Re: Installing flash player into user's home dir. for chromium.

[Sthu Deus <sthu.deus@gmail.com>]

Good time of the day, Patrick.


Thank You, Patrick, for Your time and answer. You wrote:

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> ----- 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 chromium himself - in case the OS's one is outdated?!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?!
> 
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> 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.

I've downloaded the .tar.gz player, finally I got:

~/.moziila/plugins/libflashplayer.so

But chromium still asks for new version of FlashPlayer.

> 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.

Putting to

/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

dose the trick whereas

/usr/local/lib/mozilla/plugins

dose not.

Do You have any ideas on local home dir - why it does not work putting
the lib there ( ~/.moziila/plugins )?


Sthu.