Flash Player

[Chris Maness]

Joseph Vella wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>   
Perfect, thanks.  I'm kind of a newbie, so the extra hand holding is 
appreciated.