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PostPosted: Sat Feb 22, 2003 2:00 am    Post subject: installing flash player with phoenix Reply with quote

ok when i try to install flash i get this

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

WARNING: Please enter a valid installation path.

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



so where do i install it?
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 22, 2003 2:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

simply copy manually the files libflashplayer.so, ShockwaveFlash.class and flashplayer.xpt in /usr/lib/phoenix/plugins !
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 22, 2003 6:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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bash-2.05b# ls -a
.   ReadMe.htm             flashplayer.xpt    readme.txt
..  flashplayer-installer  libflashplayer.so


no class file in there, will it still work?
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 22, 2003 12:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The only files you need are flashplayer.xpt and libflashplayer.so.

But: This is whats in my mozilla and netscape, I'm not sure about phoenix (They do have some very special plugins and I haven't seen the "About Plug-ins" in the Help-Menu).
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 22, 2003 1:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes, normally it still work without ShockwaveFlash.class, I have phoenix and Flash works very fine with Phoenix.
To know if the installation of your plugins is ok, simply in the url line, write : about:plugins
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 22, 2003 9:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

so i copied them into /usr/lib/phoenix/plugins/ and when i go to about:plugins it doesnt show that they are installed
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 23, 2003 3:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Maybe the ShockwaveFlash.class file is important, I can send you by mail this file if you want, but it strange, normally with the file include in the tarball of macromedia, all will be ok.
Also, you can edit the installer script of macromedia and modify PATH (/usr/lib/mozilla by /usr/lib/phoenix).
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 23, 2003 3:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

that would be cool if you could email it to me. i was looking at the script, and it only copies the .so and .xpt files so does it really need it?
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 23, 2003 3:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have send you a PM, so check it :D
Maybe it's a problem of file rights ?
In my case I have :
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-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      1464736 Jan 13 04:08 libflashplayer.so
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          856 Jan 13 04:08 flashplayer.xpt


If that can help you !
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 23, 2003 8:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

i tried that class file, still no luck, it should be in /usrlib/phoenix/plugins/ right, no other directories
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 23, 2003 12:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

and if you modiy the script of macromedia which install the files ?
If you change /usr/lib/mozilla by /usr/lib/phoenix maybe that can works !
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 4:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

i messed around with the script a little bit and got no good results, so should i try to install it locally with my account?
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 1:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

you can try, but I don't understand why that doesn't work !
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 7:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i installed it locally and it works fine now... i wish i knew what was up
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 8:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A quick question, do you guys get a black border around the left and top edges of flash in pheonix? This doesn't happen when I use mozilla (I use the CVS phoenix). Also flash in mozilla is much more smooth than pheonix. I just firgured it was phoenix stuff in development, but maybe I'm wrong.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 11:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

As far as flash not being very smooth in phoenix, I am experiencing the same issue. Flash seems to cause serious system lag if I have more than a few windows open with it, an issue I dont experience with XP. I wish I knew what was causing it, I should see if I have the same issue with mozilla.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 25, 2003 2:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I can't tell you if I'm experiencing this issue, because I don't use MS based OS and also I don't use Mozilla... So I can't compare.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 25, 2003 2:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

same here, and i havent had problems with flash yet, everything has been the same
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 25, 2003 2:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Im a recent convert, but I would never go back :).
What browser do you run DuF? I love phoenix but not being able to use flash is annoying :|. Perhaps I can try mozilla, does anyone know if it is as fast as phoenix?
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 25, 2003 6:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

DuF: I'm confused, I'm not running a MS based OS either. I'm using gentoo and pheonix and mozilla both which can use the macromedia flash 6 linux plugin.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 27, 2003 4:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Krookednek => I'm using phoenix 0.5, and I'm able to get some flash properly, but on some web site, that doesn't work !

timmfin => I can use flash 6 linux plugin too ;)
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 27, 2003 1:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What's wrong with "emerge netscape-flash"?
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 27, 2003 1:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't think that it's about the "emerge netscape-flash" but it's about the flash-installer from macromedia !
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 27, 2003 5:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, I've emerged netscape-flash and set links from the installed files

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cd /usr/lib/phoenix/plugins
ln -s /opt/netscape/plugins/* .


That's all I had to do and flash is running in my phoenix.
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