Installing the flash player in Midori?

Angel Tsankov fn42551 at fmi.uni-sofia.bg
Sun Aug 9 07:49:17 CEST 2009


On Sat, 8 Aug 2009 23:17:12 +0200
Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:

> On Sat, 8 Aug 2009 23:16:37 +0300, Angel wrote:
> 
> >Mike Massonnet wrote:
> >> Simply install it through your distribution's package manager e.g.
> >> yum install flashplayer or apt-get install flashplayer, whatever the
> >> name of the package is. Or go to adobe.com and download the
> >> flashplayer manually.
> >>
> >My distribution does not come with a package manager. So I downloaded
> >the tar.gz version of the flash player package. Then I found that it
> >contains just a .so file which I do not know where to put. 
> 
> One common place to put this file in is /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins, then
> restart Midori and check whether it is found.
> 
> This is also mentioned in the FAQs:
> http://wiki.xfce.org/_export/xhtml/midori_faq#common_problems
> 
Well, I've already tried this with no success.  I event set MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH.

By the way, when I start Midori, how do I check if the plugin is found besides navigating to a site which I'm sure requires Flash Player?




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