I know there's a whole shockwave petition and all, but then I needed to play .ram files and while copying (or symlinking) the shared object files for realplayer to my browser plugins section, I noticed that the shared object files included things for shockwave (really shockwave, not just flash!).

Of course perhaps we'd prefer native shared object files and all, but it worked successfully. I can play shockwave files on Linux (under RealPlayer overhead) now. Of course I know I downloaded the alpha version of RealOne anyway, but it works quite fine.

Plus Linux RealPlayer is free to modify, redistribute, decompile, etc. no? Its certainly free and perhaps more viable then a certain Crossover wine way of using Windows plugins. You actually have to pay for it.

Or, more to the point, who cares? :D


Cheers,
Tink

Some may care. like my sibling who spends life playing shockwave games. Or people who simply have to use such sites. There was also a petition if I remember, and I still support it, but this is a temporary workaround.

Or people who are forced to use it.
I am really pissed that I signed up for online courses to get a degree and it requires real, flash, java, shockwave, adobe reader, and more. Luckily most of these work in linux hwoever on my PPC laptop real is not fully supported and neither is anyway of making shockwave work . I might give this a try.

Any word on if this works? Also, steps on how to do it?

1. Download Realplayer for Linux

2. Run and install it: take note of the directory which it installs

3. Inside its folder (there are two, can't remember which IIRC, I will go home and check later), there is a nother folder full of shared object files, I think it is in the "plugins" folder.

4. Create symlinks for all the shared object files.

5. Copy the symlinks to all the browser plugin folders you use.

6. Restart your browsers.

7. Your browsers should be able to play Shockwave files.

the above instructions didn't work for me... wondering if there is something i missed.

installed RealPlayer 10 gold to /usr/share/RealPlayer
symlinked all files in .../RealPlayer/plugins to .../mozilla-firefox/plugins

restarted firefox

hit shockwave.com and attempted to play a shockwave game... got the usual box stating i needed to install shockwave

Hmm, it worked for previous versions of Realplayer - (this was used with Real9), but probably perhaps they changed things around a bit.

Are there shared object files that you symlinked to? Did you symlink the entire folder, or just all the files?

Also, what I did was symlink to all other browser folders, or perhaps it is the filenames...

What shared object files are contained in there? I wonder if they correlate.