[ZZ Missed] Re: installing flash and real player

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 27 July 2007, Terence Simpson wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Friday 27 July 2007, Terence Simpson wrote:
>>> Chris Reed wrote:
>>>> I am a new user to Kubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake.  I am having problems
>>>> trying to install flash shockwave player and real player in order to
>>>> access media on the web.  I've tried using commands in the Konsole
>>>> terminal but with no success. Any ideas on how to get this to work?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Chris
>>>
>>> And if you're looking for "Shockwave", then you're stuck, as there isn't
>>> a Linux version.
>>>
>>> Terence
>>
>> Huh?  Sure there is, its installed and running just fine here, get it from
>> the adobe site.
>
>Shockwave != Flash
>

From about:plugins

Shockwave Flash

    File name: /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
    Shockwave Flash 9.0 r48

MIME Type 	Description 	Suffixes 	Enabled
application/x-shockwave-flash 	Shockwave Flash 	swf 	Yes
application/futuresplash 	FutureSplash Player 	spl 	Yes

And it works just fine here.

>There is the Adobe Flash player, then there is Adobe Shockwave. It's
>used on some sites for games and the like.
>It's also not available for Linux. [1]
>
>Terence
>
>[1]
><https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats#head-72bdc20d068d618fa9
>8aa7d4477a8b56e4a8255a>



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