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Installing Flash into Firefox for exactly one user only

I would like to install Flash (currently is not installed) strictly for one user only. Anyone know the steps and/or where the plug-in should be placed so only that one user can access it? Shell commands to do this are fine (and in fact, preferred). I did try to just let the plug-in install itself through Firefox while logged in to that one user, but it asked for the admin password so I cancelled at that point, suspecting it would do a global install. Googling for this only found posts regarding that commercial OS.

Ubuntu 9.10 x86_64, Firefox 3.5.9.

Hi,

You can download the binary from adobe.com and copy libflashplayer.so in ~/.mozilla/plugins (if the directory plugins doesn't exist, you have to create it)

Regards

By "binary" you mean the libflashplayer.so file itself?

N/M ... that file is all there is inside the tar.gz file for download.

x86_64 you are out of luck, Adobe put amd64 flash development on hold.

You either need to use the 32bit flash with nspluginwrapper or a 32bit browser with 32bit flash in a chroot.

Firefox still says I need to upgrade Flash. This is for a Youtube video.

Quote:

Originally Posted by craigevil (Post 4041903)

x86_64 you are out of luck, Adobe put amd64 flash development on hold.

You either need to use the 32bit flash with nspluginwrapper or a 32bit browser with 32bit flash in a chroot.

Is this why it won't load? Do you know how to set that up for one user only?

Unfortunately adobe has stopped for the moment the development of 64 bit flash plugin. You can use the 32 bit plugin (the one you've downloaded) with nspluginwrapper
Take a look here for details

Regards

Those details look like installing it system-wide. Anyone know how to do the nspluginwrapper thing specific to one user only?

You install nspluginwrapper system-wide and use it to install the flash plugin that resides in the user ~/.mozilla/plugins directory

Quote:

Originally Posted by bathory (Post 4042321)

You install nspluginwrapper system-wide and use it to install the flash plugin that resides in the user ~/.mozilla/plugins directory

The linked directions in a previous post had:

Code:

sudo nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/

sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/

I can translate the first 2 of those to:

Code:

sudo nspluginwrapper -i /home/flashy/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so /home/flashy/.mozilla/plugins/

How would I translate the 3rd command? E.g. what is the relevant path? There is no subdirectory named "firefox-addons" and in the subdirectory "firefox" there is no subdirectory named "plugins". Do I need these at all? Do I need to create "/home/flashy/.mozilla/firefox-addons/plugins" or "/home/flashy/.mozilla/firefox/plugins"?

N/M the previous post. I tried it with just the first 2 commands, and that works! Thanks!