Re: [SLUG] installing flash in fedora

From: Kwan Lowe (kwan@digitalhermit.com)
Date: Sun Jan 09 2005 - 15:58:54 EST


gregory ogden wrote:
> Hello all,
> I am a complete novice when it comes to linux
> and computing in general. I have been trying to
> install flash player, following the instructions given
> by macromedia, but to no avail. I am running the
> latest fedora core and everything else seems to be
> working fine. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

About all you have to do is copy flashplayer.xpt and libflashplayer.so
to the plugins directory of your web browser. For example, if you are
using the firefox browser installed into /opt/firefox:

(as root)
mkdir -p /opt/firefox/plugins

cp flashplayer.xpt libflashplayer.so /opt/firefox/plugins

You can also install into your home directory. Most applications will
create a directory in your home dir and you can modify this without root
access. For example, the Mozilla browser creates the following directories:

/home/kwan/.mozilla/default/d28skd1sa.slt/

To install here I would do:

mkdir -p /home/kwan/.mozilla/default/d28skd1sa.slt/plugins

cp libflashplayer.so flashplayer.xpt
~/.mozilla/default/d28skd1sa.slt/plugins

(Above command should be on one line).

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