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Author: Bryan.ONeal@asu.edu
Date:  
To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: Shockwave on Linux
Has any one tried something like the folowing for flash?

http://techdocs.postgresql.org/college/

(Unfortunetly their is no PPC version :(

Quoting Vaughn Treude <>:

> Hello everyone:
> I'm trying to get my kid acquainted with Linux. I have configured a
> spare box with Xandros (seems like a pretty easy version.) Out of
> the
> box the default Opera browser worked with web-based Flash games, which
> is one of his favorite things to do. But it didn't work with
> Shockwave. I was saddened to find that Macromedia doesn't have a
> Linux
> version of the Shockwave plugin. I googled around and found an entry
> on
> LinuxQuestions.org that claimed that RealPlayer had shockwave plugins
> that could be used in Linux. I downloaded the Linux RealPlayer, and
> it
> worked. I also tried copying the RealPlayer plugins to Opera's plugin
> directory - wouldn't work. So I downloaded and installed Mozilla and
> did the same - also wouldn't work. Opera has a "plugins" option in its
> menu but it seems to only allow you to set search paths. So I tried
> adding the RealPlayer plugin directory to the list of paths, that
> didn't
> help. Mozilla doesn't seem to have any useful settings for plugin
> types
> under preferences (just general behavior settings.)
>
> So to cut to the chase - has anyone gotten Shockwave working under
> Linux?
>
> Thanks,
> Vaughn
>
>
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