[SOLVED] Slackware 14 and flash (help please)

darry1966 · 10-29-2013, 02:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by the-jub

Been trying to install flash in slackware 14 for 4 days now with no success. Here's what I've tried.

Downloaded this package
http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slac...ugin/pkg/14.0/

Unpacked it (using ark) to root and moved the libflashplayer.so file to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins . Then logged in to my user account started Firefox and went to youtube. tried to watch a video, it didn't work

So then I took the libflashplayer.so file out of /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and deleted the unpacked package from root.

Then as root I used pkgtool, found the downloaded package in /Downloads and installed it. This also didn't work. So I uninstalled the flash package using the remove option from pkgtool.

Next I tried
installpkg flashplayer-plugin-11.2.202.310-i386-1alien.txz
as root, and it all looked good, it took a bit of time to install like 30 seconds to a minute but it confirmed the install to me and dropped me back at the prompt. so I logged in to the user account tried to watch a youtube video and nothing happened..

what to do now any ideas?

What is your computers specs some older AMD machines can't use flash 11

ReaperX7 · 10-29-2013, 03:38 PM

If you can't use Flash, try Gnash. Gnash is built off an older Flash player spec, but it should work for various multimedia websites.

There should be a SlackBuild for it, but LFS has instructions to install it on their website from the BLFS book in case it doesn't exist.

dr.s · 10-29-2013, 06:00 PM

Here's a few things you might want to try:

1-In firefox address bar, type

Code:

about:config

and locate preference key plugin.expose_full_path, make sure it's set to true, then in another tab type

Code:

about:plugins

in the address bar and see if you can find the section titled Shockwave Flash, it should display the plugin file details and its state (enabled or not).

2-Try manually installing the plugin to your user's directory: download the tar.gz package from http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ and extract the libflashplayer.so file, copy it to ~/.mozilla/plugins directory, restart firefox and re-test. Post the output of step 1.

3-In Konsole, type firefox to launch Firefox from the command line (instead of using a shortcut) then navigate to some page with flash content and see what error messages are displayed in the console.

darry1966 · 10-29-2013, 06:55 PM

[QUOTE=dr.s;5054824]Here's a few things you might want to try:

1-In firefox address bar, type

Code:

about:config

and locate preference key plugin.expose_full_path, make sure it's set to true, then in another tab type

Code:

about:plugins

in the address bar and see if you can find the section titled Shockwave Flash, it should display the plugin file details and its state (enabled or not).

2-Try manually installing the plugin to your user's directory: download the tar.gz package from http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ and extract the libflashplayer.so file, copy it to ~/.mozilla/plugins directory, restart firefox and re-test. Post the output of step 1.

3-In Konsole, type firefox to launch Firefox from the command line (instead of using a shortcut) then navigate to some page with flash content and see what error messages are displayed in the console.[/QUOTE

Sorry about this but it should be /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

dr.s · 10-29-2013, 08:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by darry1966

Sorry about this but it should be /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

Not quite, according to mozilla's documentation --> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Determinin...ctory_on_Linux

cfdisk · 10-29-2013, 10:44 PM

You could be banging your head against the wall at the end of the tunnel.

On the serious note, please see:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...4/#post4877910

darry1966 · 10-29-2013, 11:13 PM

My Installation of slackware 14 32bit has it there as has this

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...3-37-a-934296/

there is definately no flash at the mentioned directory I have both firefox and seamonkey working flash from there.

I do agree with downloading method of the archived file but again I must also mention some AMD machines like mine cannot use version 11 which is really annoying believe me.

the-jub · 10-30-2013, 08:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cfdisk

You could be banging your head against the wall at the end of the tunnel.

On the serious note, please see:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...4/#post4877910

You are a genius cfdisk, cat /proc/cpuinfo flags had sse not sse2! So I downloaded the archived flash 10.3 from here http://download.macromedia.com/pub/f...90_archive.zip unpacked it twice (first is a zip file and inside that is the tar.gz). Then placed the libflashplayer.so file in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins . Went to youtube in firefox and to my amazement the video played nicely

Thank you very much.

ruario · 10-30-2013, 08:53 AM

You are probably aware but I will state it nonetheless, older flash has security issues. I would only let it run on sites that you have some level of trust in.

the-jub · 10-30-2013, 11:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ruario

You are probably aware but I will state it nonetheless, older flash has security issues. I would only let it run on sites that you have some level of trust in.

Thanks ruario, I have Flashblock and NoScript plugins for Firefox ;-)

ruario · 10-30-2013, 11:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by the-jub

Thanks ruario, I have Flashblock and NoScript plugins for Firefox ;-)

Then you are good to go!