Installing the flash player in Midori?

[Enrico Tröger]

On Sun, 9 Aug 2009 15:33:21 +0200, Christian wrote:

>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

He said he is using 0,1.9.

>And make sure Netscape plugins are enabled in the Preferences.

Did you check that?


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

Yes, the line
open("/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so", O_RDONLY) = 9

indicates it's opened successfully, so I guess it's at least loaded.
Angel, did you check in the side panel whether the plugin is listed?


Regards,
Enrico

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