FlashplayerForum: Multimedia Topic: Flashplayer started by: raysr Posted by raysr on Jan. 27 2006,00:27
Where is the flashpalyer dsl ? Installed 2.1 can't find flash. Help!
Posted by mikshaw on Jan. 27 2006,01:40
There is no flashplayer dsl. Licensing restrictions apparently forbid redistribution. Download the player from macromedia.com and extract the *.so file into /opt/.firefox_plugins
Posted by raysr on Jan. 27 2006,03:24
Thanks! I extracted it in home and moved it into /opt(libflashplayer.so) but I don't know how to get into firefox plugins. Permisssion denied. I see there's no "paste" function.
Posted by mikshaw on Jan. 27 2006,03:51
"mv /opt/libflashplayer.so /opt/.firefox_plugins/" (note the dot and the trailing slash)If this doesn't work, "sudo mv /opt/libflashplayer.so /opt/.firefox_plugins/" Posted by raysr on Jan. 27 2006,05:17
Can't get it to work. I can install dsl ok but I've never messed around with the file system. Mandriva and Xandros is what I use mainly so this quite unusual. Anyway I have libflashplayer.so unpacked on the left side and /opt/firefox/plugins showing on the right side. Whenever I try to move or copy I get "permission denied" on the bottom. I guess it's moot anyway. When I try mplayer my cpu usage is so great that it freezes. That's what I wanted flash for. I reinstalled dsl and will forgo flash. Thanks for the help.
Posted by mikshaw on Jan. 27 2006,05:42
It's /opt/.firefox_plugins (a hidden directory), not /opt/firefox/plugins. What you typed looks like what you'd get in a firefox uci extension, which would explain the permission error (uci is read-only, like a cdrom)
Posted by humpty on Mar. 05 2006,08:36
for DSL 2.2 (firefox 1.0.6) flash seems only to work if the plugin is copied to /home/dsl/.mozilla/plugins I also recommend the flash blocker < http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ > to stop unfriendly flash ads. |