Flash Player

[Chris Maness]

Rem P Roberti wrote:
> 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.
>>
>>
>>   
>
>
> Boy, I did all of the above, and I still can't get Firefox to work 
> with Flash Player.  What to do...what to do.
>
> Rem
Make sure you do:

# ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin6/libflashplayer.so 
/usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so

as well.