Hi Guys,

I use the Internet among other things for downloading Crosswords.
My problem is that although I can print off a puzzle (although not very well) I cannot view it onscreen as I apparently need a plugin. This is I assume to be Macromedia Flash.
OK so I downloaded the plugin (MMFlash 7) and installed it as per instructions but nothing has changed. That is I still cannot read the Crosswords onscreen.
My browser is Firefox 1.05 as supplied with Mandriva2006.
Do I need to update my browser to the latest version, i.e Firefox 1.5 and if so do I need to delete the old version and re-install the new or will the new version merely update the older version?

Thanks in advance for any assistance,

Leonardo38

The Macromedia Flash plugin comes in a file named install_flash_player_7_linux.tar.gz. You can d/l it from here.
When you untar it you will have among other, the files flashplayer.xpt and libflashplayer.so. Copy them to the plugins subdirectory of your firefox and restart firefox.

I'd rather suggest this site, it requires you click the right link(s) and nothing else.

OK, so I installed Flash but with no improvement.
So I went to the website on Firefox using Win2K and apparently what I need is the Java Runtime programme which I downloaded along with the install instructions (printed out).

I can unTar this with no problem but I cannot find 'Firefox' under root /usr/share or anywhere else in the root /usr/ directory.
The only reference to 'Firefox' appears in my /myname/home directory as /myname/home/.firefox so I assume that I need to untar the j2re to this directory.

Or do I need to do this as superuser in 'root'?

Now I am really confused,

Leonardo38

No, unpack it everywhere you want, e.g. /usr/local/share
In order to make it work with Firefox you should copy (or create a link) only one library from the entire package. I cannot remember which one exactly, you can find it in the documentation provided either along with jre or on their site.

PS
Firefox usually located /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox, at least in Debian

It's usually called something like libjavaplugin_oji.so.

by the way this site has the official Flash packages for various Linus distributions