Re: wheezy konqueror - cannot download Adobe Flashplayer
On Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:45:14 +0000, Walter Hurry wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:19:27 +0000, Camaleón wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:49:43 +0000, Sian Mountbatten wrote:
>>
>>> Camaleón wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, 03 Nov 2011 23:21:13 +0000, Sian Mountbatten wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Konqueror displays the following when I try to download Ubuntu APT
>>>>> version --/cfusion/downloadcenter/flashplayer/otherversions/[object
>>>>> HTMLAnchorElement]/
>>>>
>>>> (...)
>>>>
>>>> Try with the tar.gz file. It is the easiest way to get the plugin
>>> from
>>>> Adobe's site. You only have to place the "*.so" file into the plugins
>>>> folder.
>>>>
>>> I tried that, but it did not work. However, from another reply, I have
>>> installed the flashplugin-nonfree package which does work.
>>
>> Maybe is that you did something wrong because this option has been
>> working since years for me :-)
>
> Indeed. As I understand it all the flashplugin-nonfree does in essence
> is to install a script which effectively does the same thing.
>
> For my part, all I do (for Firefox/Iceweasel) is download the .tgz from
> Adobe, extract libflashplayer.so, throw away anything else, copy it into
> the plugins directory (/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins in my case) and set
> the permissions appropriately.
To clarify, that means I do the same as Camaleón.
Permissions should be 755, btw.
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