Re: adobe flash

Thanks for the advice. I'll d/l it. Oh yeah, also, if anyone needs to know,
my gmail wasn't loading on chromium because I had the noscripts extension
loaded.

:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Nathan England <nathan@nmecs.com> wrote:

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>
> I'm assuming your using some variant on *buntu.. Correct? Regardless, I
> think most distro's now use a late enough version of Chromium that it no
> longer works with Adobe flash (at least not without some serious effort).
>
>
>
> You would be better off going to www.google.com/chrome and download the
> real package and install it. It has flash included and runs much better
> anyway...
>
>
>
> It's just easier. Last time I tried to make default Chromium use a regular
> version of adobe flash I spent an hour beating my head against the wall
> then installed normal Chrome from Google and everything works great.
>
>
>
> If you really want to know.... /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
>
> is where your libflash... should go.
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>
>
> Nathan
>
>
> On Sunday, October 05, 2014 16:44:20 Michael Havens wrote:
>
> I need to download adobe flash and I opted for the tar file rather than
> the apt file. The instructions say (in part):
>
>
> o Copy libflashplayer.so to the appropriate browser plugins directory.
> At the prompt type:
>
> + cp libflashlayer.so <BrowserPluginsLocation>
>
> o Copy the Flash Player Local Settings configurations files to the /usr
> directory. At the prompt type:
>
> + sudo cp -r usr/* /usr
>
>
> My questions are:
>
>
> what is the appropriate directory for chromium?
>
> where are the configuration files? I understand from the first '+' that
> the text after the '+' that this is what you are supposed to type in. I
> can't quite grasp what the second command is. Oh.... I understand. usr is a
> directory in the tar package. They just want to copy the contents of it to
> /usr . They mention that this package is for firefox.... will that prove
> difficult? Why didn't I have problems like this last time?
>
>
> Thanks for any help you can give.
>
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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