installing flash player

boy_to_man · 12-21-2006, 02:16 AM

hi all

i download flash-player but it in .tar.gz when i decompress it have only file.so dont have configure file.so .How can i install or use it.

Thanks a lot

Nylex · 12-21-2006, 03:16 AM

Copy the file to your plugins directory, as per the installation instructions.

Mara · 12-21-2006, 02:13 PM

Thread title changeg.

PTrenholme · 12-21-2006, 03:01 PM

The problem may be which plugin directory to use. I dropped it into one, and then symlinked the others to it, vis.:

Code:

$ ls -l `locate libflashplayer.so`
lrwxrwxrwx 1 peter peter      42 Dec 11 19:26 /home/peter/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so -> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root  root       42 Dec 11 19:31 /usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.8/plugins/libflashplayer.so -> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root  root       42 Dec 11 19:25 /usr/lib/mozilla-1.7.13/plugins/libflashplayer.so -> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root  root  6753912 Oct 18 12:15 /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

By the way, that's the Flash 9 Beta 2, which works much better that the Flash 7 one.

<edit>
Oh, I just installed Firefox 2.0.0.1, and it picked up the Flash 9 plugin from the mosillz/plugins directory (or my .mozilla/plugins symlink) so I didn't need the firefox/plugins symlinks.
</edit>

mushk45 · 12-21-2006, 03:21 PM

go to the directory where the file.so is,

type:

Code:

chmod +x *.so
mv *.so ~/.mozilla/plugins

that worked for me.

boy_to_man · 12-21-2006, 06:49 PM

Thanks for all your reply

Im using mozilla and firefox for webbrowser, ur answer have help me resolved the "installmissingplugin" board- when use firefox.
But i want play a file.swf ,so how can i play that file in fedora 6.0
i think i must install macromedia flash player right?

PS:Sorry all
I have try to play *swf in mozilla and its ok. Thanks for all your help
cheer