adobe flash player/firefox/other
(22 posts) (9 voices)- Started 13 years ago by idihtd
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Hello, i am using the slitaz version that's 30.0 MB. I installed this into a usb flash drive and am using it from there. The main thing i need help with is how do i install adobe flash player so i can watch videos like on youtube. Second, can i install firefox in this distrobution? Third, everytime i boot i have to press enter, choose the language, and i think keyboard settings, is it possible to somehow save this information on the flash drive so i do not have to keep repeating this everytime i turn on the computer. And lastly how do i install something as root. I realize this is quite a bit, but i would really appreciate any responses, i'm more concerned about the 1st and 3rd thing i wrote on here. Well i hope you can help me, and thank you.Posted 13 years ago #
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compostela
offlineMemberJason, I'm new to Slitaz too. It's good practice in Forums to search for your problem in previous posts. This way there is no need to take any other member time to answer your question.
In the Slitaz Forum page there is search box where you can write key words to search for an answer to your question. Also read the documentation first.There is a command called precisely "get-flash-plugin". While being connected to the Internet, from an xterm write this command to download it. Much better, read the Documentation: there is a section title "How to install Adobe flash player". If you run into any problem type "flash player" in the search box, something related to the subject should come out. Then, if you failed after a good decent try. Write your problem to the forum.
I don't know if this is the right procedure in Slitaz. But common sense and past experiences tell me so.
Welcome to the Forum. Slitaz It's the best and faster small Linux distro out there.Posted 13 years ago # -
Hey thanks i appreciate the response. I found the pages to instal l firefox and the flash plugin too but in the terminal, it tells me wget: bad address 'mirror.slitaz.org' then it says: Last packages.list is ready to use. Then Unable to find: firefox in the mirrored packages list. Unable to find: get-firefox in the mirrored packages list. It said the same thing for the flash plugin, so idk what to do. If anyone knows the problem, i would really appreciate it if you could help me, thanks.Posted 13 years ago #
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mojo
offlineKey Masterwget: bad address 'mirror.slitaz.org' :
Do you have network connectivity to mirror.slitaz.org ?
ping -c 5 mirror.slitaz.org
If you get no response ping the i.p. address
ping -c 5 94.23.60.116Installing the software
Become root:
tux@slitaz:~$ su
Password: root<=this is hidden
root@slitaz:~#
root@slitaz:~#tazpkg recharge
root@slitaz:~#tazpkg get-install firefox
root@slitaz:~#tazpkg get-install get-flash-plugin
root@slitaz:~#get-flash-pluginTo save software installation and configuration across reboots:
Grub menu.lst bootcode must have home=sdXX
sdXX is the drive and partition slitaz is installed on, find it with:
#fdisk -l
Run this command before you shutdown everytime you install software to rewrite root file system:
#tazusb writefs gz
Remove your old rootfs.gz backups or you will run out of space.
#tazusb cleanPosted 13 years ago # -
Hey thanks for all the info, i mangaged to get the packages using the second ping option, but when i try to recharge the lists, it still tells me wget: bad address 'mirror.slitaz.org. I can browse the internet so idk why it doesnt get them. This bad address is the main problem.
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mojo
offlineKey MasterSounds like your i.s.p. DNS server is the problem.
This is how to config slitaz to use google free dns instead which should fix this problem.Become root
#leafpad /usr/share/udhcpc/default.script
Add what's in BOLD
#!/bin/sh# udhcpc script edited by Tim Riker <Tim@Rikers.org>
DNS="8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4"
[ -z "$1" ] && echo "Error: should be called from udhcpc" && exit 1File/Save/File/Quit leafpad
Restart network:
#/etc/init.d/network.sh restartYou will have to tazusb writefs gz before you shutdown to save these changes.
Alternative DNS Config:
If you connect your computers to isp modem thru a router you can sometimes configure custom DNS addresses in router.
Now you don't have to configure the computer's,when the router assigns each computers i.p. address it hands out the custom DNS addresses
There are alternative DNS servers to google's, one is called opendns.Posted 13 years ago # -
Anonymous
offlineUnregisteredI am new to Slitaz and was unable to log in using either lynx (no javascript) or Opera 9.64 but Seamonkey 1.1.19 works. In other linuxes I have used Opera, Seamonkey and Firefox by downloading the regular linux versions (.tgz packages) and unpacking some place on the hard drive (don't know where it is mounted here - in puppy linux /mnt/home/) then, for Firefox for instance, cd ./firefox*, ./firefox will run the browser without needing to install it. You may be missing certain libraries (libdbus in puppy linux). I installed flash by downloading the regular linux package and extracting libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins - works for Seamonkey, Firefox, and even Opera (if things are set up right - otherwise put a copy in the Opera plugins directory too). I use puppy rather than slitaz because I hate mice and Slitaz wm seems not to have any keyboard navigation - did I miss it? How would I switch to jwm or icewm - is there a package? Also I notice that many language names are not spelled properly during liveCD setup (they look much better at the website). Either put them all into English (Hungary not Hungria) or all spelled in their own languages.Posted 13 years ago # -
Anonymous
offlineUnregisteredMidori from Slitaz 3.0 lets me log in. Copying libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and adding to /etc/profile the line MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH="/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins" did not work so I followed instructions above and libflashplayer.so was then found in /usr/share/flash and worked.
I could run both Seamonkey 2.0.14 and Firefox 4 from their own directories (they are on another partition which I first mounted, which I use them with another lniux) along with flash (probably because of my edit of profile).When I removed libflashplayer.so from plugins directory I think that broke flash in midori.
Opera will not load using its wrapper script. I added a real ldd and it found no missing libs.
(Why does Slitaz have the fake one?).I don't know whether Firefox and Seamonkey would have worked without first installing flash. During the installation, a firefox libraries package got downloaded which was evidently required for flash and maybe also for Firefox and Seamonkey.
Midori repeatedly will suddenly start using 100% of CPU time (in the midding of posting to this forum and running no other programs at the same time, or while watching Youtube) and the screen goes white. Seamonkey froze once (mouse cursor moved, nothing else did). I killed both from a terminal.
Seamonkey 2.0.14 is using 29% of my 512MB memory and no CPU time while posting here. 73MB total memory usage after subtracting cached and buffer (is that the right way?).
Firefox 4 uses 43% of memory (with both running at once).
Midori built-in adblock works nicely.
The jwm package works in Slitaz 3.0 but Alt-F1 does not bring up the menu - how do I make it do so?
In Slitaz 2.0 jwm complained of no .jwmrc. DWM package would also install.A search only searches on topic, not words in the body of the post. Maybe google will do better.
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Anonymous
offlineUnregisteredSeamonkey 2.0.14 and Midori (Slitaz 3.0) are both using 29% of 512MB RAM while logged into this forum.
Seamonkey has been much more stable for me. Why is Midori used instead?
Firefox 4 uses much more memory than the other two.Posted 13 years ago # -
mojo
offlineKey MasterKeep It Small Size is prime directive for everything in SliTaz.
More important than easy setup, use, features or stability.
The goal is to keep the core iso around 30MB
Tazlito or web based pizza will make a custom slitaz iso with your software selections.Posted 13 years ago # -
@mojo, I tried what you said and it still did not work, but thanks anyways... Could anyone please make me a custom slitaz, as it is, but with the flash plugin and firefox, and US keyboard settings. I would really appreciate it since i really want to use this but i've had no luck.Posted 13 years ago #
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Hello, i tried again to add the dns and restart the network but it does not seem to work. I can see my ip address and my dns address when i restart the network. I noticed that it said this:
route: SIOCDELRT: No such process. I don't know if that should do something.
I tried replacing the google dns and ip address with mine on the leafpad script, but the same thing happened. And when i tried to recharge the packages list i again get the wget: bad address ‘mirror.slitaz.org’ Does anyone know anyway to fix this?
Oh and i'm glad this thread helped someone...now if i could just help me lol
Oh and one more thing. Since i can browse the internet, is it possible for me to just directly download the files and install it somehow. I think this would be easier since i can't recharge the list. Thanks.I also found this(i think it would help me since it seems i use wget, but i dont get what to do):
"i'm in 3.0 and i have the real wget installed. executing get-flash-plugin does not work because the script uses
wget -s
and the real wget does not know what
-s
means.
to get the the script to work just replace in /usr/bin/get-flash-plugin every occurence of wget with
busybox wgetshould i put this in the guide or this fix could go in official get-flash-plugin package?"
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Trixar_za
offlineKey MasterI once suggested replacing it with --spider because both are supported by busybox and wget. It would be way more efficient that renaming all to busybox wget (somebody might decide in the future to remove busybox and use the gnu tools with their system instead).
To make it install you have to:
1. su to root
1a. Install get-flash-plugin
2. Run leafpad /usr/bin/get-flash-plugin
3. Edit line 22 to read:
if wget --spider ${URL}install_flash_player_${i}_linux.tar.gz 2> /dev/null; then
4. save and exit
5. run get-flash-pluginNow it should install flash if you have gnu wget or busybox wget.
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Well the problem is i cant get the get-flash-plugin, so i downloaded the rpm file from the adobe website then converted it to a tazpkg and used the tazpkg install nameoffile.tazpkg to install it. It says it installed, but the plugin doesnt seem to be recognized by midori or firefox. I tried reinstalling firefox forced and then the flash forced after that and neither worked. I also tried to run that leafpad command that you told me(trixar) and it didnt work, i tried it replacing the name with the name of the flash file i downloaded and didnt work either. All i got was an empty file. So any more ideas?
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