Installing Flash

[Snake]

Okay I cannot for the life of me, install these programs. Now Flash is giving me issues.

#1: Did apt-get install-flashplayer get taken off the face of the planet??
#2: If I try to install it with the downloaded file from

http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/...ShockwaveFlash

I get to a part where it says to type  where the plugin directory is. I type it in and I get this:

Please enter the installation path of the Mozilla, Netscape,
or Opera browser (i.e., /usr/lib/mozilla): /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/

WARNING: Please enter a valid installation path.

Well whats a vaild path!?

Ah christ. Problem solved. You have to give it

/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/

As a install path.

But what happen to apt-get?!

[Nirvana]

Re: Installing Flash

Okay I cannot for the life of me, install these programs. Now Flash is giving me issues.

#1: Did apt-get install-flashplayer get taken off the face of the planet??
...skip...
But what happen to apt-get?!

syntax error. The code should be:

apt-get install libswfdec0.3

For the Decoder library, and

apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

and accordint to apt, "This package will download flash_linux.tar.gz archive from Macromedia (or mirror). It is useful for mozilla browser variants."

[aysiu]

Re: Installing Flash

Before you

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

, make sure you have extra repositories enabled.

[Snake]

Re: Installing Flash

Aysiu, you are a life saver!!

[aysiu]

Re: Installing Flash

Glad it all worked out for you.

[Nirvana]

Re: Installing Flash

hey, Aysiu, how do you know if a package is in the standard repos or the extra (user-enabled) ones? Is there a clue, or have you just memorized which ones are and which ones aren't in the repos?

[aysiu]

Re: Installing Flash

No, it's not my magical powers.
I just do a search here:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/

[Snake]

Re: Installing Flash

Magical Powers rock! 8)