Tips&Tricks Installing java and shockwave flash plugins

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Post Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2002 5:10 pm Post subject: Installing java and shockwave flash plugins for Mozilla

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I came across a method for doing this that seems simpler (by a little bit) than all the typing called for in the instructions I have seen so far.

 

For the Shockwave flashplayer, I ran up against this just last night in rc3. I went to Shockwave, downloaded the linux tarball, called konqueror from a root prompt, made a split window, clicked on the tarball, and dragged the two files from one window into /usr/lib/mozilla-1.1/plugins. I reloaded the page that used flash and it was working.

 

For java, I got the rpm.bin package from Sun.

 

I installed per the intructions and decided to try what I did for Flash: Call konqueror from a root prompt, split the window, go to /usr/java/j2re1.4.1/plugin/i386/ns610 in one window and /usr/lib/mozilla-1.1/plugins in the other, drag the plugin from the java install into the plugins directory, and choose 'Link here'.

 

I only had to reload the open Mozilla window and the plugin showed up in About:Plugins. Cool. The instructions say to restart the browser but this seems to work now without doing so---similarly for the flash plugin. I tried the java-based speed test at www.dslreports.com that always has given me trouble and it worked, which is good enough for me, for now. YMMV.

 

 

 

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