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 already, but there are a few things I need to write up, and I'd rather do that before doing the upgrade, and then the customizing. Of course, I'll get ``Flashplayer 10'' on that distro, I realize that, but the things mentioned above over-ride any need I have to see videos at the moment (many with still co-operate with the older Flashplayer, anyway). Now, I'm constantly getting messages from sites with video material that I need to upgrade to ``Flashplayer 10''. I've got the unzipped, untarred file on disc, and it appears to be the case (from instructions such as those at the Abobe site) that I just need to replace: /usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.7/plugins/libflashplayer.so with the more recent ``flashplayer.so'', which is the entire contents of the tar zip file. Is that the case? Is there anything else I should do? I've got a Flashplayer installer shell script from way back, but I don't see that I really need it, and it's quite long (845 lines of code), and who wants to hack that, especially when some of it is devoted to establishing a plugin site I now have. 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? Cheers, Dr Malcolm Johnston PS: Yes, I know I also need to upgrade Firefox as well, but that will come with the Slackware 13, and the older browser isn't giving me any grief at the moment, anyhow. Apologies for being a fossil, but it comes with age and an tendency to procrastination. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
