A present for you all... GPL Flash Plugin!
Olaf Olson
oolson at hadleyconnection.com
Wed Jan 5 21:04:09 MST 2005
Thanks, Mike!
Especially for the about:plugins.
I copied the libflash.so file to the directory you mentioned below. No
change. Finally, I gave up and went the route I was afraid of. I
downloaded the tarball and compiled the library. Of course, the default
location was /usr/local/lib/mozilla/plugins. I deleted the 'reg again,
and restarted firefox. No change. I copied the newly compiled .so from
/usr/local to /usr/lib/firefox-0.10.1/plugins/ deleted the 'reg again
and restarted firefox. about:plugins lists it!!!!!!
Just for grins, I moved it to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and it works the
same there, too. Also, not unexpectedly, the new plugins show in
pluginreg.dat. I also noticed that my java plugin didn't register in
either the 'reg or in about:plugins. How very odd. It doesn't matter
where I put it, it's a no-show. Maybe if I learn how to compile the java
library, I will find it listed as well. I can only assume this means
that I am losing out on some serious java functionality, although I
don't recall being told I am limited, yet.
Anyway, thanks for the help!
Oh yeah, and I am still being barred from sites that don't like my
flash. Don't know what's holding it back, but I'm still hacking. If
someone wouldn't mind checking http://www.vonage.com. It redirects me to
http://www.vonage.com/no_flash/index.php.
Thanks
Olaf
Mike Friedman wrote:
> 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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