Leland F. Jackson, CPA wrote: > You need to locate where your latest Flashplayer files are. Delete any > older Flashplayer files. Then you need to copy, or create a new > symbolic link to the the new Flashplayer files. Your new Flashplayer > files, or symbolic links, should be placed in the plugins directory > under the main firefox directory. For example, if the Flashplayer files > were installed in "/usr/lib/flash-plugin/", and your plugins directory > was "/usr/lib/firefox-3.0, then you could create a symbolic link as follows: > > Whoops, it looks like the line creating the symbolic link wrapped when sent, but it should be only one line, or you could enter the line as follows in the command window, for example. The backslash is for formatting and indicates a continuation of a single line.
ln -sf /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so \ /usr/lib/firefox-3.0/plugins/libflashplayer.so Regards, LelandJ > ln -sf /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so > /usr/lib/firefox-3.0/plugins/libflashplayer.so > > Regards, > > LelandJ > > > Joe Yoder wrote: > >> I am getting my feet wet in Ubuntu and seem to have a situation where >> Firefox and Flashplayer are somhow out of sync. I should probably do a >> complete reinstall of the OS as one does when running Windows but what would >> I learn from that? >> >> I had the system uninstall Firefox and then reinstall it. I installed the >> Flashplayer 10 beta without seeing any reported errors but when I do the >> about:plugins in Firefox there is no mention of FlashPlayer. I'm wishing >> for a checklist of the full paths of the files that need to be in place for >> flashplayer to work. Perhaps there are other conditions that can keep it >> from working. I found some references to a .dat file that needs to be >> removed but have never located that file on my installation. >> >> Any advice welcome. >> >> TIA- Joe >> >> >> --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- >> multipart/alternative >> text/plain (text body -- kept) >> text/html >> --- >> >> [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
