Macromedia Flash 9

carlosinfl · 10-23-2006, 01:27 PM

i see that Ubuntu is now loading Flash 9 and was wondering if anyone is using this on their Debian box?

b0uncer · 10-23-2006, 01:46 PM

I would, if I had Debian..but it's not a matter of distribution, if you're interested you can grab the installer from Adobe (btw. it's not Macromedia anymore). Their direct Downloads page won't give it to you (or didn't for me), but there is another page on Adobe where that Flash 9 Update (or something like it) is; google will find it for you. Basically the package includes just the plugin for your browser, so "installing" it does not need apt or anything, just grab the package and copy the plugin file to your browser's plugin directory.

I haven't encountered any problems with it so far..

carlosinfl · 10-23-2006, 01:50 PM

Is this the correct link?

http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/downl...ShockwaveFlash

**EDIT**

Nope - that is version 7

I can't locate the download for 9...

XavierP · 10-23-2006, 02:13 PM

Try the thread at the top of the Linux-News forum.

carlosinfl · 10-23-2006, 02:29 PM

Installed and working - Thanks!

carlosinfl · 10-25-2006, 08:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Carlwill

Installed and working - Thanks!

Ahh - I have no idea what happened. It was working fine after I downloaded the file (FP9_plugin_beta_101806.tar.gz), extracted the 2 files and moved the libflashplayer.so to my Firefox plugin directory.

After I rebooted the box, I all of a sudden only get Flash 7 again. I checked and the file is still in the plugins directory for Firefox which to me is:

Code:

cwilliams:/usr/lib/firefox/plugins# ls
libflashplayer.so  libtotem_mozilla.so  libunixprintplugin.so

I think perhaps this was the wrong place to put the file

Any thoughts?

lurko · 10-25-2006, 06:54 PM

I put libflashplayer.so in ~/.mozilla/plugins. It's possible your version 7 flash plugin is there..

carlosinfl · 10-26-2006, 07:23 AM

Man - I always forget about the hidden directories...That makes sense!

Code:

cwilliams@cwilliams:~/.mozilla/plugins$ ls
flashplayer.xpt  libflashplayer.so

Now do I move the flash 9 file called "libflashplayer.so" as root or as cwilliams?

HappyTux · 10-26-2006, 11:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Carlwill

Man - I always forget about the hidden directories...That makes sense!

Code:

cwilliams@cwilliams:~/.mozilla/plugins$ ls
flashplayer.xpt  libflashplayer.so

Now do I move the flash 9 file called "libflashplayer.so" as root or as cwilliams?

Since it is your home directory as cwilliams.