Installing the flash player in Midori?

[Angel Tsankov]

On Sun, 9 Aug 2009 11:22:59 +0200
Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:

> 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.
> 
My system is LFS (Linux From Scratch)...

> 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.
> 
I've attached the midori.log file.

> 
> >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
> 
The Flash plug-in does not appear there.

Could it be that the libflashplayer.so file has some missing dependencies?
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