Firstly, I am grateful for the replies. Regrettably, so far I have made no progress.
Some comments below... ----- Original Message ----- > From: lux-integ <lux-in...@btconnect.com> > > I have only took a cursory look at this thread so please excuse if I have > missed anything. > > I read somewhere that adobe will discontinue support for linux (i.e. > libflashplayer.so for linux ) early in 2014. If that is so ( and I would be > grateful of someonw on list could confirm/explain ) is it worth bothering > with? > I am aware of this and would welcome a viable FOSS alternative. For the moment flash remains a necessity. It has been a couple of years since I looked at any FOSS flash alternatives - but my recollection is that they fell far short of the mark. ----- Original Message ----- > From: Aleksandar Kuktin <akuk...@gmail.com> > > Well, you don't use WebKit with flash. You use flash with a browser. > Assuming you downloaded what I think you downloaded from Adobe's site, > you downloaded a binary browser plugin in a standard format (so that it > can be used by all (for a certain value of "all") browsers). > > The way you go about using libflashplayer.so is that you first build a > browser of your liking (again, assuming that browser supports the > above mentioned "standard plugin format"). Then you install the > browser > and, depending on how exactly you built it, where you installed it, and > what changes (if any) you made to the code before building, the browser > will look for its plugins in a list of locations. You put > libflashplayer.so in one of those locations so the browser can find it > and you tell the browser to load and use the Flash plugin. > > The exact details of the last three steps depend on the browser. > I apologise if my initial post lacked detail. Perhaps I should be more precise: I intend eventually to use the 'uzbl' browser, which supposedly supports flash. For testing purposes I have built uzbl (actually three sub-packages of which two are relevant) and I am also using the pre-supplied tool 'GtkLauncher' which I found in the 'Programs' directory after the webkit build. My understanding is that a suitable browser should be able to use externally supplied 'plugins' in order to render specialist material such as swf, java etc. To this end I have tried GtkLauncher, uzbl-browser and uzbl-core all rendering the page 'http://www.adobe.com/flash' and all three tell me that 'this content requires flash' and provide a helpful download link encouraging me to obtain the library which I already have in several places on the system... --- I do note that in the configure log, webkit has the 'external plugin process' disabled - however this appears to be a feature of 'webkit-2' (which I have inferred uses GTK3?). So I am assuming that webkit-1 does not use the external process and handles plugins differently? (I did try rebuilding with --enable-plugin-process but predictably it complained about a lack of GTK 3). So, does anybody have any other good ideas? Have I misunderstood some vital concept? Again, many thanks, R. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
