Re: Flash plugin

dlwiggers <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.mandrake.newbie
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Chris wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 11:21 -0400, dlwiggers wrote:
>> Times like this humble me. <sigh>
>>
>> Can someone refresh my memory on plugin installation.
>>
>> I have been trying to install flash 10.0.32.18 in firefox 1.9.0.14 for 
>> an hour now.
>>
>> I started with the rpm and have it installed, but what next?
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Lee
> Lee, I've always just installed from the source file and copied the .so
> over to the plugins folder. I have have the libflashplayer.so file
> located /home/chris/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
> 
> Chris
> 
That's where I started this morning, Chris.

I finally wound up in /usr/lib64/firefox-3.0.14 where I had to add the 
directory /plugins and add the libflashplayer.so that I found on an 
obscure site in libflashplayer-10.0.32.18.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz

None of this was documented anywhere that I could find, although I did 
trip on enough hints to keep me looking.

I think I'm in my 8th or 9th Linux year, and still a newbie.

I would be curious if someone has an easier way to do this.

Sincerely,

Lee
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