Re: flash plugin
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> 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.
Well, still no can do!
But found the answer anyway:
ERROR: Your architecture, \'x86_64\', is not supported by the
Adobe Flash Player installer.
:-(
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