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Flash Plugin Help

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• Started 12 years ago by DaridZord
• Latest reply from Michele13
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   DaridZord
   

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   I'm very new to linux, so its not a suprise that I am having this problem. After using the Packet Manager to download firefox (which works fine) I tried downloading the flash plugin. It said it installed, but I still can't use flash in firefox. I even downloaded the libfirefox file. I also tried to download it from the adobe site, but they are compressed in a format I can't seem to decompress. I downloaded gzip and rpm, the formats that they downloaded in, but both programs don't seem to work. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   mojo
   

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   Look here:
   http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/adobe-flash-player-on-slitaz#post-1964

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   DaridZord
   

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   Installing it isn't the problem. The problem is it doesn't do anything when I install it.

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   mojo
   

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   Open Xterm
   Type this and hit enter key:
   ls -la /usr/lib/firefox/plugins
   Post the output that the terminal prints after you hit the enter key.

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   DaridZord
   

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   It says no such file or directory. Do I have to make it?

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   mojo
   

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   No,the get-flash-plugin script makes it.

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   DaridZord
   

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   For some reason then, the flash plugin doesn't seem to be installing correctly then.

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   mojo
   

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   Boot into slitaz livecd.
   Open xterm,login as root,password:root
   Flash plugin install requires internet connection.
   ping 8.8.8.8
   No ping reply: your not connected to the internet.
   Fix your internet connection before the next step.
   tazpkg recharge
tazpkg get-install get-flash-plugin
get-flash-plugin
   Open midori
   Go to http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/
   Verify's: You have version 11,1,102,63 installed
   Go to http://www.youtube.com watch videos

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   DaridZord
   

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   Thank you so much! It worked! Thanks for helping me!

   Posted 12 years ago #
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    aniguenni
    

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    @mojo
    thank's a lot mojo. didn't know that installing flash plugin is so easy. i tried several times different things without success.
    linux really can be so easy and slitaz is just marvellous. thank's again guys. you do a fantastic job. ;-)

    Posted 12 years ago #
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    Michele13
    

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    I Have the same problem of DaridZord, I executed all the commands but it did not work.
    if I run ls -la /usr/lib/firefox/plugins it says: No such file or directory. That's a shame that I can't use flash player in this beautiful distro :(

    Posted 12 years ago #
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    aniguenni
    

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    @ Michele13
    i put in the same command (don't know this and don't know what it should say), and mine said exactly the same. No such file or directory. but the plugin works well with firefox (11.0) and midori (0.4.4). even on tazweb i can watch flash video.
    so did you try to watch flash videos on your browsers?

    Posted 12 years ago #
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    Michele13
    

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    Yes, I tried but for youtube I need to upgrade the flash plugin to watch videos

    Posted 12 years ago #
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    mojo
    

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    Verify flash-plugin install Slitaz 4.0 :
    This command:
    ls -la /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
    will output:
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Mar 29 10:07 /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so -> /usr/share/flash/libflashplayer.so

    Posted 12 years ago #
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    Michele13
    

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    OK problem fixed. This problem affects Slitaz 3.0 because when you run as root the command
    get-flash-plugin it freezes for a sec and then it exit without saying anything. The problem can be fixed by changing the package repository from the 3.0 to the cooking one by typing tazpkg setup-mirror http://mirror.slitaz.org/packages/cooking/ and recharging the package list with tazpkg recharge

    Posted 12 years ago #

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