[sf-lug] Adobe Flash Player Installation Inquiry on Damn Small Linux 4.4.10

[David Rosenstrauch]

On 02/26/2010 08:55 PM, Brian Gallagher wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I have a question about installing Adobe Flash Player. I have
> recently partitioned HD, on an IBM Thinkpad 600X, and installed Damn
> Small Linux (DSL) onto my computer.   Next, I went to a website which
> required Adobe Flash Player.   So I ended up doing two things.
>
> 1.   First, I downloaded the Adobe Flash Player 10 .tar file.   Then
> I extracted the libflashplayer.so file.   Lastly, I put that file
> into the Firefox plugin folder [ /opt/.firefox_plugins].   When I
> went back to the website there was no difference.

On my distro (Arch Linux) the flash player alpha package installs the 
following files:

[darose at daroselin ~]$ pacman -Ql flashplugin-alpha-64
flashplugin-alpha-64 /etc/
flashplugin-alpha-64 /etc/adobe/
flashplugin-alpha-64 /etc/adobe/mms.cfg
flashplugin-alpha-64 /usr/
flashplugin-alpha-64 /usr/lib/
flashplugin-alpha-64 /usr/lib/mozilla/
flashplugin-alpha-64 /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
flashplugin-alpha-64 /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
flashplugin-alpha-64 /usr/share/
flashplugin-alpha-64 /usr/share/licenses/
flashplugin-alpha-64 /usr/share/licenses/flashplugin-alpha-64/
flashplugin-alpha-64 /usr/share/licenses/flashplugin-alpha-64/LICENSE

The libflashplayer.so is probably the only file out of there that you 
really need; it's just a matter of you installing it in the right 
directory.  Not sure where that would be on DSL, but you could probably 
find out with something like this:

$ find /usr -type d -print0 | sudo xargs -0 grep mozilla

and/or

$ find /opt -type d -print0 | sudo xargs -0 grep mozilla

HTH,

DR