On 01/12/2014 10:07 AM, John E wrote:
On Sun, 12 Jan 2014 at 03:48:00 +0600,Exalm wrote:
..... SM isn't detecting my previously installed Adobe Flash Player.
Is the corresponding .so present in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins?
Yes and no to that. Let me explain:
There's a 19.2 MB "flashplugin-alternative.so" file there with the same
installation date as I originally installed Ubuntu 12.04.3. I remember
deliberately opting to include flashplayer as part of that installation,
and I was pleased to see that the Firefox which came with that
installation could play videos right from the start as soon as I opened it.
When I look in Firefox -> Add-ons Manager -> Plugins it shows Shockwave
Flash 11.2 r202 and the file libflashplayer.so which is not quite the
same and that doesn't appear in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
When I subsequently got SM2.23 and tried to play a video, it prompted
me "You need to install Flash Player to play this content. Download
Flash Player now", so I looked for Adobe Flash in Software Center and
found Adobe Flash plugin installer was already installed. It does say
there that it will work with a range of web-browsers, including
SeaMonkey. It shows a total file size of only 139.3 kB on disk which is
very different to the 19.2MB .so file mentioned above.
In my SM2.23 about:plugins shows No installed plugins found, and
about:addons has no mention of Flash Player on it's Featured dd-ons list.
Adobe's Flashplayer site offers me 3 alternatives to download:
YUM for Linux (YUM)
.tar.gz for other Linux
.rpm for other Linux
but do I really need to download a seperate version for SM?
How can I make my SM recognise my existing flashplayer?
No you don't need to download a separate version for SeaMonkey.
It probably doesn't show up in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins because you have
the 64-bit version installed, and it is in /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins.
If you installed a 32-bit SeaMonkey you won't see Flash. A 64-bit
version of SeaMonkey should pick it up.
You can create a symbolic link to libflashplayer.so if you find the
location.
[Install the Flash plugin to view videos, animations and games | Firefox
Help](https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-flash-plugin-view-videos-animations-games#w_installing-the-flash-plugin-manually)
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