Installing flashplayer help

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 15 February 2009, Sudheer Bedekar wrote:
>Hi,
>I am quite new to Kubuntu and Linux generally. I use Kubuntu 7.10. There
>was no Firefox in the installation CD. I also wanted Firefox 3, which I
>could not get with Adept Manager. So I downloaded Firefox 3.0.6 tar gz
>and manually installed it (as root). It works fine.
>Then I downloaded Adobe Flashplayer 10 (for youtube) and tried to
>install it. At the end it asks for the installation path.I tried
>/opt/firefox, /usr/lib/firefox, /home/sudheer/.mozilla. But each one of
>them was rejected and I was asked to 'enter correct installation path.'
>Can anyone please help me?
>Sudheer

This maybe gets a little more complex, but one of the things about upgrading 
the browsers based on the mozilla engine was that everytime you did an 
upgrade it blew all your plugins away.

So while I have several browsers installed now, all of the 
/usr/lib/browsername/plugins directories are softlinks to /usr/lib/plugins.
Problem solved.  It looks like this:

[root at coyote /]# ls -l /usr/lib/firefox/plugins
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2008-11-30 09:49 /usr/lib/firefox/plugins -> /usr/lib/plugins
[root at coyote /]# ls -l /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/
total 3044
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  12720 2006-12-29 22:25 kaffeineplugin.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     39 2008-11-18 18:51 libflashplayer.so -> /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     53 2008-11-18 18:51 libjavaplugin_oji.so -> /usr/java/latest/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  15792 2009-02-07 18:24 libnullplugin.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  11260 2008-12-16 22:41 libunixprintplugin.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 104764 2008-10-31 19:01 libvlcplugin.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 531540 2009-02-13 10:01 mplayerplug-in-dvx.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   1067 2009-02-13 10:01 mplayerplug-in-dvx.xpt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 531544 2009-02-13 10:01 mplayerplug-in-qt.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   1067 2009-02-13 10:01 mplayerplug-in-qt.xpt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 531552 2009-02-13 10:01 mplayerplug-in-rm.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   1067 2009-02-13 10:01 mplayerplug-in-rm.xpt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 532536 2009-02-13 10:01 mplayerplug-in.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 531540 2009-02-13 10:01 mplayerplug-in-wmp.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   1067 2009-02-13 10:01 mplayerplug-in-wmp.xpt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   1067 2009-02-13 10:01 mplayerplug-in.xpt
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     40 2008-11-18 18:51 nphelix.so -> /usr/local/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     41 2008-11-18 18:51 nphelix.xpt -> /usr/local/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.xpt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 127260 2008-11-07 03:34 nppdf.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  34732 2007-02-12 07:46 nsdejavu.so

Your ownerships:groups will be different of course.  I'm an old fart, behind
a DD-WRT firewall, running Fedora 8 as root 99% of the time.  And I have my
nomex underwear on so don't bother firing up the flames.

Now when I install a new browser from the tarball, I just blow away its
plugins dir and replace it with the link.  Unless of course there is a newer
version of some plugin I usein it, in which case it gets copied over the older
one in the /usr/lib/plugins directory before I convert the new browsers
plugins directory to the link.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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