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1. should be extremely easy to install in the latest, or probably any, version of firefox. generally requires you to click the message that appears at the top of the browser when your on a page with flash and you dont have it installed and click 'install missing plugins' or something similar. should be no further configuration (well iv never had to).
2. search lq.org or visit java.sun.com or anywhere else. theres an overabundance of information/walkthroughs/tutorials of how to do it. i find the official one from java.sun.com is easiest.
3. i dont know about a port to linux, but id imagine you could find codecs for this type of media. search around.
4. theres no official linux port yet, but there are many programs 'like' itunes for linux.. with music libraries, etc. but no 'iTunes'.
5. see #3. there are codecs for windows media for linux, search around for it.
1. should be extremely easy to install in the latest, or probably any, version of firefox. generally requires you to click the message that appears at the top of the browser when your on a page with flash and you dont have it installed and click 'install missing plugins' or something similar. should be no further configuration (well iv never had to).
ok I tried that but it isnt picking it up. Windows does it like this with no problems. Will installing it on root help?
I'm having the same problem as well. I'm also running Fedora Core 5 (2.6.17-1.2139_FC5)and I have Firefox 1.5.0.4. I decided to go to the Macromedia website and download the flash player (it's in tar.gz). I extracting the file and started to install I got the following messages:
To install Macromedia Flash Player 7 now, press ENTER.
To cancel the installation at any time, press Control-C.
NOTE: Macromedia Flash Player requires two font packages
to be installed, ttfonts and urw-fonts.
Press ENTER to continue...
NOTE: Please exit any browsers you may have running.
Press ENTER to continue...
--------- Install Action Summary -----------
Macromedia Flash Player 7 will be installed in the following directory:
Mozilla installation directory = /home/michael/.mozilla
Proceed with the installation? (y/n/q): y
NOTE: Please ask your administrator to remove the xpti.dat from the
components directory of the Mozilla or Netscape browser.
Installation complete....then it ask to me if I wanted to do another installation
Flash player 7 did not work. After doing some research on google, I decided to rename xpti.dat file to xpti.dat.bak, and made sure that the file xpti.dat file was not there (the xpti.dat file is automatically generated). The flash player still did not work. I tried to install it under root with xpti.dat present, renamed (to xpti.dat.bak), then I tried it again with the file removed, but it still does not work.
Then I tried something that I got over the Internet:
First make two directories, so the installer thinks the $HOME directory is actually the mozilla directory and plop the nice files in the directories :-) knoppix@ttyp3[knoppix]$ cd install_flash_player_7_linux/
knoppix@ttyp3[install_flash_player_7_linux]$ mkdir $HOME/components $HOME/plugins
knoppix@ttyp3[install_flash_player_7_linux]$ ./
flashplayer-installer libflashplayer.so
knoppix@ttyp3[install_flash_player_7_linux]$ ./flashplayer-installer
Copyright(C) 2002-2003 Macromedia, Inc. All rights reserved.
Macromedia Flash Player 7 for Linux
Macromedia Flash Player 7 will be installed on this machine.
This still did not work and still get the xpti.dat message. Does anybody have any suggestions?
Kencaz,
I tried to move the files like you said but it did not work.
nadroj,
Thanks a lot for the first link I got it to work now. After downloading the rpm and tried some other things that the website suggested, I finally typed yum install flash-plugin and now it works.
Kencaz,
I tried to move the files like you said but it did not work.
nadroj,
Thanks a lot for the first link I got it to work now. After downloading the rpm and tried some other things that the website suggested, I finally typed yum install flash-plugin and now it works.
Thanks again for the help everybody
I have all the same troubles with the Flash plugin.
For this solution I get
yum install flash-plugin
No Match for argument: flash-plugin
Nothing to do
Any help other than using Windows where this all works in a flash... ;-)
Could you please provide another link to this file? When I click on it, I'm redirected to a news page. I searched for the file, but there were no results on that site. Thanks.
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