Installing the flash player in Midori?

[Angel Tsankov]

On Sun, 9 Aug 2009 21:59:29 +0200
Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:

> 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?
> 
Yes, I did.  The "Netscape plugins" panel is empty --  it has always been empty.  The "Extensions" panels is not, but the Flash plug does not appear there, either.