Hi Everyone,

I'm trying to get a friends 64 bit laptop to play XM streaming audio. The OS is Mandriva 10.1. Whats installed to my knowledge:

mplayer, nswrapper, win32codecs. I get a popup window that says I need to install flashplayer from the Sirius/XM website. I downloaded the 64 bit version of Adobe flashplayer 'square'. When I unpacked it, it dropped libflashplayer.so at my feet and left. What folder(s) is this supposed to go into??

What add ons should be enabled in FireFox?

Secondly, are there any other programs required to make the streaming audio work correctly?

This person is partially visually handicapped and doesn't know anyone who can work with Linux, except me of course, and I'm no expert. I've got the machine running well, except for this bug.

Adriann

To install it, move the libflashplayer.so file to ~/.mozilla/plugins, and then restart Firefox.

Hi Guru, thank you for your help!

I did exactly as you described, as root no less. I did a system restart (take no chances)
and it still says "You need to install flashplayer."

Any other ideas??


Adriann

as root you moved libflashplayer.so
to
/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/
then closed and restarted firefox ?

If you are moving it to under your /home directory, you want to do it as a normal user, not root. Moving files in a user's home directory as root is unnecessary and more than likely will just screw up the permissions so the user account itself can't access the file (which may be what happened here). If you install it under /usr like mecelec415 suggests, then you have to use root.

Both will have the same effect, but installing to /home only applies to the single user while installing to /usr makes it system-wide. As this is (presumably) a single-user machine, the end result will be the same.

Have you checked the "about:plugins" page in Firefox to see what it says about your installed plugins? It could be that Flash has installed properly, but the website itself is having trouble detecting it.