On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 11:47:53AM +0000, Ian Tindale wrote:
> Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> > Excuse me? The flash installer consists of copying two files
> > into the plugin directory. Yes, it does install and yes it does run
> > and yes it does get stuck and follow you around until you shut the whole
> > damn thing down. I actually had to issue a "killall mozilla-bin" to
> > get it to shut up.
> It does install? That's good news - so, I go to the macromedia site and
> download which two files, then to copy into the plugins directory? All
> this time I've been clicking on the flash player and it doesn't do it
> for me. The macromedia site doesn't seem to be able to handle what to do
> to install - and I can't see anywhere any reference to downloading a
> certain two files to copy into the plugins directory.
> Excellent news - can't wait to find out which two particular files.
It's only version 4...
Download flash_linux.tar.gz and unpack it.
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/flash/english/linux/4.0r12/flash_linux.tar.gz
It untars into the directory "Linux". In there are 3 files:
[root@alcove Linux]# ls -l
total 762
-rw-r--r-- 1 mhw mhw 6905 Aug 30 1999 README.Linux
-rw-r--r-- 1 mhw mhw 2363 Aug 9 1999 ShockwaveFlash.class
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mhw mhw 765852 Aug 27 1999 libflashplayer.so
Top of the "README.Linux" file:
=============================
Macromedia
Flash Player 4
Netscape Plug-in for Linux
25 August 1999
Macromedia is proud to release the Flash Player 4 Netscape plug-in for
the Linux operating system.
=============================
Yes, it's a year and a half old.
Installation instructions from that same file:
=============================
Installing the Flash Player System-Wide:
You will need root access to the computer to install the Flash Player
system-wide.
1. Copy the Flash Player (libflashplayer.so) into the Netscape
plug-in directory.
cp $HOME/flash_linux/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/netscape/plugins
2. Copy the Flash Player Java class file (ShockwaveFlash.class)
into the Netscape plug-in directory.
cp $HOME/flash_linux/ShockwaveFlash.class /usr/lib/netscape/plugins
3. Start Netscape.
netscape &
4. Verify the installation by typing about:plugins in the location bar.
You should see the Flash Player listed as "Shockwave Flash 4.0r12"
5. To test the Flash Player go to:
http://www.flash.com/
(NOTE: If the Web site www.flash.com does not automatically detect that
you have the Flash Player installed, click on the link
"If you know you have Flash, click here")
=============================
Yes it installs, but it's got problems...
> Cheers. Ian Tindale
Mike
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