Many thanks for WaltS's Sun, 12 Jan 2014 reply at 11:54:25 -0500.
I'm sure it makes a lot more sense than my poor old tired head is able
to make of it just at the moment, but let me go through it to try and
clarify. Walt wrote:
On 01/12/2014 10:07 AM, John E wrote:
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
...... I looked for Adobe Flash in Software Center and
found Adobe Flash plugin installer was already installed.....
...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.
... 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.
Good. Noted.
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.
A link named flashplugin-alternative.so does show in my
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and it targets to
/etc/alternatives/mozilla-flashplugin. However I don't have any
/usr/lib64 directory at all.
If you installed a 32-bit SeaMonkey you won't see Flash. A 64-bit
version of SeaMonkey should pick it up.
I'm fairly sure this version of SM I'm trying to get going is a 64 bit
version. "about:" shows Build ID 20131210201646, and "about: build
config" shows Build platform target i686-pc-linux-gnu. On the other
hand Build machine is sea-vm-linux32-4 (not sure the significance of that)
The above-mentioned target /etc/alternatives/mozilla-flashplugin is
itself a link to /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so, and
so I do have a copy of libflashplayer.so in that installer directory
You can create a symbolic link to libflashplayer.so if you find the
location.
Hmmm... I'm still confused as to why I've got both a
flashplugin-alternative.so and a libflashplayer.so in different
locations and which is supposed to do what.
In my /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer directory along with
libflashplayer.so is an "install-plugin" file where I found the
following commands:
[CODE]
install -m 644 adobe-flashplugin*/amd64/libflashplayer.so
/usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/
rm -rf adobe-flashplugin*
echo "Flash Plugin installed."
update-alternatives --quiet --install
"/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so"
"mozilla-flashplugin" /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so 50
[/CODE]
This got me wondering why the "update-alternatives" here haven't worked
and/or if there could be an easy way of editting this file to make it
work. But I'm still too confused to work this out.
[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)
The "Installing the Flash plugin manually" section here looks very
simple, but I'm still confused about the purpose of the -alternative.so
file and what the difference is between libflashplayer.so and
flashplugin-alternative.so. As an experiment I've tried putting a copy
of libflashplayer.so in my usr/lib/mozilla/plugins in an attempt to
simulate what "Installing the Flash plugin manually" is doing, but it
hasn't made any noticeable effect even after a restart.
Any further suggestions on the above, since sorry, 'fraid I'm still lost!
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