Bryan,

On 01/18/2010 03:00 PM, bryan.zimmer at hotmail.com wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I admit, I haven't methodically searched all archives for an answer to this, 
> but maybe someone can tell me:
> 
> I have tried to use my browser (Opera) to access certain sites in Fedora 
> (9,10,11,12), but more and more often am told that the site requires Adobe 
> plug-ins like shockwave and flashplayer. My machine runs 64-bit x86_64 
> Fedora.
> 
> I have downloaded libflashplayer.so, understood to be a 32-bit library, but 
> I am at a loss as far as where to put libflashplayer.so in the filesystem. I 
> have tried various locations, such as /lib/mozilla/plug-ins, and 
> /us/lib/opera/plug-ins and extensions.
> 
> I don't know whether the 32-bit library is just ignored by the 64-bit 
> system, or whether I should place them in the 64 bit library path (i.e., 
> /usr/lib64/...).
> 
> Seems to me that I tried those 64-bit locations, which is somewhat weird 
> because the library is still 32-bit.
> 
> Am I on a wild goose chase, or is there a way to make this work?
> 
> Bryan Z.
> 
> bryan dot Zimmer at
>     hotmail.com 
> 

I can't speak for Opera, but on Fedora 12 x86_64 with Firefox and
Chrome, I use Adobe Flash 10.  Download the file[1], extract it and put
libflashplayer.so in /home/user/.mozilla/plugins and it works for me.

Paul