Re: [SLUG] Flashplayer

2010-10-19 Thread Heracles
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19/10/10 17:20, Malcolm Johnston wrote: Hi I've copied the new libflashplayer.so to its plugin directory, but something is not working. I get a message that I need to download a new flashplayer from Adobe, but that's what I've done.

Re: [SLUG] Flashplayer 10

2010-10-18 Thread brett
So, once again, do I just copy the new ``libflashplayer.so'' to the plugin site in mozilla, change the permissions to root, and 0755, or am I missing out something? Will I wreck my browser's flashplay ability or something equally unthinkable? Hi, Yes just replace the libflashplayer.so with

[SLUG] Flashplayer

2010-10-18 Thread Malcolm Johnston
Hi I've copied the new libflashplayer.so to its plugin directory, but something is not working. I get a message that I need to download a new flashplayer from Adobe, but that's what I've done. Restoring the older *.so gets me back to par, so no damage has been done; it seems, however, that I

Re: [SLUG] Flashplayer

2010-10-18 Thread Troy Rollo
On Tuesday 19 October 2010 17:20:28 Malcolm Johnston wrote: I've copied the new libflashplayer.so to its plugin directory, but something is not working. I get a message that I need to download a new flashplayer from Adobe, but that's what I've done. What is the message (the words, not the

[SLUG] Flashplayer 10

2010-10-17 Thread Malcolm Johnston
Dear Sluggers, I have a simple problem, which I would expect has a simple solution, but I'm being cautious and checking first. At the moment, my PC (Pentium 4) is running a Slackware 11 distro, which I have customized quite a bit. I know...I know...I've got the Slackware 13 distro discs

Re:[SLUG] Flashplayer 10

2010-10-17 Thread elliott-brennan
Hi Malcolm, With little to know experience with Slackware :)) but with kids who want to see the latest Flash thingies: I tend towards the following: 1. run 'locate libflashplayer.so' in a terminal so you can find where the libflashplayer.so (file/s) are currently located. 2. Keep a

Re: [SLUG] Flashplayer 10

2010-10-17 Thread Heracles
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18/10/10 10:37, Malcolm Johnston wrote: Dear Sluggers, I have a simple problem, which I would expect has a simple solution, but I'm being cautious and checking first. Snip Now, I'm constantly getting messages from sites with video material

Re: [SLUG] Flashplayer 10

2010-10-17 Thread Troy Rollo
On Monday 18 October 2010 15:57:20 Heracles wrote: That's it. Just remember that there may be other copies of the old flashplayer.so on your system... perhaps in ~/.mozilla/firefox/whatever/plugins Heracles lsof | grep flash is one way of finding out what copy of the Flash plugin is in use