On Saturday 07 October 2006 11:59, Ken Moffat wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 10:17:15AM -0600, Jim McConville wrote:
> > Subject: Flash Player and BLFS
> >
> > Is there any information avaialble on the use of Flash Player
> > with the supported BLFS software such as KDE and GNOME?
> >
> > Information relative to the following would be appreciated.
> > 1. Policy relative to using Flash Player on LFS derived systems.
> > 2. Success/failures in installing,
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Jim McConville
>
> 'Policy' is something the BLFS editors have kept out of the book.
> Like all binaries, you don't know what it is going to do, so it
> might be a risk, but it's your distro. At least it isn't going to
> poke about in the kernel internals like proprietary graphics
> drivers.
>
> Works on x86 only (I use it with firefox). I _loathe_ flash sites,
> but it's occasionally useful to me so I usually have it installed on
> at least one of my systems.
>
> ISTR that one or other of the free (open) alternatives is starting
> to make progress, but I can't remember the name of the project or
> how much it can do. Maybe it was swfdec.
> Ken
> --
> das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce
I would like to appologize for the inappropriate use of the word "policy" in
my iniital inquiry for assistance. I also share the antipathy incurred when
logging on to sites that employ flash_player to the extent of being obnoxious.
That said I would like to share my experience at installing the software.
1. Down-loaded install_flash_player_7_linux.tar.gz
2. Untarred install_flash_player_7_linux.tar.gz in the "SOUCRE" directory and
cd`d into the resulting directory.
3. Copied "libflashplayer.so" and "flashplayer.xpt" to the browser plugins
directory which in my case is "/opt/kde-3.5.2/lib/kde3/plugins".
4. In Konqueror used the tool "Configure Konqueror" and selected "Plugins"
5. Made sure the plugins directory was listed in the window and pressed "Scan
for new plugins" button.
6. Restarted Konqueror.
So far "flash_player" entity has performed successfully.
Thanks for your patience,
Jim McConville
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