Flash Player

[Rem P Roberti]

Chris Maness wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>

Yep, all the sylinks are correctly in place.

Rem