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slackware:flashplugin [2012/09/05 07:24 (UTC)] – jprzybylskislackware:flashplugin [2015/06/12 14:08 (UTC)] (current) – [Flash Player] Point people to Chromium and its Pepperflash plugin. alienbob
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 ====== Flash Player ====== ====== Flash Player ======
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 [[http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer.html|Flash Player]] is, in most forms, a web browser plugin used primarily to play videos, games, advertisements and particularly gaudy websites. It is owned by [[http://www.adobe.com/|Adobe]], and is proprietary software. [[http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer.html|Flash Player]] is, in most forms, a web browser plugin used primarily to play videos, games, advertisements and particularly gaudy websites. It is owned by [[http://www.adobe.com/|Adobe]], and is proprietary software.
  
-Because of some parts of it's nature (it can be unstable, it is updated frequently, and these updates often are to fix security holes), it is not included in a default installation of Slackware. A [[http://slackbuilds.org/repository/13.37/multimedia/flash-player-plugin/|SlackBuild]] exists to install it, and there are [[http://connie.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/flashplayer-plugin/|packages]] available on AlienBOB's FTP server. Both of these solutions are for Mozilla browsers only (Firefox, Thunderbird and Seamonkey), so if you plan on using Chromium or [[slackware:opera|Opera]], you will have to download and install it manually. [[howtos:google-chrome|Google Chrome]] comes integrated with a new version automagically.+Because of some parts of it's nature (it can be unstable, it is updated frequently, and these updates often are to fix security holes), it is not included in a default installation of Slackware. A [[http://slackbuilds.org/repository/13.37/multimedia/flash-player-plugin/|SlackBuild]] exists to install it, and there are [[http://connie.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/flashplayer-plugin/|packages]] available on AlienBOB's FTP server. Both of these solutions are for Mozilla browsers only (Firefox, Thunderbird and Seamonkey).
  
 + [[howtos:software:google-chrome|Google Chrome]] comes integrated with an up-to-date version automagically. If you prefer Chromium as your browser, you can download the [[http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/people/alien/slackbuilds/chromium-pepperflash-plugin/|chromium-pepperflash-plugin package]] which contains the Flash library as extracted from the official Google Chrome binaries. This plugin package will work out of the box with AlienBOB's own [[http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/people/alien/slackbuilds/chromium/|chromium package]].
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 +If you are using [[slackware:opera|Opera]], you will have to download and install it manually.
 ====== Installation ====== ====== Installation ======
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 Getting Flash Player on your computer is mostly just putting a file in the right directory, but it is different for every browser.  Getting Flash Player on your computer is mostly just putting a file in the right directory, but it is different for every browser. 
  
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 This will give you something like this: This will give you something like this:
-<code bash>+<code>
 darkstar:$ ls darkstar:$ ls
 install_flash_player_11_linux.i386.tar.gz install_flash_player_11_linux.i386.tar.gz
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 Either browser should then pick it up and start using it automatically. Don't be afraid to create the ''plugins'' folder in either case if it does not already exist. To uninstall, simply delete ''libflashplayer.so''. Either browser should then pick it up and start using it automatically. Don't be afraid to create the ''plugins'' folder in either case if it does not already exist. To uninstall, simply delete ''libflashplayer.so''.
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 +===== Additional Goodies =====
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 +You may have noticed that, after unpacking the Flash Player, there are quite a few files aside from ''libflashplayer.so'', each of which you may or may not want to install. 
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 +First off is ''readme.txt'', which contains a few pearls of wisdom and is worth a quick read.
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 +Aside from that is a directory called ''usr'', which contains some .desktop files, icons and a program for configuring Flash Player. It is worth installing, and primarily exists for KDE integration. Simply doing this:
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 +<code>
 +darkstar:$ su
 +Password:
 +darkstar:# ls
 +install_flash_player_11_linux.i386.tar.gz
 +libflashplayer.so
 +readme.txt
 +usr
 +darkstar:# cp -r usr/* /usr
 +</code>
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 +However, it is completely optional, as the defaults for Flash Player are fine. 
  
 ====== Sources ====== ====== Sources ======
 http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=108086 http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=108086
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