flash, contrast and keyboard configuration... help please
 

I am not an expert yet... and probably my questions are dumb... but .. here it goes :o

I just finish installing Slackware64.13.1 and I had tried several times to install flash. I get so disappointed when I tried over and over and it just doesn't work.

I already downloaded the flash-plugin010.2.152-27-release.i386.rpm
and have the libflashplayer.so on my desktop file, and I tried to use locate firefox or mozilla and it keeps giving me error...
I assume that I have to copy libflashplayer.so in there, but I can't find it.

also the contrast and brightness is too high I see everything is too bright, can I change that and how?..
also, I configure my keyboard to es. for Spanish, but when I load the X it changes in English, and when I exit the X goes back to the Spanish configurations. (I can live with English configurations)but I write in Spanish most of the time.

.do I have to go through all the installation over again?

Thank you for your help....

As root, copy the libflashplayer.so to the plugins folder for your browser. For Firefox, that's /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. Restart the browser.

It's easier to download a tar.gz file, rather than an *.rpm, for all things Slackware. For additional software, learn your way around http://slackbuilds.org. It would be probably worth your while to browse through the Slackbook.

Regarding the contrast and brightness, most monitors, including laptops, include hardware controls.

For a monitor, look for menu keys (usually under the display); for laptops, look among the function keys for keys with likely looking symbols (on this here Dell, one key has a sort of outline of the sun with a down arrow next to it, the adjacent one has the same symbol with an up arrow, for brightness).

I had followed all this steps... and still doesn't want to work... :(

Thank Frankbell for your answer and for recommending the slackbook...I will take the time to read it...

I did what you said... I can't understand why if with prior slacks I had no problem adding the flash player, and with this one... is not driving me nuts yet...but I don't like it when I it doesn't work :)

As root, copy the libflashplayer.so to the plugins folder for your browser. For Firefox, that's /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. Restart the browser.


this is how it looks...

bash-4.1# cd /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins
bash-4.1# ls
libflashplayer.so libnpjp2.so skypebuttons.so
bash-4.1#

if is already in the plugins... what am I doing wrong?

thank you

all fixed!! :)

I just downloaded the flashplayer10_2_p3_64bit_linux_111710.tar.gz
unzipped it....
delete the libflashplayer.so libnpjp2.so on /usr/lib64/mozilla plugins and /usr/lib64/firefox/plugins

cp my new lib to those directories... and bingo.... it detected it!! :)

Thanks for your help... you are ok.. :)

Flor

Cool beans. Glad you got it working.

everytime I get something working it makes me feel like dancing!!! LOL

oh Yeah, Oh yeah... happy, happy, joy, joy!!
oh Yeah, Oh yeah... happy, happy, joy, joy!!
LOL



Now lets see, how will I do, installing OpenOffice :D

Get Open Office from http://slackbuilds.org.