trouble installing flashplayer for mozilla

golo · 09-04-2003, 01:51 PM

hi, i'm trying to install flash player to my mozilla browser ,and everything its allright until the command console aks me for the installation path, i wrote the directory /usr/lib/mozilla-1.0.1/plugins/ but there is message that said please enter a correct or valid directory, Also saids that flash player needs two font packages for the installation and i dont know what that means..I tried with other directorys but no one works. What can i do next? By the way, im using red hat 8.0

david_ross · 09-04-2003, 02:02 PM

Weclome to LQ.

IT should defaul to the mozilla dir within your home directoyr. Just use that it should be fine. Just run it as a user not as root.

h/w · 09-04-2003, 02:04 PM

u should install them in ur '~/.mozilla/plugins' dir. all ur plugins shud go there, as well as any other configs..

just say yes to the font options.

alternatively, instead of running the flash-installer, just copy the 2 lib files in the folder to ~/.mozilla/plugins

thats all the flash-installer does anyway, i think.

[NL]_Target · 09-05-2003, 12:01 PM

you could try this path for your instalation:
/usr/lib/mozilla-1.2.1/plugins
This is the instalation dir i had to use in order to install flash on my red hat 9.0 workstation. good luck!

Flatredline · 09-05-2003, 12:25 PM

also, try /usr/lib/mozilla-1.0.1 (no /plugins); that works on most distros

asraf_4u · 11-14-2008, 05:17 AM

solution for ur problem is to type ur installaion path like this /usr/lib/mozilla-1.7.8.

the number followed by mozilla is the version of ur browser.

it is located in /usr/lib/mozilla-1.7.8. by typing the path u can install the flash player installer into ur browser.

check what version mozilla browser you using, by visiting the folder /usr/lib/.

mrrangerman · 11-14-2008, 06:08 AM

Quote:

asraf_4u
solution for ur problem is to type ur installaion path like this /usr/lib/mozilla-1.7.8.

the number followed by mozilla is the version of ur browser.

it is located in /usr/lib/mozilla-1.7.8. by typing the path u can install the flash player installer into ur browser.

check what version mozilla browser you using, by visiting the folder /usr/lib/.

Er um did you happen to look at the last post date? 09-05-2003 01:25 PM I don't think it's a problem anymore.

ritam_bkp · 11-14-2008, 07:13 AM

instead u can also install gnash
which is similar to flash

mogrady · 11-15-2008, 08:00 PM

I was successful with PCLinuxOS 2007 installing flash following the "quick and dirty" method is the link below:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FirefoxNewVersion

Good Luck, Michael

claudius753 · 11-15-2008, 08:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mrrangerman

Er um did you happen to look at the last post date? 09-05-2003 01:25 PM I don't think it's a problem anymore.

I was wondering why the original question referenced RH 8 as his distribution, now I know why...