A present for you all... GPL Flash Plugin!

[Mike Friedman]

For Firefox, try placing the npflash.so in

/usr/lib/firefox-0.10.1/plugins/

(You may have a slightly different version number.)

Then type about:plugins into Firefox's address bar and you should see 
Macromedia Flash listed near the bottom.

Olaf Olson wrote:

> Dr. Sacco,
>
> I made another attempt to understand what you wrote here. I am using 
> Firefox, not Mozilla, but I assumed that this would function 
> similarly. Perhaps I was mistaken.
>
> Anyway, I downloaded the .so file (the one that Daniel Gimplevich 
> suggested, from http://gplflash.sf.net), unzipped it, and placed it n 
> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. I set the permissions. I went to my home 
> directory, but had a slight twist here. mine is in 
> ~/.mozilla/firefox/plugins. I deleted pluginreg.dat and fired up firefox.
>
> First, I can't find any place that has about plugins. The tools menu 
> talks about extensions, but no word about plugins.
>
> I checked pluginreg.dat and I see this:
>
> Generated File. Do not edit.
>
> [HEADER]
> Version:0.08:$
>
> [PLUGINS]
> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libnullplugin.so:$
> :$
> 1075168137000:1:1:$
> The default plugin handles plugin data for mimetypes and extensions 
> that are not specified and facilitates downloading of new plugins.:$
> Default Plugin:$
> 1
> 0:*:All types:.*:$
> /usr/lib/firefox-0.10.1/plugins/libnullplugin.so:$
> :$
> 1097759731000:1:9:$
> The default plugin handles plugin data for mimetypes and extensions 
> that are not specified and facilitates downloading of new plugins.:$
> Default Plugin:$
> 1
> 0:*:All types:.*:$
>
> This suggests that it is looking in the directories listed for 
> plugins. It's not seeing anything except libnulplugin.so, else it 
> SHOULD list the other .so files in that directory. One of the listed 
> items is javaplugin_oji.so, but that doesn't show up in my 
> pluginreg.dat file, either. Odd. Java stuff still seems to work.
>
> I am using
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041014 Firefox/0.10.1
>
> Which is Firefox the browser reloaded, version 1.0 Preview release.
>
> So... Any suggestions as to why I can't seem to make this connect. 
> Better yet, any suggestions on how to make it Flash?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Olaf
> Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote:
>
>> Linc,
>>
>> Let's look at mozilla.
>>
>> * unzip the plugin and place it into /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
>>
>> * set the permissions to 755
>>
>>     -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 364946 Dec 24 20:18 npflash.so
>>
>> * exit mozilla
>>
>> * in your home directory remove
>>     ~/.mozilla/pluginreg.dat [it will be regenerated]
>>
>> * fire up mozilla
>>
>> * check about plugins.
>>
>> Here is what I see...
>>
>>        Shockwave Flash
>>                       File name: npflash.so
>>                Flash Movie player Version 0.4.10 compatible with
>>                Shockwave Flash 4.0                               
>> Shockwave is a trademark of Macromedia®
>>                               Author : Olivier Debon                
>>                              MIME Type
>>        Description
>>         Suffixes
>>         Enabled
>>        application/x-shockwave-flash
>>        Flash
>>        Plugin
>>        swf
>>        Yes
>>        application/x-futuresplash
>>        Future
>>        Splash
>>        spl
>>        Yes
>>       
>> -Joseph
>> ================================================================================ 
>>
>>                      On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 22:02, Linc Fessenden wrote:
>>  
>>
>>>        Christopher Murtagh wrote:
>>>        > On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 20:59 -0500, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. 
>>> wrote:
>>>        >        >>I just uploaded a zip file containing a version of 
>>> the flash  plugin
>>>        >>that "works". Unfortunately, it was too large [192K]  so it 
>>> is waiting
>>>        >>review by the list moderator.
>>>        >        >        >  Rather than ok it and send an attachment 
>>> to the list I've put it here:
>>>        >        > http://open.mcgill.ca/mirror/ydl/contrib/npflash.zip
>>>        >        > Cheers,
>>>        >        > Chris
>>>        > (YDL-General list admin)
>>>               One quick question..  How do I get it installed?  I 
>>> put it in every        plugin directory I can find - both mozilla 
>>> and firefox and it doesn't        show up with an about:plugins..  
>>> Help?
>>>   
>>
>>        --        joseph_sacco[at]comcast[dot]net
>>
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