Flash Player

[Joseph Vella]

On Tuesday 07 March 2006 21:22, Chris Maness wrote:
> Joseph Vella wrote:
> > On Monday 06 March 2006 22:34, Duane Whitty wrote:
> >> On Tuesday 07 March 2006 01:42, Chris
> >>
> >>> I installed these ports.  Is there
> >>> anything I need to do to the browser
> >>> to get it to recognize them, because
> >>> flash is still not working.
> >>
> >> Sorry, I forgot to mention that for
> >> firefox you want to make a symbolic
> >> link from
> >>
> >>  /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin6/libflashplayer.so
> >>
> >> to
> >>
> >> /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so
> >>
> >> and from
> >>
> >> /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin6/flashplayer.xpt
> >>
> >> to
> >>
> >> /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so
> >>
> >> (Shamelessly copied from a previous
> >> post :)
> >> _______________________________________________
> >
> > There's a typo in the last link: it should be
> > from
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin6/flashplayer.xpt
> > to
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/plugins/flashplayer.xpt
> >
> > I put my links into /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins instead of
> > firefox/plugins and I'm then able to view flash in konqueror as well as
> > firefox.
> >
> >
> > Also I had to create a file named /etc/libmap.conf with the following in
> > it:
> >
> > # Flash6 with Konqueror
> > [/usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin6/libflashplayer.so]
> > libpthread.so.0                 pluginwrapper/flash6.so
> > libdl.so.2                      pluginwrapper/flash6.so
> > libz.so.1                       libz.so.3
> > libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3        libstdc++.so.5
> > libm.so.6                       libm.so.4
> > libc.so.6                       pluginwrapper/flash6.so
> >
> >
> >
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> Thanks, that worked for firefox.  It didn't seem to work for Konqurer
> (but don't really use it anyway).

Oh yeah, I also had to go into the settings for konqueror and click a button 
something like "scan for plugins", after that, flash in Konqueror worked too.