Re: flash plugin
Bob McGowan wrote:
I've got iceweasel installed and the installed files list shows a
directory called 'plugins', located here:
/usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins
This is where I'd look to put the Flash files, if I wanted them to be
globally active (for all possible users of the system). But, you can
have a private plugin directory, for your account. Put the files in
$HOME/.mozilla/plugins, which does *not* exist by default, so you need
to create it.
The system plugin directory will always exist. Both Iceweasel and
Firefox have default plugins that are part of the base package and are
installed there.
I just downloaded a new plugin, for testing purposes, and put the .so
file in my .mozilla/plugins directory, and it loaded and ran perfectly.
In this case, the plugin loaded and worked without a restart of the
browser, but you may find it's necessary to exit and restart the browser
before some plugins work.
Bob
I downloaded the new plugin from the Adobe page + created
$HOME/.mozilla/plugins.
Untarred the tarball as user and ran ./flashplayer-installer.
It told me:
NOTE: Please ask your administrator to remove the xpti.dat from the
components directory of the Mozilla or Netscape browser.
which I did. Then about:plugins in iceweasel shows:
...
Shockwave Flash
File name: libflashplayer.so
Shockwave Flash 9.0 r31
Shockwave Flash
File name: libflashplayer.so
Shockwave Flash 7.0 r63
...
which is correct because the global installation still has 7.0 and my
private installation has 9.0.
However, when I go here:
http://www.latimes.com/
it still tells me I don't have the latest plugin.
Anybody else see that?
Hugo
Niels Rasmussen wrote:
Jonathan Kaye wrote:
Just get the tarball directly from Adobe. You can find it here:
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&promoid=BIOW
The installation instructions are on this link but I just manually
stick the
two files in ~/.mozilla/plugins. The files are flashplayer.xpt and
libflashplayer.so. I'm running Firefox and this is where it wants them.
Are you sure ?? (I had to create the plugins dir maually).
It doesn't work here :-/
I'm running debian testing (etch)
Could you please share some more info on this ?
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