Flash Player

[Chris Maness]

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).