English-General•idiots guide to flash

• • josh
  • February 7
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  i must be the biggest idiot. seems like everyone can get flash to work. ive tried get-flash-plugin ive tried tazpkg get-install flash-plugin ive tried the repo. whats the deal? it says i already have it installed but no flash plugin is detected...

• • taylorchu
  • February 7
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  netsurf browser does not support flash. try firefox.

• • josh
  • February 7
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  it is firefox

• • taylorchu
  • February 7
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  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

• • josh
  • February 7
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  how do i upgrade it?

• • seawolf
  • February 7
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  tazpkg get-install tazpkg --forced

• • josh
  • February 7
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  did that, now when i try to install from repo it says file already exist...

• • taylorchu
  • February 7
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  i think you might want to remove flash package and re-install it again

• • josh
  • February 7
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  ok, then how do i remove it now?

• • monz
  • February 8
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  (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.
  

• • Rupp
  • February 8
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  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

• • mojo
  • February 9
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  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

• • mojo
  • February 9
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  Correction:
  I tried adding /usr/lib/firefox-*/plugins=1 to pluginpath.ini but opera couldn't find libflashplayer.so

• • Rupp
  • February 9
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  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.

• • josh
  • February 9
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  you guys are gods. it worked without a hitch! thanks!!!!!!

• • Rupp
  • February 10
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  no we are just mere mortals :)