Adobe Flash player problem with Firefox 3.0 beta

[David McGlone]

On Monday 05 May 2008 9:18:10 pm David McGlone wrote:
> On Monday 05 May 2008 6:10:27 pm Dana J. Laude wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Or you can also untar it in /home/.mozilla/plugins

Ah sheesh, I meant /home/user/...........