Installing the flash player in Midori?

[Enrico Tröger]

On Sun, 9 Aug 2009 08:49:17 +0300, Angel wrote:

>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.

How should we know?
You didn't give much information yet about your system and what you
have already tried. So, we can only guess.
You also didn't yet say which distro you are using, that could be quite
helpful.

Try starting Midori from a console and see whether there is any
interesting output.

Run:
strace midori 2>midori.log
then:
grep plugins midori.log
and check where plugin binaries are searched and whether something is
found.


>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?

Tools->Netscape plugins


Regards,
Enrico

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