Re: Flash player

Nope, I've seen the warning about flash and 64-bit. Running a good, old
32-bit AMD.

--- "Steven A. DuChene" <linux-clusters@mindspring.com> wrote:

> Are you by chance running 64bit OS on an AMD64 or Intel EM64T
> type of system?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: Kenneth <madhse@yahoo.com>
> >Sent: Aug 21, 2006 8:44 PM
> >To: alandd@consultpros.com, Main PLUG discussion list
> <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> >Subject: Re: Flash player
> >
> >Those are the instructions I followed. I tried a lot of variations with
> >directories, installing for system-wide or single user, etc. No luck with
> >any of them. It seems I'm the only one that has trouble with it.
> >
> >
> >--- Alan Dayley <alandd@consultpros.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, August 21, 2006 4:56 pm, Kenneth wrote:
> >> > Ok, after the thread the other day that got off on the topic of a
> flash
> >> > plugin, I decided to try to get one working here, and I've had no
> luck.
> >> > This
> >> > is on Fedora Core 5, but I have a similar problem on the couple of
> other
> >> > distros I've used recently. I just never really needed flash, so I
> never
> >> > worried about it.
> >> >
> >> > I downloaded the plugin file from the automatic installer that comes
> up
> >> in
> >> > firefox. It installed a .so and a .xpt file into ~/.mozilla/plugins.
> If
> >> I
> >> > start up firefox and type about:plugins, it does not show the flash
> >> > plugin.
> >> > I checked the permissions on the files, looked ok to me.
> >> >
> >> > Next I tried copying those two files into the /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
> >> and
> >> > /usr/lib/firefox/plugins directories and also directories that had
> >> mozilla
> >> > and firefox with version numbers. None of these got far enough to
> even
> >> > show
> >> > the plugin in about:plugins.
> >> >
> >> > I double-checked the installation instructions online and in the
> >> > downloaded
> >> > file, and I can't see what I did wrong.
> >> >
> >> > Any suggestions? I tried running mozilla and firefox both, with the
> same
> >> > results. I even tried running them with strace. It shows those two
> >> plugin
> >> > files being examined...
> >>
> >> Google is your friend.
> >> - Go to http://www.google.com
> >> - Enter search term: "install firefox linux flash plugin"
> >> - Click "I'm feeling lucky" (Yes, really!)
> >> - Click "Macromedia Flash Player" in the middle of the list
> >> - Follow the instructions you find there
> >>
> >> Alan
>
>
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