Charles A. Punch wrote: > Dan Ray wrote: > >>Morning, folks! >> >>So my upgrade to KDE 2.2 went reasonably well--a few minutes hunting down >>dependencies, and a deep breath as I did a --force on a couple of things, >>and then by god I'd booted into KDE 2.2. I'm getting to be pretty good >>at this stuff! ;-D >> >>The only thing that seems to have broken in the process is the Flash >>Netscape plugin for Konqueror, which used to work great. Now, though, Konq >>freezes hard before rendering any page that contains flash and 'kill -9' >>is the only way out. >> >>Any thoughts? Should I just refresh the nsplugins package? Is there an >>update to nsplugins for kde 2.2 that I maybe didn't get? >> > > I hopr this doesn't twist this thread *too* far off topic. Just a note > about NS plugins, which may or may not be relevant. I am not much of a > command line person. I do most things from the GUI, but am trying to > learn more command line. It just seems that what people say work for > them, does not always work on my system, or either (gasp!) I am perhaps > not doing something right. I have been trying to get the Macromedia > Flash plugins to work for about a month. Countless tries of downloading > and following the instructions in the tarball (which are command line > instructions). kept getting the message "no such file or directory". I > copied the path from GMC to make sure I had it entered correctly. > Finally, I just did a drag and drop from GMC and Eureka! it works. Must > have been something about the path, but I can't figure out exactly what. > Could it possibly be a dependancy or something more basic than just a > syntax error? I know the info I've given is not much to go on, but I was > just looking for perhaps a general direction or something basic, I may > have overlooked. Any help will be appreciated. Don't bend over too far > backwards helping me on this one, because after all, it is working now. > It's just that I would like to know why, for future reference and for > general education that may help my weak command line skills. I guess > some people are never satisfied. Just so this isn't taken out of > context, that last remark was about myself. > > ShalomOut > Chal > Elder PCUSA > Registered Linux user # 217118 > > Patience is a minor form of despair, disguised as virtue. > -- Ambrose Bierce, on qualifiers > > Wow, this seems to be the only thing in Linux I actually know anything about. So far I've posted this same thing twice and gotten rave reviews both times, so I'll modify it to refer to flash instead of java (the original topic, same procedure) and just copy-paste... The command line solution can be found on page 98 of Running Linux (Welsh,Dalheimer and Kaufman - O'Reilly & Associates) and on page 219 of Linux in a Nutshell (Siever, Spainhour, Figgins and Hekman - O'Reilly). If you don't already have both books I STRONGLY recommend picking them up. Either buy/order them from a locally owned bookstore or, if you don't have the hefty $75 combined price tag, take the five-finger discount at the nearest Borders (the place is less secure than Windows ME) and buy a few magazines back at your hometown shop to support local business. Just please don't actually buy it from one of those lame chains, either order it from your local business (it's probably not in stock) or bring a bookbag to one of the gross box stores. Linux is just one small part of taking power away from corporate assholes that treat their employees and customers like dirt, so try to keep the faith in every aspect of your life possible. Anyway, the command you're looking for is "ln". It works as follows: (the #'s are just to signify the root command prompt) # ln [options] sourcename(s) [destination directory] where "sourcename(s)" is the fully qualified name of the file(s) you want to create links to (in your case libjavaplugin_oji.so) and "destination directory" is the directory you want the links to appear in (in my case it as /usr/local/mozilla0.9.3/mozilla/plugins, yours will be pretty similar - justmake sure it ends up in /plugins) The option you'll be using will be -s (for symbolic). So, assuming your netscape (dude, get mozilla...) directory were located like mine is, the command would be: # ln -s [your fully qualified libflashplayer.so file] /usr/local/netscape/plugins # ln -s [your fully qualified ShockwaveFlash.class file] /usr/local/netscape/plugins As an example, my "fully qualified ShockwaveFlash.class file" is /usr/local/flash_linux/ShockwaveFlash.class, so my commands would look like: # ln -s /usr/local/flash_linux/libflashplayer.so /usr/local/netscape/plugins # ln -s /usr/local/flash_linux/ShockwaveFlash.class /usr/local/netscape/plugins Your command would only differ depending on where your netscape and flash folders are located. Anyway, after you install it you should use the simple command "ls -l [destionation directory]" to see that your symbolic link arrived appropriately. The line for the flash plugin should start with the letter "l" to show it is a link. If all seems fine and dandy then try going to someplace that uses flash (like www.75ark.com/Artists/Deltron_3030/default.htm) and see if you get the error message. If you do, try logging out and logging back in. If it still doesn't work then I told you something stupid and write me back so I can correct it. Feel free to drop me a line about any other stuff you need. I have a long way to go myself but I learn so much better when I'm working with other people. In Resistance, Isaac "[t]he intensification of social conflict within the advanced capitalist countries. . . has to be directed as far as possible into innocuous channels --innocuous, that is to say, from the standpoint of capitalist class rule. The stirring up of antagonisms along racial lines is a convenient method of directing attention away from class struggle," - Paul Sweezy (www.anarchistfaq.org, www.infoshop.org/faq) "It's not about seperation, it's about the population..." - Del tha Funky Homosapien, Deltron 3030 (http://www.hieroglyphics.com/features/deltron_3030/)
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