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General => Users => Topic started by: willow3 on July 28, 2011, 09:33:54 pm
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I have a new MD on 8.10 and when I want to install flash player to watch youtube I can not do that since adobe only have for ubuntu versions 9.04+.
I tried
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
but it said I already have the latest version.
Earlier when flash player was available for older versions on adobes site I know I got it to work. Someone who knows how I should get a working version?
regards
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From memory I downloaded the .tar.gz for Linux from Adobe.com, extracted it, and moved it to /usr/pluto/diskless/##/usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so because
dcerouter_1019065:~# ls -l /usr/pluto/diskless/##/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 37 2011-07-04 23:21 flashplugin-alternative.so -> /etc/alternatives/mozilla-flashplugin
dcerouter_1019065:~# ls -l /usr/pluto/diskless/##/etc/alternatives/mozilla-flashplugin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 44 2011-07-04 23:21 /usr/pluto/diskless/83/etc/alternatives/mozilla-flashplugin -> /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so
dcerouter_1019065:~# ls -l /usr/pluto/diskless/##/usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12110428 2011-04-13 11:30 libflashplayer.so
With multiple media directors, I would perform the work on the DCERouter and change the /##/ to your actual media director numbers.
Standard disclaimers apply / YMMV
Joseph Hume
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One idea that just floated to the top of my head as I was reading my posted reply, with multiple media directors why couldn't you symlink from diskless/##/.. back to a 'master' file so that updating one file would update all media directors simultaneously.
# ln -s /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so /usr/pluto/diskless/##/usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so
Joseph Hume
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Follow on: After issuing the above command and logging into a media director, it doesn't look like it will work because it appears to be a recursive(?) link.
root@moon44:/usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin# ls -l
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 44 Sep 7 00:00 libflashplayer.so -> /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so
Trying to make it easy on myself...
Joseph Hume
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