Adobe Flash player problem with Firefox 3.0 beta

[David McGlone]

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