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netsurf browser does not support flash. try firefox.

it is firefox

upgrade tazpkg 3.2 and then install flash plugin again
recently, all packages are repacked in new format
if your tazpkg version is not 3.2, (even you click "get-install") slitaz cannot install flash

how do i upgrade it?

tazpkg get-install tazpkg --forced

did that, now when i try to install from repo it says file already exist...

i think you might want to remove flash package and re-install it again

ok, then how do i remove it now?

(in this comment, "#" is the root prompt, you don't actually type it,
just what follows)

#tazpkg remove get-flash-plugin

#tazpkg usage
will show you all of the commands for tazpkg

also remember that this flash "package" is only a way to _get_ flash, because flash is proprietary. so after you do:

#tazpkg get-install get-flash-plugin

then you have to actually run it to install flash:

#get-flash-plugin

and it should be ok for firefox.

my big complaint is that there seems to be no way to use this to install flash on my favorite browser, opera. any help from anyone on that? flash-9 was easy, but flash-10 seems to only work for firefox.

go to your opera folder located /home/tux/.opera and find the file pluginspath.ini open it up and add these:

[Paths]
/usr/lib/opera/plugins=1
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins=1
/usr/lib/firefox-3.5.7/plugins=1
/home/tux/.mozilla/plugins=1

if you still have 3.5.3 change it accordingly


Rupp

When slitaz installs flash it puts libflashplayer.so in
/usr/share/flash and makes a symbolic link in /usr/lib/firefox-*/plugins
The fix above works until you change firefox versions as operas path to flash will break when the version number on the firefox folder changes.
I tried adding a usr/lib/firefox-*=1 in the plugin path but it wouldn't work.

This command will give the default path to plugins in opera it's own symlink to libflashplayer.so

root@slitaz:ln -s /usr/share/flash/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/opera/plugins/

or you can add the path to libflashplayer.so on a per user basis
/usr/share/flash=1 to /home/each.user/.opera/pluginpath.ini

Correction:
I tried adding /usr/lib/firefox-*/plugins=1 to pluginpath.ini but opera couldn't find libflashplayer.so

As I said just change the version number and it will work. Thats why I said if you have to then change the version number.

you guys are gods. it worked without a hitch! thanks!!!!!!

no we are just mere mortals :)