On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 09:05:00PM -1000, Ryan Kawailani Ozawa wrote: > After lurking for a week (hi Vince!),
Welcome! > I realize this list is primarily for power users, but I'm > hoping you might tolerate a newbie question. The things I generally carp about on what not to do on this list are excessive quoting and using HTML-mail. > I'm thinking of turning it over to my daughter, age six, and > giving her an early start outside the M$ domain. Very nice! > The thing is, clearly I've forgotten much of the basic concepts > of Linux, and specifically, I just can't get the Macromedia > Flash plugin to work in either Firefox or Konqueror. The > installer plops it in /home/user/.mozilla, and neither browser > sees it. I tried manually moving the files from .mozilla to > /firefox/plugins, but that doesn't do the trick. Any ideas? I would think dropping the flash .so file under ~/.firefox/plugins would suffice. But.. http://macromedia.mplug.org/rep_uh.html http://macromedia.mplug.org/site_uh.html Try adding the urpmi source to your setup and installing the RPM. (The Rutgers mirror is conveniently listed first when you google for "mandrake macromedia flash".) > Many thanks in advance for your patience and insights! And if > this Mickey Mouse stuff is inappropriate for this list, let me > know... and point me at a local Linux for Dummies group instead > (if there is one!). No, you are on the right list. -Vince
