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Flash not working with Firefox openSUSE 11.0

Have you install the Flash package from Adobe (10.0.0 Beta) and you lost your flash capabilities with firefox?

No worries it is easily fixed. Just run:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so

Close firefox (if open) then re-open and you’re golden.

Enjoy.. like always.. Hope someone finds it helpful

Tags: flash, linux, opensuse

Default kdesu to use sudo and not su

Have you recently installed openSUSE 11.0 and added:

username ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

Into your /etc/sudoers files, only to find out now when you launch yast it still prompts for a password?
The issue is actually that kdesu was switched from using sudo to su when elevating priviledges. This was not the behavior in openSUSE 10.3 and earlier versions of 11.0 (RC / Beta etc).

To restore this configuration you can running the following command:
kwriteconfig –file kdesurc –group super-user-command –key super-user-command sudo

Hope this actually helps someone.