How do I install stuff??

Forum: Apps
Topic: How do I install stuff??
started by: Jesper_505

Posted by Jesper_505 on Jan. 26 2006,14:36

I hope someone can help me. I accidently asked this question in another section. I have installed DSL.DK (a danish version) to my harddrive beacuse mandrake was far to slow. I tought it had all I needed and it allmost does except Flash support in the browser. So I need to install this somehow. I tried following a debian tutorial on the apt package thingy (I havent used a package system before) but I ran into problems when I tried the following command as root

apt-setup

It didn't recognize this command. So now I dont know what to do. I thought I could just download the newest version of firefox and I have downloaded the file ok but I dont know what to with it?? Please help!

Posted by mikshaw on Jan. 26 2006,16:48

You can download new versions of firefox all you want, the plugin is not included.

Download the plugin from macromedia.com and extract the *.so file into /opt/.firefox_plugins.

Posted by Jesper_505 on Jan. 26 2006,17:41

Thx but how do I extract that file?? I can acces it by using emelfm, but emelfm dosent show the /opt/.firefox_plugins. directory.

I can acces that by using commands. But I dont know how to acces the *.so file when I use commands.

Posted by Jesper_505 on Jan. 26 2006,19:10

JUBIII I finally got it working. I figured out how to unpack the directory. Then I followed the readme file but I got a menu where I had to write the path to firefox and I couldn't find it so i just copied libflashplayer.so to the /opt/.firefox_plugins and it works

Thx a lot.