Re: Installing flash player into user's home dir. for chromium.
----- Original Message -----
> From: Sthu Deus <sthu.deus@gmail.com>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Cc:
> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 6:24 AM
> Subject: Installing flash player into user's home dir. for chromium.
>
>G ood time of the day.
>
>
> I wonder how a user can install adobe flash player (library?) for
> chromium himself - in case the OS's one is outdated?!
>
> Currently Debian wiki tells that it can be achieved though
> update-non-free-something install - but what about users' own
> "installation"?!
>
> - At adobe web site said that the user has to download a tar.gz from
> the web site - then put *.so file (the biggest) into chromium plug-in directory.
> But the problem is that there is no such a dir.
>
> So, question is, Is it possible - for users to put the downloaded
> player to their homes and thus be happy - w/o a need for root to be
> involved?!
Check if the user home directory has a hidden .moziila/plugins directory. This is one of several defaults that browsers search for plugins. If not, add it, place the flash player plugin in it and see what happens.
Other places that are searched are /usr/lib (or lib64)/mozilla/plugins, the browser's install directory which may be in /local or /opt instead of /usr, but they all require root access to copy files there.
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