how to install macromedia flash plugin

skie_knite007 · 03-17-2005, 11:11 AM

I'm using Mandrake 10.1 on 2.6 kernel.

I'm not able tto install the macromedia flash plugin which I got from www.macromedia.com

Can anybody fix this problem out????????????????

Nobber · 03-17-2005, 11:13 AM

Can you at least tell us what you tried and what went wrong?

skie_knite007 · 03-17-2005, 11:16 AM

When asked for the installation dir,,,I gave the correct path
for both mozilla and konquerer but the some msg like intallation failed was displayed.

Nobber · 03-17-2005, 11:22 AM

If I remember correctly, "installing" the flash plugin just means copying two (?) files from the package tarball into ~/.mozilla/plugins (or wherever) and restarting mozilla. Strange that the installer can't manage this!

What are the contents of the package tarball? List them here and someone will be able to tell you which files to copy to your plugins directory.

wipe · 03-17-2005, 03:58 PM

If you look at the readme file, you'll see something like this:

Quote:

To manually install the plug-in for Linux, copy the following files to your browser's plugins folder:

libflashplayer.so
flashplayer.xpt

(The quote above is from Macromedia Flash Player Support Center, linked to from the Flash Player download page.)

The main plugins directory of Mozilla or Firefox is usually easy to find by searching for libnullplugin.so (eg. locate libnullplugin.so).

-- Simon