Macromedia Flashplayer & Firefox...

Southpaw76 · 12-01-2006, 05:51 PM

Hello all,
I installed the Flashplayer plugin in Firefox and I noticed that when I installed the plugin the script states that this plugin requires ttfonts and urw-fonts....

Does this mean that....
a) I need to get these font packages and re-install this plugin or re-compile Firefox???
or,
b) Do I already have these font packages installed in the Slackware installation, and that is just a standard message, which lets me know that I have to re-configure Firefox after I install that plugin, or something???

....any suggestions???

stormtracknole · 12-01-2006, 06:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Southpaw76

Hello all,
I installed the Flashplayer plugin in Firefox and I noticed that when I installed the plugin the script states that this plugin requires ttfonts and urw-fonts....

Does this mean that....
a) I need to get these font packages and re-install this plugin or re-compile Firefox???
or,
b) Do I already have these font packages installed in the Slackware installation, and that is just a standard message, which lets me know that I have to re-configure Firefox after I install that plugin, or something???

....any suggestions???

What version of flash are you using? You can download the latest beta 9 release for linux at linuxpackages.net. Or, go to the macromedia website and dowload their gunzip file. Unpack it, and copy the libflashplayer.so file to /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/ directory. Hope this works!

Southpaw76 · 12-01-2006, 06:35 PM

Yeah, I grabbed the Flash Player version 7 that's available in the Firefox Themes & Extensions section. I did see the .tgz package for Flash 9 on Linuxpackages.net, however I have read that has problems with Firefox 2.

Yes, I'm using Firefox 2 and I'm wondering if there is any truth to that???

stormtracknole · 12-01-2006, 06:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Southpaw76

Yeah, I grabbed the Flash Player version 7 that's available in the Firefox Themes & Extensions section. I did see the .tgz package for Flash 9 on Linuxpackages.net, however I have read that has problems with Firefox 2.

Yes, I'm using Firefox 2 and I'm wondering if there is any truth to that???

I'm also using it with Firefox2. I haven't had any issues that i know off. I think you should be ok using it. You could always remove it from the plugin folder if it gives you problems.

Sephiroth · 12-02-2006, 06:16 AM

I was using flash 7 for linux and firefox 2 with no problems at all also. But for me the installer didn't work properly, even though it copied the files into the right directory, firefox still wouldn't use them. In the end I deleted them from the folder and copied them over myself manually. Worked like a charm.

Southpaw76 · 12-02-2006, 11:31 AM

Right, But did you get the same message that I got regarding ttfonts & urw-fonts???

Sephiroth · 12-02-2006, 11:53 AM

it's been a long time but I'm sure I did, because it's in the main install script. I just continued anyway and slack must've figured it out. I have no problem with flash content on mozilla or firefox, which I later installed.

gegechris99 · 12-02-2006, 03:30 PM

I installed the following package: Flashplugin 7.0.63.0.

http://www.slacky.it/index.php?optio...ileinfo&id=741

It works fine with firefox 2 on Slackware 11.0. I never got any message concerning ttfonts & urw-fonts??

Also to be able to hear sound with swf files in firefox, add your user to group audio

Southpaw76 · 12-02-2006, 04:33 PM

Well, here we go...
I installed the latest flash-beta from linuxpackages.net for Firefox_2 under Slackware_11

. All went well until my first true test. I went over to Maximonline.com, where in order to watch videos there it requires the latest version of Flash. So, when I did that, I clicked on a vid and Firefox froze up

.

So my question is,
is this the correct solution to that problem...
Posted by: Ken Zalewski

Quote:

The installer places the Flash plugin under /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ because that directory is the central place for plugins that are Mozilla-based. The Firefox wrapper script sets MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ so that plugins for Firefox can be found there. If you are not using a Slackware-based Firefox package, then Firefox will not find plugins in that directory, and will only look in /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/. In that case, you can create a symbolic link in /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/ that points to the Flash plugin in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/.

I only ask before I try, in case anyone else has had to do it this way????

stormtracknole · 12-02-2006, 05:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Southpaw76

Well, here we go...
I installed the latest flash-beta from linuxpackages.net for Firefox_2 under Slackware_11

. All went well until my first true test. I went over to Maximonline.com, where in order to watch videos there it requires the latest version of Flash. So, when I did that, I clicked on a vid and Firefox froze up

.

So my question is,
is this the correct solution to that problem...
Posted by: Ken Zalewski

I only ask before I try, in case anyone else has had to do it this way????

If you are using Firefox 2.0, then you need to copy libflashplayer.so from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and paste it on /usr/lib/firefox/plugins. By default, the package from linuxpackages writes the file in the mozilla plugin folder. The new firefox version doesn't use that folder. Try that and see if it works.