Flash with Opera and Mozilla
From: Fred (Use-Author-Address-Header_at_[127.1)
Date: 05/31/04
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Date: 30 May 2004 22:13:02 -0000
I have SuSE 9.1 running on an x86_64 machine.
Seeing the announcement about the latest Flash Player,
I wanted to try it out. I downloaded version 7,0,25,0.
Next, I used yast2 to remove the installed version of
flash-player, version 6.0.81-2 for i586.
I moved the downloaded file to /tmp and un-tar'd it.
The installation instructions made no mention of x86_64,
so I decided to try installing it by hand.
Mozilla
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I could not get Mozilla to even see the flash-player.
Nothing shows up on the Preferences->Scripts&Plug-ins
page. But I tried various places to put the two files
from the Flash download. Nothing worked. I finally
gave up when one combination of placement and symbolic
links broke Mozilla so it wouldn't even start up.
Opera
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Success! The opera web-site
www.opera.com/linux/docs/plugins/install/#flash
shows the plug-in directory as /usr/lib/opera/plugins.
I tried symbolic links, as follows:
cd /usr/lib/opera/plugins
ln -s /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so libflashplayer.so
ln -s /usr/lib/browser-plugins/flashplayer.xpt flashplayer.xp
Then, I started opera and checked the Preferences->Plug-ins page and
the Preferences->File types page. It looked like everything that
should be filled in was there, per the opera web-site (above).
Finally, I tried a website - http://www/colortini.com - that I knew
had played OK before the SuSE 9.1 installation. It played OK, but
there was another error message to deal with. Opera complained about
libXm.so.2, but that can be handled by reading the forum entries at
the following link:
http://my.opera.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=44506&highlight=flash+plugin
Help request
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If anyone running on an x86_64 has mozilla running flashplayer
successfully, please post your configuration here, or point me
to the place where you found out how to make it work.
Thanks.
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