Adobe Flash player problem with Firefox 3.0 beta

[Dana J. Laude]

Kevin B. O'Brien wrote:
> I've run into a problem with installing the Adobe Flash player on 
> Firefox 3.0 beta, which was installed when I upgraded to Hardy. When I 
> try to install the plug-in, I get an error:
> 
> "Firefox could not install this item because "install-wfd.rdf" (provided 
> by the item) is not well-formed or does not exist. Pleaase contact the 
> author about this problem."
> 
> When I went to the Adobe site, I saw they had a downloadable tar-ball 
> for the flash player, but I can't seem to figure out where the path is 
> to the right executable to Firefox.
> 
> Any ideas on how to get this resolved?

Just untar the archive and copy the file libflashplayer.so. Like:

sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/browser-plugins

You might have to create the browser-plugins directory.

cd /usr/lib
sudo mkdir browser-plugins

Worked for me, hope this helps.

Dana