Re: [SLUG] Flash and Linux Firefox

From: steve szmidt (steve@szmidt.org)
Date: Tue Nov 14 2006 - 12:57:13 EST


On Tuesday 14 November 2006 11:13, Paul M Foster wrote:
> Folks:
>
> I typically surf in Debian with Firefox, but until now I have not
> installed the Flash plugin. Flash aggravates me, so I don't normally
> care that Flash webpages don't fully display. However, for a variety of
> reasons, I'd now like to install the Flash plugins.
>
> Normally, when Firefox encounters a Flash page, a little bar appears at
> the top, with a little icon that tells you to click it to install the
> plugin. I've done this several times, and it goes to install it, but
> never actually does. Does anyone know how to actually install this
> plugin on a Debian/Linux system?
>
> Paul

The libflashplayer.so file goes into /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

Sometimes you end up putting plugins in other browsers dirs too.

-- 

Steve Szmidt

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