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I've installed the flash player via installpkg command
What? Give more details, please, about what you downloaded and the commands you used to install it.
As for the video codecs, I usually run mplayer and install the mplayerplug-in, but both would be unofficial packages. I don't know if there's a solution with official packages.
You can get mplayer and the mplayer plugin from http://linuxpackages.net/. I use them and they work fine. It does not include mencoder though, so if you need that as well try the one from http://slackbuilds.org/. I think that includes mencoder.
For flash, get it from adobe: http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/downl...sion=Netscape4
Instructions for installing it are on that page. Or you can just extract the .tar.gz to a folder (tar -xvzf install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz) and copy the libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ folder. That works too. You do not seem to need the libflashplayer.xpt. It works fine without it.
oh I've downloaded the rpm version and used rpm2tgz to convert it to slackware package and then installed it via installpkg command, reason being that I wanted a way to easily remove it if I wanted to via removepkg but I guess it didn't work.
Just curious, how do most of you manage packages, do you all like ./configure && make then make install? If that's the way then wouldn't it be a pain in the ass to go through the log files to remove them? Or do you use a program like checkinstall, etc?
Just curious, how do most of you manage packages, do you all like ./configure && make then make install? If that's the way then wouldn't it be a pain in the ass to go through the log files to remove them? Or do you use a program like checkinstall, etc?
Yeah, programs like that make it a lot more convenient. (I use paco, I think it's considerably more flexible and featureful than most others.)
The more popular packages on linuxpackages are usually ok. But I've found Slackbuilds to work much better on several occasions. Now, if you're in a hurry, linuxpackages is probably ok in most cases.
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