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can't get gnash to work

i installed everything, 0.7.1, the plugin went to ~/.mozilla/plugins. it shows up when i do about:plugins in firefox:

Code:

Shockwave Flash 8.0



    File name: libgnashplugin.so

    Gnash 0.7.1, the GNU Flash Player. 

    Copyright © 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.



    Gnash comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted 

by law. You may redistribute copies of Gnash under the 

terms of the GNU General Public License, with an 

additional special exception allowing linking with 

Mozilla, or any variant of Mozilla (such as Firefox), so 

long as the linking is through its standard plug-in 

interface. For more information about Gnash, see 

http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash.



MIME Type        Description        Suffixes        Enabled

application/x-shockwave-flash        Shockwave Flash 8.0        swf        Yes

but nothing appears on flash sites, or else it says i need flash 8. how do i get this thing working as a plugin? :confused:

I had the same experience on Debian ... gave up easily.

Why don't you try this one, and tell us if it works.

Slackware... the beauty of manual compiling (=

Quote:

Originally Posted by slackhack (Post 2371801)

i installed everything, 0.7.1, the plugin went to ~/.mozilla/plugins. it shows up when i do about:plugins in firefox:

Code:

Shockwave Flash 8.0



    File name: libgnashplugin.so

    Gnash 0.7.1, the GNU Flash Player. 

    Copyright © 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.



    Gnash comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted 

by law. You may redistribute copies of Gnash under the 

terms of the GNU General Public License, with an 

additional special exception allowing linking with 

Mozilla, or any variant of Mozilla (such as Firefox), so 

long as the linking is through its standard plug-in 

interface. For more information about Gnash, see 

http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash.



MIME Type        Description        Suffixes        Enabled

application/x-shockwave-flash        Shockwave Flash 8.0        swf        Yes

but nothing appears on flash sites, or else it says i need flash 8. how do i get this thing working as a plugin? :confused:

Hey friend,

Just to know, what is the version of Linux that you're using? Cause I compiled GNash manually with slackware and the slackbuilds.org scripts and it works great.

Cheers,
Dumdadum