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Re: install of moz plugins



On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 04:56:28PM -0700, Richard Weil wrote:
| What's the proper way to install a mozilla plugin, like Flash, that
| obviously isn't packaged?

I used gtm (wget) to download the tar, unpacked it in a tmp directory,
copied libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
and restarted galeon (mozilla).

| I went ahead and installed the Flash plugin per its instructions,
| i.e. copying a few files into /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. Is there a
| different, more technically correct approach, like installing in
| /usr/local/bin and creating a symlink or something?  Just curious.

Hmm, might be good to make a copy there just for safety's sake.

-D

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