Both sides previous revisionPrevious revisionNext revision | Previous revision |
slackware:flashplugin [2012/09/10 03:17 (UTC)] – jprzybylski | slackware:flashplugin [2015/06/12 14:08 (UTC)] (current) – [Flash Player] Point people to Chromium and its Pepperflash plugin. alienbob |
---|
[[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]]. |
| |
| If you are using [[slackware:opera|Opera]], you will have to download and install it manually. |
====== Installation ====== | ====== Installation ====== |
| |
====== 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 |
{{tag>slackware}} | {{tag>software howtos}} |