Flashing just a bit

OK, I'm willing to try this tip from LinuxQuestions.org on how to get the Macromedia Flash plugin to work with Fedora.

Basically, after installing the compat-libstdc++-7.3-2.96.118 RPM, we have the following soft links in /usr/lib:

# su
# ls -l /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  18 Dec 19 22:48 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 -> libstdc++.so.5.0.5
# ls -l /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  31 Dec 20 19:17 /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 ->
     libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so

The suggestion is to do

# ln -s /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3

which will put in the link that the plugin expects. Note that at the moment we have

# rpm -qf /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5
libstdc++-3.3.2-1
# rpm -qf /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3
compat-libstdc++-7.3-2.96.118
# rpm -qf libstdc++.so.5.0.5
libstdc++-3.3.2-1
# rpm -qf libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so
compat-libstdc++-7.3-2.96.118

so is seems to me that we're mixing libstdc++ and compat-libstdc++ in strange and mysterious ways. Anyway, one can hope, let's do it.

Hmm. No luck yet, so I have to restart this browser. Back in a few.