[opensuse] Flash Player 9 on SuSE Linux 10.0?
Hi, Has anyone tried installing the latest (I think version 9 is the latest) Flash Player browser plug-in for Firefox provided by Adobe? By that I mean the one provided here (in both tarball and RPM forms): http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=Shockwa... I'm curious and a bit dubious whether a generic RPM can properly integrate with the existing (Novell- / SuSE-supplied) Firefox 1.5 on my system. And I'm naturally not eager to use a tarball. If anyone has experience with this, please let us know. And if there's a forthcoming update to version 9 packaged by the SuSE folks, I'd probably be willing to wait for that. By the way, if you're curious why I want this, it's so I can peruse Google's StreetView (without having to go downstairs to my Mac). Thanks. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sat, 2007-06-09 at 15:46 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Hi,
Has anyone tried installing the latest (I think version 9 is the latest) Flash Player browser plug-in for Firefox provided by Adobe? By that I mean the one provided here (in both tarball and RPM forms):
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=Shockwa...
I'm curious and a bit dubious whether a generic RPM can properly integrate with the existing (Novell- / SuSE-supplied) Firefox 1.5 on my system. And I'm naturally not eager to use a tarball.
If anyone has experience with this, please let us know.
And if there's a forthcoming update to version 9 packaged by the SuSE folks, I'd probably be willing to wait for that.
By the way, if you're curious why I want this, it's so I can peruse Google's StreetView (without having to go downstairs to my Mac).
Thanks.
Randall Schulz
I have Shockwave Flash 9.0 r31 installed and I've used the Google StreetView with Firefox 2.0.0.4 that was just upgraded via YoU. Works a treat. I installed this back in January and think I installed using the tar file. Nothing to compile and you can actually copy and link the libflashplayer.so file by hand. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 2007-06-09 16:46, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Hi,
Has anyone tried installing the latest (I think version 9 is the latest) Flash Player browser plug-in for Firefox provided by Adobe? By that I mean the one provided here (in both tarball and RPM forms):
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=Shockwa...
I'm curious and a bit dubious whether a generic RPM can properly integrate with the existing (Novell- / SuSE-supplied) Firefox 1.5 on my system. And I'm naturally not eager to use a tarball. I installed the rpm in 9.3, and it's working very well.
-- Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue. -- François de La Rochefoucauld -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 09 June 2007 16:33, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
On 2007-06-09 16:46, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Hi,
Has anyone tried installing the latest (I think version 9 is the latest) Flash Player browser plug-in for Firefox provided by Adobe? By that I mean the one provided here (in both tarball and RPM forms):
<http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Versi on=ShockwaveFlash>
I'm curious and a bit dubious whether a generic RPM can properly integrate with the existing (Novell- / SuSE-supplied) Firefox 1.5 on my system. And I'm naturally not eager to use a tarball.
I installed the rpm in 9.3, and it's working very well.
Odd. I installed in on my 10.0 system, and it did nothing. Firefox is still using version 7 (and yes, I shut down and restarted the browser), even though when I installed the version 9 RPM it printed this message: Files belonging to older Flash plugins have been removed from the filesystem. For your safety these files have been saved in /root/oldflashplugins.tar.gz. You may remove this tarball if these files are no longer required. Evidently, all it saved was some symbolic links: % tar ztvf /root/oldflashplugins.tar.gz lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2006-02-03 19:02:21 usr/lib/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so -> /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2006-02-03 19:02:21 usr/lib/firefox/plugins/flashplayer.xpt -> /usr/lib/browser-plugins/flashplayer.xpt Oh, joy. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 2007-06-09 18:01, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Odd. I installed in on my 10.0 system, and it did nothing. Firefox is still using version 7 (and yes, I shut down and restarted the browser), even though when I installed the version 9 RPM it printed this message:
Shut down Firefox, delete ~/.mozilla/pluginreg.dat, and restart. This should re-register the plugins. -- Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue. -- François de La Rochefoucauld -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 09 June 2007 20:27, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
On 2007-06-09 18:01, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Odd. I installed in on my 10.0 system, and it did nothing. Firefox is still using version 7 (and yes, I shut down and restarted the browser), even though when I installed the version 9 RPM it printed this message:
Shut down Firefox, delete ~/.mozilla/pluginreg.dat, and restart. This should re-register the plugins.
No need for those machinations. Installting the SuSE-specific plug-in RPM to which Anders pointed me (http://software.opensuse.org/download/mozilla/openSUSE_10.2/i586/flash-playe...) solved the problem, with no manual finagling required... Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 2007-06-09 21:43, Randall R Schulz wrote:
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Shut down Firefox, delete ~/.mozilla/pluginreg.dat, and restart. This should re-register the plugins.
No need for those machinations.
That's always the solution of last resort, according to Mozilla. I installed Adobe's RPM, using "Yast -i <rpm>", and similarly had no problem. In, fact I wasn't even aware that the plugin had made it into the build repository :-) -- Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue. -- François de La Rochefoucauld -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 10 June 2007 00:46, Randall R Schulz wrote:
And if there's a forthcoming update to version 9 packaged by the SuSE folks, I'd probably be willing to wait for that.
There already is one http://software.opensuse.org/download/mozilla/openSUSE_10.2/i586/flash-playe... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 09 June 2007 17:07, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Sunday 10 June 2007 00:46, Randall R Schulz wrote:
And if there's a forthcoming update to version 9 packaged by the SuSE folks, I'd probably be willing to wait for that.
There already is one
http://software.opensuse.org/download/mozilla/openSUSE_10.2/i586/flas h-player-9.0.31.0-2.1.i586.rpm
Thanks. That's much better. Although I am a bit displeased about not having to wait for it... Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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