From: "Andrew J. Barr" <andrew.james.barr@gmail.com>
To: "Michael Fothergill" <mikef20000@hotmail.com>
CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: dumb question about mozilla plugin directory location....
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:20:35 -0400
On 8/13/07, Michael Fothergill <mikef20000@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Debianists,
>
> I downloaded flashplayer9.
>
> I downloaded it to my home directory /home/mikef/
>
> I then did tar -zxf on it and it nicely made a little directory with
> flashplayer in it in my /home/mikef directory......
Is there any reason you didn't use the non-free repository and then
apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree?
> So far so good.
>
> I then followed an instruction from a web site to put the flashplayer
lib
> file in the moziila plugins directory....
>
> It went like this:
>
> mikef@localhost:~$ mv install_flash_player_9_linux/flashplayer.xpt
> install_flash_player_9_linux/libflashplayer.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/
> mv: target `/home/mikef/.mozilla/plugins/' is not a directory: No such
file
> or directory
> mikef@localhost:~$
>
>
> As you can see it didn't work. I am not so confident about this
> ~/.mozilla/plugins/ stuff....
>
> What does that do again?
>
> I tried searching the web but I can't find the full length path link to
> where these files are supposed to go to.....
>
> A hint to fix this command would be helpful.
>
> Regards
>
> Michael Fothergill
>
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