it all requires flash.  I am going to try posting at linuxquestions.org too, please, help.  thanks

[jtpenrod]

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/home/thomas/Documents/programs/firebird/MozillaFirebird/plugins/libflashplayer.so

There's a problem right there. That's not a recognized path to shared libs. You need to move libflashplayer.so to the library directory: /usr/lib. Once that's done, you need to run /sbin/ldconfig (as root) in order to register the new lib with the dynamic loader. Otherwise, it won't find the new lib.
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[blackphiber]

Thanks for the reply but no luck I did cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib and then I did /sbin/ldconfig restarted the browser and the same error came up, did you want me to move instead of copy cause I can just delete libflashplayer.so from /home/thomas/Documents/programs/firebird/MozillaFirebird/plugins
wait, I just tried that and it still does not work.    linuxiso people think it might be something with permissions but it has read write and execute access.  Well your idea will probably work but I am probably messing up somewhere like I always do.  Thanks again.  Yeah I have gotten it working on other systems, I don't know why this one's causing me so much trouble.

[madluther]

libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 is the c++ library installed with gcc-2.95.x.

From the shell prompt run ls -al /usr/lib/libstdc++* and see what versions of the library you have.

a listing of my /usr/lib

/usr/lib/libstdc++-3-libc6.3-2-2.10.0.so
/usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 -> libstdc++-3-libc6.3-2-2.10.0.so
/usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 -> libstdc++-3-libc6.3-2-2.10.0.so
/usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.3-2.so.3 -> libstdc++-3-libc6.3-2-2.10.0.so
/usr/lib/libstdc++.a
/usr/lib/libstdc++.la
/usr/lib/libstdc++.so -> libstdc++.so.5.0.5
/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 -> libstdc++.so.5.0.5
/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5.0.5

As you can see I have two c++ libs :-

/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5.0.5 is the c++ lib for gcc-3.3.1

/usr/lib/libstdc++-3-libc6.3-2-2.10.0.so is the c++ lib for gcc-2.95.3

Your problem could just be a missing symlink, or the library needs to be installed from your distro's package manger.

Note, moving the libflashplayer.so file wont help, it needs to be in the plugin dir for mozilla/firebird to find it.

To check that all the libs that the plugin needs are present, run

ldd /home/thomas/Documents/programs/firebird/MozillaFirebird/plugins/libflashplayer.so

the output should look something like this:

libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x40233000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40285000)
        libz.so.1 => /lib/libz.so.1 (0x40288000)
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x40297000)
        libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x4035f000)
        libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x4036d000)
        libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 => /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 (0x403bf000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x4040b000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4042d000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x80000000)
        libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x4055d000)
        libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x40566000)

Hope this helps.

Regards Mad.

[ December 02, 2003: Message edited by: madluther ]

[mobrien_12]

[ December 02, 2003: Message edited by: M. O'Brien ]

[blackphiber]

Thanks.  I just got home from school and someone responded with a solution that works. linuxquestions.org
have a nice day!