[TriLUG] Flash player

Janyne Kizer janyne_kizer at ncsu.edu
Fri Jan 17 11:08:12 EST 2003


The thing is, neither Flash Player 5 nor Flash Player 6 will work under
Netscape 4.78 or Mozilla 1.2.  Under Netscape the files are not detected
and under Mozilla, flash sites crash the browser.

Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 11:00, Jerry M. Howell II wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 10:54:02AM -0500, Jim Ray wrote:
> > >> i don't have the read me file in front of me at the moment yet
> > >> didn't have any problem getting it to work w/ rh8.  weren't there
> > >> 2 files?  maybe the other was a man page or something.
> > >
> > > The libflashplayer.so file is in /usr/lib/netscape/plugins
> > Yes, I beleve there should be a .class file there as well.
> 
> Actually, newer versions of the flash player don't use the
> .class file.  On my mandrake 9 system, here's what I get
> when I list the flash-plugin rpm:
> 
> % rpm -ql flash-plugin
> /usr/lib/flash-plugin/LICENSE
> /usr/lib/flash-plugin/flashplayer.xpt
> /usr/lib/flash-plugin/homecleanup
> /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
> /usr/lib/flash-plugin/setup
> /usr/lib/flash-plugin/show-license
> 
> I got the flash 6 player, btw, from
> http://ruslug.rutgers.edu/macromedia/
> 
> Cheers,
> Tanner
> 
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Janyne Kizer
Systems Programmer Administrator
NC State University, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences
Extension Information Technology



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