Installing the flash player in Midori?

[Christian Dywan]

Am Sun, 9 Aug 2009 15:15:14 +0300
schrieb Angel Tsankov <fn42551 at fmi.uni-sofia.bg>:

> 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?

Note that 0.1.8 has a bug which renders the Netscape plugin panel
useless, in case you are running this version. Upgrade to 0.1.9 in that
case.
And make sure Netscape plugins are enabled in the Preferences.

From the log it seems to see libflashplayer.so just fine.

Regards,
    Christian