Guest bolanski Posted December 12, 2002 Report Share Posted December 12, 2002 Is there any way to get a Flash 6 plugin running? I have only found Flash5 plugins for linux/mozilla at macromedia. /andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MottS Posted December 12, 2002 Report Share Posted December 12, 2002 You can find a Mandrake rpm here: ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distribut...ndrake/9.0/rpms The best way to install Flash along with its required dependencies is to add that source to urpmi. This is done by issuing the following command as root (the code is all on the same line !!!!). urpmi.addmedia TextarRPMS ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.0/rpms with hdlist.cz Then install Flash by typing (as root again) urpmi mozilla-flash Of course you need mozilla here ;-). If you use Konqueror then I have no idea unless you install Mozilla, install flash with the above command and then clic Kmenu->KdeControlCenter->WebBrowing->NetscapePlugins and then clic 'scan for new plugin'. Hope this help MOttS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dturley Posted December 12, 2002 Report Share Posted December 12, 2002 http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashpl...ial/beta/#linux But, I tried installing a a user and mozilla simply exits when I hit a flash 6 site. (wondering if I need to install as root and replace flash 5 in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ ) wil try later Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted December 12, 2002 Report Share Posted December 12, 2002 The current release of Flash 6 for Linux is VERY shaky. I would stick to Flash 5 and wait for the final release of 6 (I honestly know one person out of a ton who have gotten it to work). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dturley Posted December 12, 2002 Report Share Posted December 12, 2002 yea, I gave up. the only reason I needed Flash 6 was so my 6 year old could play at www.bobthebuilder.com, but he's set up on the iMac now. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest josetann Posted December 12, 2002 Report Share Posted December 12, 2002 Odd, I got the beta flash6 plugin from the macromedia site, put it in the plugins directory, and it works fine (even tried it at that bobthebuilder site, no problems). Works with Mozilla 1.1 and 1.2.1 (Tex's build). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dturley Posted December 12, 2002 Report Share Posted December 12, 2002 I've got mozillla 1.0.1, MD 8.2, no go. the install script says NOTE: Macromedia Flash Player requires two font packages to be installed, ttfonts and urw-fonts. not sure what MD packages I need, will have to look around I guess. This is a default 8.2 install (crossover plugin freezes the system too, wonder it it's font related, although codeweavers says it must be a bug in Xfree86 :-/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bolanski Posted December 13, 2002 Report Share Posted December 13, 2002 The tip seemed to work. I dont know what that uprmi actually is but it did the trick so Im all happy. Thanks again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MottS Posted December 13, 2002 Report Share Posted December 13, 2002 Here is a little HowTo for you to understand URPM: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/basics/brpm3.html Basically URPM let you install, remove, upgrade softwares with their dependencies from RPM sources (cds, ftp sites, http sites, local directory, etc...) MOttS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero0w Posted December 14, 2002 Report Share Posted December 14, 2002 Flash 6 plugin for mozilla.org/Netscape 7 on Linux is finally released! Official mirror http://macromedia.mplug.org/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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