[wellylug] Flash for Firefox

[Cliff Pratt]

Persian wrote:
> Hi Cliff
> 
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 09:50:18PM +1200, Cliff Pratt wrote:
>> OK, it is a repository. If you use synaptic (which I do, mainly because 
>> if I use a GUI, I'm going to use as many GUIs as possible! 8-) ) then 
>> you can use the GUI to add universe and multiverse. This gives you many 
>> more packages to choose from.
>>
>> If you choose to use command line tools like apt, you might need to edit 
>> your sources file yourself. Here's a copy of mine. Wherever it says 
>> 'feisty' you'll have to put 'dapper' since 6.04 is 'Dapper Drake'. Then 
>> run apt-get update and you should be able to 'apt-get install mc'.
>>
> 
> thanks for that, I didn't know about adding those repositories in synaptic, now
> I do. I got mc. My sources file was the same apart from one line on mine was
> commented out which I changed and then it matched yours.
> 
> Also I had a look at the properties in synaptic where is lists flash plugin as installed (says via alien),
> as it still wasn't working and I copied the libflashplayer.so from /usr/lib/
> wherever over to my ~/.mozilla/plugins and it now works! I am not sure what
> I am doing/did but to test it out I went back to the .mozilla/plugins dir
> and renamed the flashplayer file to something else. Then I opened Firefox and
> said about:plugins and it again said installed, and gave the file name as the new
> one I had just renamed it to, so I guess it gets the flashplayer from there.
> Confused, but all working.
> 
Good for you. Many have failed where you succeeded!

Cheers,

Cliff