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Hello, I'm having trouble installing flash player 11 on Firefox 8. I haven't been able to find a solution yet, as all I've found refers to older version of firefox or flashplayer. I don't have any directory within Firefox called 'plugins' and I don't know where to move what. I have the .so extension file and a directory called 'usr' and I don't know where to move them. My computer runs a 13.37 Slackware on 32 bits.
This is one that you'll have to make yourself. But...as far as the flashplayer goes, mine is in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. If it's not there, make the folder, uncompress libflashplayer.so in there and allow read-only to everyone.
Root access needed to do this...but, hey, you know this
I always keep the flash plugin in my ~/.mozilla/plugins/ directory, but wherever you try to install it you'll have to make the directory for it if it doesn't exist yet, not too hard just
that folder is not there
most OS's use a /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
or
/usr/lib/browser-plugins
or
/usr/lib64/browser-plugins
me on Opensuse 11.4 64bit RUNNING THE 64BIT firefox8 ( not the 32 bit!!! )
and running the 64 bit flash 11 ( not the 32 bit!!! requiring "npwrapper.so" )
install flash to the /usr/?????/browser-plugins whatever folder
then link that folder to the Firefox 8 binary install in /usr/opt/firefox8/plugins ( or where ever you installed the ff8 folder )
This is one that you'll have to make yourself. But...as far as the flashplayer goes, mine is in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. If it's not there, make the folder, uncompress libflashplayer.so in there and allow read-only to everyone.
Root access needed to do this...but, hey, you know this
Good luck
THor
Yes ,the fact that the folder 'plugins' didn't exist confused me and I thought I needed to do something more, especially given the fact that after the extraction of the flashplayer.tar.gz there was this 'usr' folder which I didn't know what to do with either But now, after having created the folder, it worked just fine.
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