Flashplayer - Anyone got it working with DSL?Forum: Other Help Topics Topic: Flashplayer - Anyone got it working with DSL? started by: rothmail Posted by rothmail on Mar. 20 2007,02:00
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! Posted by mikshaw on Mar. 20 2007,02:17
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
Posted by humpty on Mar. 30 2007,21:47
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 > Posted by BillSmithBooksDotCom on Mar. 31 2007,22:37
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 Posted by humpty on April 01 2007,22:28
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? Posted by jpeters on April 02 2007,04:43
Yes, it's created by default. I have flashplayer.xpt in mine. Just install the plugin and backup $HOME to hardrive. (rt click on desktop, system/backup-restore) Posted by outer!s on April 05 2007,08:49
how about having flash in opera (frugall; plz help me; maybe i missed some thread)edit* got it working by ading to /home/dsl/.opera/pluginpath.ini line: /home/dsl/.mozilla/plugins=1 (earlier was, mozila have auto installed flash plugin) Posted by BillSmithBooksDotCom on April 05 2007,23:59
It's up to 256MB now...Firefox is much happier. Got Flash7 working. Thanks, Bill www.BillSmithBooks.com Posted by setecio on April 13 2007,21:57
Bookmarked.
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