[SOLVED] Problems with Flash Player in Firefox and LILO
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I'm a newbie in Slackware and have two problems so will try to ask them in one topic. Slackware is 14.1.
First problem is about installing Flash Player in Firefox (now it's 31.8.0 ESR). First try was to download latest version for Linux from Adobe official site than unpack it and copy libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins and copy it's usr folder to my /usr. But it doesn't work. Than I removed it and try to install Flash in different way. I did
Why are you using LILO? GRUB2 is the standart - perhaphs not in Slackware?
Where is the flashplugin installed? (directory).
LILO is still the standart for Slackware and comes with it. It is possible to boot Slackware with GRUB2 too but I had prefer to use LILO by default.
Flashplugin is in /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins (there is libflashplayer.so in this directory or what file should I find?).
@Keruskerfuerst: grub is shipped in Slackware but not used for installation.
@Hasek39:
That's really two unrelated topics, so to make things easier to follow next time please open one thread for each.
The lilo warning is nothing to worry about. It just informs you that you as you didn't specify how it would generate addresses it will generate 32-bit Logical Block Addresses instead of cylinder/head/sector addresses. LBA32 is the default anyway nowadays. Scroll down to "lba32" in "man lilo.conf" to know more.
About flash, I have no clue, but hopefully someone else will help you.
If you just performed a fresh install, then you most likely don't have Flash at all since it isn't delivered with a standard install. Go to the /extra folder on the CD/DVD and install it from there.
Why are you using LILO? GRUB2 is the standart - perhaphs not in Slackware?
Where is the flashplugin installed? (directory).
Lilo is default and works well. The reason it is default Pat has worked hard to make it an easy install with secure boot.
Grub2 is there I prefer that. Since it is done the slackware way vanilla I find grub2 to be very proficient. Unlike
other distro's I use to develop in. They have hacked it tried to make it look like some M$ instead of Linux.
especially with the default time of 5 seconds to boot wow.
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First problem is about installing Flash Player in Firefox (now it's 31.8.0 ESR). First try was to download latest version for Linux from Adobe official site than unpack it and copy libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins and copy it's usr folder to my /usr. But it doesn't work. Than I removed it and try to install Flash in different way. I did
go to youtube.https://www.youtube.com/html5 and there you can set your cookies to use html5 or flashplayer.
you may want to clear your cookies from other sights. if this is for a gaming experience that is embedded flash and some of that is hit and miss. And comes down to many other variables.
As to where flash is installed it is installed exactly where the Adobe developers wanted it to be installed in Slackwhere and comes with some kde shared files like the developers wanted.
go to youtube.https://www.youtube.com/html5 and there you can set your cookies to use html5 or flashplayer.
you may want to clear your cookies from other sights. if this is for a gaming experience that is embedded flash and some of that is hit and miss. And comes down to many other variables.
As to where flash is installed it is installed exactly where the Adobe developers wanted it to be installed in Slackwhere and comes with some kde shared files like the developers wanted.
I switched to use HTML5 on YouTube. Now I can watch video but have no sound in it. How can I fix it? I had already configured sound on my computer and it's OK but what can be wrong with Firefox?
If you just performed a fresh install, then you most likely don't have Flash at all since it isn't delivered with a standard install. Go to the /extra folder on the CD/DVD and install it from there.
I haven't got CD or DVD because I got Slackware through torrent from slackware.com.
just having libflashplayer.so in /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/ should make it work
go to aboutlugins to make sure
go to about:addons -> plugins to turn it on
sometimes ff will not autorun flash, mostly when your version is not the current one
it will still ask you if you want to run it
if you need flash only for youtube, do consider using html5
flash is a very bad program
I have libflashplayer.so in /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/ but unfortunately it doesn't work! (checked plugins and addons -- they are enabled)
My current situation is that I have video and haven't sound in browser. I had found this: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1068375
Could anyone help me to install gst-plugins-bad?
Code:
# slackpkg install gst-plugins-bad
Looking for gst-plugins-bad in package list. Please wait... DONE
No packages match the pattern for install. Try:
/usr/sbin/slackpkg reinstall|upgrade
as for gst plugins bad, you are better off installing gst-ffmpeg (from slackbuilds)
This link says that I already have version 11.2.202.491 installed. But I cannot watch something with Flash at all and if I watch some HTML5 video I haven't sound in it.
Code:
# slackpkg install gst-ffmpeg
Looking for gst-ffmpeg in package list. Please wait... DONE
No packages match the pattern for install. Try:
/usr/sbin/slackpkg reinstall|upgrade
Sorry for too newbie question but could you explain what are correct console commands to install/remove something from different sources in Slackware? If something is in Slackware's repositories I just can do slackpkg install something, right? If I downloaded something for example from http://slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds how should I install it? If I need to remove something it will be done just by slackpkg remove something, right?
I have installed Chromium and there is no sound in it too so problem isn't in Firefox. Sound works fine when I play music or video from computer but there is no way to use something from the internet.
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