Who said shockwave couldn't be played on Linux? It can...
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Who said shockwave couldn't be played on Linux? It can...
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.
Last edited by natalinasmpf; 03-20-2004 at 01:34 PM.
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.
Originally posted by natalinasmpf 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.
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.
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