Re: Flash Player ?
On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 07:55:24PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
> What's the Debian way of installing a Flash Player plugin for Netscape?
The Debian way, of course, would be to find a .deb package for flash player. Since flash player is not Open Source, it may be difficult to find such a creature. I performed a search on the debian web site and got no results. Fortunately, the Debian way seems to be compatible with the non-Debian way, as long as the non-debian way consists of installing from .tar.gz files and not from .rpm and friends. You can install .rpm's, of course, you just have to check you dependencies manually and use the --no-deps flag to force install when rpm complains that needed packages aren't installed.
It has been a while since I installed flash player for Netscape, and back then it was on a SuSE system. As I recall I downloaded a .tar.gz file from www.macromedia.com, unpacked it and cp'd the files (there were about 4) to (I think!) /usr/local/netscape/plugins/. Then restarted Netscape and everything was great. The exact instructions are all on the website and in README files that came with the .tar.gz. I remember reading somewhere that, according to the Linux Filesystem Heirarchy Standard (I may have that name wrong), the /usr/local/ directory is kept safe from package managers, and you should always be able to install .tar.gz files there without messing up your package database. Can't remember where I saw that though.....
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> originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit
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