[kde-linux] FlashPlayer9 for Konqueror

[Steve O'Neill]

On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, Frank K wrote:

> 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


As another datapoint, I also downloaded the Adobe RPM and installed it on my
Mandriva system, also as root.  However, it was installed in
/usr/lib/flash-plugin and was thus not seen by Firefox 2, my default browser.
However, simply going to the firefox/plugins directory and making a link to
/usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so worked perfectly.  Firefox sees the
plugin and runs fine with it.  My only question is: why does Flash wind up in
different places?  Are there multiple versions of the RPM at Adobe?

S.


>
> 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.
> >
>
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