[kde-linux] FlashPlayer9 for Konqueror

[Frank K]

Thank you Scott,
Your instructions worked perfectly. For others interested, I only 
installed the Adobe RPM as root. That action put libflashplayer.so into 
/usr/lib/firefox/plugins/. Selecting konqueror>Settings>Plugins>New 
already had the path /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/ as a selection. With that 
path highlighted, the selection of "Search for new plugins" completed 
the installation. The URL http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/about/ 
confirmed the flashplugin installation.
Frank K

Scott Bicknell wrote:
> On Wed June 6 2007 10:06 pm, Frank K wrote:
>
>   
>> Hello List,
>> How do i install the Adobe flashplayer into Konqueror? I downloaded
>> the flash9 tarball and the RPM from Adobe. Firefox is my default web
>> browser on my opensuse10.2 system. The RPM installed the flash as a
>> Firefox plugin.
>>     
>
> How you solve this problem depends on whether you installed the plugin 
> as the root user or as a regular user. If you installed it as the root 
> user, it will be in a system directory. You only need to add this 
> directory to Konqueror's configuration and have it scan for new 
> plugins.
>
> If you installed it as a regular user, the plugin will be found in your 
> user account (probably in ~/.mozilla/firefox/plugins/). But the same 
> procedure applies in either case; only the location will change.
>
> Open Konqueror's configuration dialog and choose the Plugins page. In 
> the Scan Folders section click the New button. Then either type the 
> path to the installed plugin or use the Select Folder dialog to find 
> it. Then click the Scan for New Plugins button and Konqueror will pick 
> up the flash plugin.
>
>   
>> The unpacked tarball mentions plugin directories that 
>> don't seem to exist for Konqueror. The Adobe download page is context
>> sensitive, but the same page displays with either Firefox or
>> Konqueror. Should I post this question on a different list?
>>     
>
> Everything is configurable. Even if the Adobe installer insisted on 
> putting the plugin where no browser on your system would find it, you 
> could make it work by symlinking it or moving it to a location where 
> your browsers could find it. But the instructions above should be 
> sufficient to enable it for Konqueror.
>