Re: [SLUG] installing flash in fedora

From: gregory ogden (svrogao@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Jan 09 2005 - 16:37:55 EST


Thanks for the info. I'll try later when I have some
time and post the ( hopefully positive ) results.
--- Kwan Lowe <kwan@digitalhermit.com> wrote:

> gregory ogden wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > I am a complete novice when it comes to
> linux
> > and computing in general. I have been trying to
> > install flash player, following the instructions
> given
> > by macromedia, but to no avail. I am running the
> > latest fedora core and everything else seems to be
> > working fine. Any suggestions would be
> appreciated.
>
> About all you have to do is copy flashplayer.xpt and
> libflashplayer.so
> to the plugins directory of your web browser. For
> example, if you are
> using the firefox browser installed into
> /opt/firefox:
>
>
> (as root)
> mkdir -p /opt/firefox/plugins
>
> cp flashplayer.xpt libflashplayer.so
> /opt/firefox/plugins
>
>
> You can also install into your home directory. Most
> applications will
> create a directory in your home dir and you can
> modify this without root
> access. For example, the Mozilla browser creates the
> following directories:
>
> /home/kwan/.mozilla/default/d28skd1sa.slt/
>
> To install here I would do:
>
> mkdir -p
> /home/kwan/.mozilla/default/d28skd1sa.slt/plugins
>
> cp libflashplayer.so flashplayer.xpt
> ~/.mozilla/default/d28skd1sa.slt/plugins
>
> (Above command should be on one line).
>
>
>
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