[TriLUG] Flash player

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 14:50, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 10:11, Janyne Kizer wrote:
> > I am having problems with the Flash player and seeking some suggestions
> > for resolving this issue.  I have tried both 5 and 6.  5 was working
> > under Netscape 4.78 on RH 7.2 but at some point it stopped and I didn't
> > notice until about a month ago.  The libflashplayer.so file is in
> > /usr/lib/netscape/plugins right where it is supposed to be.  When 5
> > wasn't working I tried 6 but still no dice.  It doesn't show up in About
> > -> Plugins and it doesn't work when I go to sites with Flash.  I then
> > decided to try under Mozilla 1.2 and Mozilla crashes when either player
> > is installed, although Mozilla does say that Flash is installed in About
> > -> Plugins.  FWIW, it kinda works under Opera but it is flakey.
> > 
> 
> I think I read somewhere that the flash player needs to be *symlinked* 
> rather than copied to the plugins directory.  If you use the RPM version
> of the player, it will install the libraries somewhere else, and then
> you're supposed to put appropriate symbolic links in the mozilla or
> netscape directories.  You might try this and see if that changes the
> behavior any.
> 

The flash plugin rpm that I linked to has a setup script that is
run when the rpm is installed.  It automatically sets up these
symlinks.  The directories it looks in are the following:

/usr/lib/mozilla /usr/lib/mozilla-* /usr/lib/netscape /usr/lib/opera
/usr/lib/phoenix /usr/local/netscape /usr/local/mozilla
/usr/local/phoenix /opt/mozilla /opt/netscape /opt/phoenix

So, if you have an rpm system and install that rpm, it should
setup everything for you.

Also, it has a urpmi archive for Mandrake 8.2 and 9.0 and an 
apt repository for Red Hat 8.0 or 7.3, Conectiva 7.0, Debian, SuSE.

Cheers,
Tanner
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