Hello

Forum: Apps
Topic: Hello
started by: rockrapdude

Posted by rockrapdude on Aug. 12 2005,20:30

Hello my problem is that>my flash installer asks where the mozilla firefox is but i dont know the directory.Any1 help?

Posted by mikshaw on Aug. 12 2005,20:57

You don't need to run the installer. Just extract libflashplayer.so into /opt/.firefox_plugins

Posted by adssse on Aug. 13 2005,04:32

Is libflashplayer.so a download? (Sorry for my ignorance, just curious)

Posted by v00d00 on Aug. 13 2005,07:07

No. Its one of the files in the archive.

Just do:

tar xvzf install_flash_player_7_linux.tar.gz

Then go inside the directory it creates. Then copy the libflashplayer.so to /opt/.firefox_plugins

or

~/.mozilla/plugins

Posted by adssse on Aug. 14 2005,03:56

Oh ok. Can you tell I have never done this before? Thanks for the info.

Posted by RoGuE_StreaK on Aug. 14 2005,05:12

Or just go to the Net menu, and "install Flash", then backup /opt/.firefox_plugins

It's good to make this a single file backup, so you can have flash by itself as a package for later restoration.
There's something about the licensing that doesn't allow us to post it in the mydsl repository - you have to download it yourself, but you're quite free to make a backup of it for later use.