Hi Mongoosetoo, Okay...now... :))
Take your time and read closely (LOL) You've written that you typed the following: cd /locate libflashplayer.so I agree that command line stuff is weird and strange if you've never done it before (which puts you in the large majority of the population of computer users who have only started using computers in the last five to ten years) and so it's understandable if you make errors. The thing to remember is that you will work this out and you will understand more and eventually in a few years (!) you'll see someone posting the same questions and you'll know the answers yourself AND be able to tell them how to do it, which having lunch, reading a book and playing on your Linux-based hand-held gaming device while remote controlling your home server from your Linux-based mobile :)) There are some distinct steps here. 1. Open terminal 2. Type in everything that appears in the following line: cd / This will change your directory to the root directory. 3. Type in everything that appears in the following line: locate libflashplayer.so You can also cut and paste the text I've described from the e-mail This will show if you have flashplayer installed and where the plugin is located. Another thing you could do and I'm not sure why I've not thought of this before - Firefox 3 will install this for you. You can remove the flashplayer using Synaptic. Do the following: First, close Firefox. Then go through the Menu and find Synaptic (somwhere in 'Adminstration' I think). Open Synaptic and then do the following: Ctrl+F This will give you a 'Find' dialogue box. Enter: flash and then select: ok (I think that's the command) which will list all the flash installs. Right click on them and select: remove Then when this is finished, close Synaptic. Then open Firefox. Find a site that has flash (eg. type flash games in a search engine) and go to the site. Firefox will tell you a plugin is not installed. Select the option to install the plugin and follow the directions. Install the Adobe plugin. Then restart Firefox and all should be well. Let us know how you go. Regards, Patrick On 02/01/2009, mongoosetoo <[email protected]> wrote: All right, still nothing. Now I don't even have the 'play' button in the middle of the video box. I tried youtube and hulu, neither works, they both go blank. I tried the cd / thing again and this is a paste of what I got... j...@gateway:/$ cd /locate libflashplayer.so bash: cd: /locate: No such file or directory Any other ideas? On Jan 1, 12:28 pm, mahjongg <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, you did not install the flash player (correctly) > > Until a very short while ago the best way to install the Adobe Flash > Player was though the software installer of gOS, Synaptic, which can > be easily found through the configuration menu's. > However Adobe is commercial software, and they did not like the fact > that their software was not installed through their website, so they > made that impossible. Now the only way to install Flash is through the > installer on their website, the good news is that it works, if you do > it the right way, which is explained in the essential-tips-for- > beginning-gos-3-users FAQ on the start page here. > > http://groups.google.com/group/goslinux/web/essential-tips-for-beginn... > > On 1 jan, 16:40, mongoosetoo <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Elliott, > > > I tried the cd thing and it said 'no such file or directory' > > > I assume that's a bad thing? > > > What do I do from here? > > > Thanks, Jim > > > On Jan 1, 4:47 am, elliott-brennan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi Mongoosetoo, > > > > Did you install Adobe Flash player using Synaptic, > > > or did you do it manually? > > > > Also, can you open a terminal and type the following: > > > > cd / > > > > then: > > > > locate libflashplayer.so > > > > This will tell us where your flashplayer plugin is > > > located if it's in the correct place. > > > > Regards, > > > > Patrick > > > > mongoosetoo wrote: > > > > I have three machines on a home network. One has gOS SPace 2.9 and > > > > the other two are using gOS Gadgets 3.0. > > > > > None of the machines can view videos on hulu or youtube. I get the > > > > triangle play button in the middle of the screen, but when I click it > > > > they go blank or black, depending upon which site I am on. I have > > > > installed gnash, couldn't figure it out so I uninstalled and tried > > > > Adobe FLash Player. Still nothing on any of the computers. > > > > > Thanks, Jim > > > > -- > > > Registered GNU/Linux User 368634 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gOS Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/goslinux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
