Other Help Topics :: Flashplayer - Anyone got it working with DSL?



Has anyone managed to get flashplayer working with Firefox on DSL? If so, I would be interested in the instructions to get this installed. When I go to a web site which requires it, I go through the prompts to install it, it says it is installed, but it doesn't become active in Firefox.

I'm using FIrefox version 1.0.6 that came with DSL. Thanks!
If you want to use the flash player 9, you will need to install gtk2 and a gtk2 version of firefox (the firefox in DSL base uses gtk1.2).  Otherwise you must use flash player 7
it's not easy to find flash 7 nowadays.

put    flashplayer.xpt   and   libflashplayer.so

into this directory:    home/dsl/.mozilla/plugins

and your done.


http://petepr.hopto.org/dsl/flash/flash.htm
Real noob question:

Where do I put Flash7 files when running DSL as a live CD?

(I would use EmelFM to transfer files, right? When I try to use EmelFM, it says "home/dsl/.mozilla/plugins" directory does not exist. Since I'm running this as a live CD, I haven't downloaded any plugins yet. Is that the problem?)

Now, since this is my first post, some shameless grovelling:

I've just been tinkering around with DSL the past couple of months, figuring it out through trial and error, looking here at the DSL boards, etc.--not really bothering to really immerse myself in the whole "linux way of doing things" but just coming at it from the perspective of a typical Windows user who's just leery of what M$ is doing and wants an alternative.

And I gotta say this is an outstanding distro! I LOVE DSL. I love the fact that it's friendly to older machines, runs on minimal RAM...I've run this on a 64Meg Pentium III and it runs great (until you open a bunch of Firefox tabs, that is...).

Still, an incredible amount of really usable software crammed into such a small distro...DSL really is amazing.  

bill@billsmithbooks.com
www.BillSmithBooks.com
oh, ..er. i can't remember if FireFox has that directory by default.
if not, create it. (the directory is in ram).

if FF is straining under 64MB, are you sure you want to run Flash?
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