Re: Mozilla and Flash
On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 12:47:22 -0500, Dave Walker wrote:
> Running Mozilla/5.0 1.7.8-1sarge10 (current stable release).
>
> I am curious whether it is possible to get some version of Flash to work?
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Here is what I did to this point:
>
> >apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree (appeared to download and
> install correctly)
>
> >From Mozilla > help > about Plug-ins - no Flash listed
>
> Searched for the Flash download.
> Found: /var/cache/apt/archives/flashplugin-nonfree_7.0.25-5_i386.deb
>
> Tried (as root) : dpkg -i flashplugin-nonfree_7.0.25-5_i386.deb
>
> Churned away a bit and returned to prompt.
>
> Still no Flash available in Mozilla.
>
> Went to youtube to determine if the plugin was installed but I was
> just too thick to see it.
> When clicking on a video, message shown was "JavaScript turned off or
> an old version of Flash Player....yadayada"
>
> Anybody got a hint or even better, a solution (one that does not
> involve -- wait for Etch, etc...I know someone wants to say that!) ???
Can you post the output of
dpkg -L flashplugin-nonfree | grep libflashplayer.so
(This will tell us where the relevant file is. Maybe mozilla cannot find
it; this can often be fixed by simply creating a symlink.)
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Regards,
Florian
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