bill wrote:
ok so i installed and started using opensolaris off of the livecd i made with no troubles. and i went online...pretty impressed with the speed and all...went to youtube...and whoops. adobe flash isn't natively installed. so i went to filehippo.com, where i download a lot of stuff, and click on download adobe flash (non-ie), and the little firefox prompt shows up asking me where i want to save it to, bla bla bla (i have the settings on "automatically save to desktop" for downloads) and then i click ok....only to find that not only does the downloads window showup, but also an error message stating
"/tmp/install_flash_player_10-4.exe could not be opened, because the associated
helper application does not exist. Change the association in your preferences."
so i e went to the adobe site to see if i coudl download it off their, and the same error came up! I went to searching on google, and it seemed that the problem was this:
"The "associated helper application does not exist" message can mean the application the Mozilla program thinks should open a specific type of file is no longer installed [1]. It can also mean that the application has either been updated or reinstalled and ion where to find the program you want to use for the file type (see below for a solution if the dialog does not help). To do this, first find the File Actions dialog. "
so i go to edit->preferences->applications and there is no Adobe Content on the left side
for me to alter the action for. all i see is "Bzip archive, Mailto, Podcast, Video
Podcast, webcal, and Web Feed"
help anyone? anyone know whats going on? am i doing something wrong? i know ppl
have definitely installed plug ins like adobe flash 10 successfully before on
opensolaris...whats going on here?
Hi Bill,
This should be related to bug:
http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=4845. And it's fixed in
OpenSolaris b105 already.
Could you please double check to make sure that the Firefox download
preference is set to "automatically save to desktop" instead of
"automatically open with some application"? I ask is because that this
error shouldn't happen if the file is saved, and you can always
double-click to open the bz2 files in Nautilus after downloading.
Hope this help,
-Alfred
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