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: Friday, January 18, 2013 7:34 AM
> Subject: Re: Installing flash player into user's home dir. for chromium.
>
>G ood time of the day, Patrick.
>
>
> Thank You, Patrick, for Your time and answer. You wrote:
>
>>
>> ----- 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 chromium himself - in case the OS's one is outdated?!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.
>
> 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 )?
This is a guess: Maybe, Chromium doesn't look there for plugins. Perhaps there is a way to tell Chromium where to look. I don't know. Check the user manual or contact the developer directly. I've always put plugins, regardless of the browser, in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins for 32-bit systems and 32-bit plugins, or /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins for 64-bit systems and 64-bit plugins.
Sorry I can't help more.
B
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