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Disk Monkey
11-23-2003, 10:05 PM
Okay, I have Moz 1.4 running off of Slackware 9.1, in KDE on 2.4.22 in KDE 3.0. When I get ready to install flash it asks me where my browser is but I'm not sure how to point to it because there are links to Mozilla in a plethora of different folders. Does anybody know which folder/file I need to point to to install flash?
Again, any help would be most appreciated. I feel that these are bizarre enough questions to warrant posting here. I searched through all of the man pages and the internet and have come up with very little. Normally I am more than happy with a guide, or an E-book, or a Man Page, as long as it tells me the info I need. I hate having to run to other people for help and I feel so lame when I have to ask, because it's best to be self-sufficient. But these are very small problems with very small, narrow answers I don't know hwere to look for. The other day I wanted to know how to get my CD-RW drive working so I found a web-page on google all about it. I'm sorry to crap up your forum, but these are things i would really like to know.
Thank you for any support, and good day.
DerekKraan
11-23-2003, 10:39 PM
If you run the installer as a regular user, it will give you two options to install to your home directory. Choose option "m", the first one. That should do it. Start up your browser and type in about:plugins to confirm.
nuttron
11-23-2003, 11:14 PM
i installed it a few days ago;i located mozilla with the command ;
whereis mozilla
or
locate mozilla
i then picked one of the locations at the top of the tree...easy good luck...trial and error...
let us know how you are doing.....
nuttron
For Slackware is /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4.
Disk Monkey
11-23-2003, 11:59 PM
Thank you, sincerely to all who offered help.
Sadly, I'm still having issues. It keeps saying that directories aren't directories. Like so far I've tried:
/usr/bin/
/opt/kde/share/icons/crystalsvg/48x48/apps/mozilla
/opt/kde/share/icons/crystalsvg/32x32/apps/mozilla
/opt/kde/share/icons/crystalsvg/16x16/apps/mozilla
/root/.galeon/mozilla
/root/galeon-1.3.10/mozilla
/usr/bin/mozilla
/usr/man/man1/mozilla.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mozilla.1.gz
/usr/lib/mozilla
I did a KDE search of / and I used the "whereis" command. It said locate didn't exist on my system. :\
Those were all the things i brought up and it tried them all.
It said that none of them were folders until I tried entering them all again and then it said that they weren't valid installation directories.
I'm really at wit's end, now...I haven't the foggiest...
Could I log in as a non-su and install it like that to my home directory? If I did that would shockwave work under root?
Please enter the installation path of the Mozilla, Netscape,
or Opera browser (i.e., /usr/lib/mozilla): /usr/lib/mozilla
WARNING: /usr/lib/mozilla is not a directory.
and
Please enter the installation path of the Mozilla, Netscape,
or Opera browser (i.e., /usr/lib/mozilla): /usr/bin
WARNING: Please enter a valid installation path.
S.D.Willie
11-24-2003, 12:21 AM
get the newest version of flash from shockwaves site. when it asks for the directory to install. use
~/.mozilla/plugins
dont worry about installing the plugin to the root directory unless you always run as root which most people dont. if you dont have the .mozilla/plugins directory, just create it before you run the script.
SD
to reiterate, yes, install shockwave as a user, dont worry about root.
Installing it in ~/.mozilla/plugins will work, but only for your user.
If you want to install it for general use, you will have to install it in /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4.
Disk Monkey
11-24-2003, 12:31 AM
Originally posted by serz
Installing it in ~/.mozilla/plugins will work, but only for your user.
If you want to install it for general use, you will have to install it in /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4.
I did and it actually worked. Thank you very much, serz.
Although I got this message:
----------- Install Action Summary -----------
Macromedia Flash Player 6 will be installed in the following directory:
Browser installation directory = /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4
Proceed with the installation? (y/n/q): y
cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/lib/mozilla-1.4/plugins/libflashplayer.so': No such file or directory
chmod: failed to get attributes of `/usr/lib/mozilla-1.4/plugins/libflashplayer.so': No such file or directory
Installation complete.
Regardless, Shockwave works, and I guess that's all I care about at this stage. I don't know enough about Linux to really understand what that means...other than it couldn't create a "regular file" whatever that.
We posted at almost the same time earlier when you suggest the directory, serz, so I apologize for asking for help after you gave me some. And thanks to s.d.willie as well, i tried that but the folder didn't exist and shockwave works, so I'm just going to leave it alone for no, it's not that important. It was just annoying me everytime I fired up Moz to have it ask if I want to d/l Shockwave.
No problem, I noticed that it probably was because we posted almost at the same time.
So you tried to install it in both places, right?
You didn't have any problems installing it in ~/.mozilla/plugins, that's because you have permissions to write there, but you don't in /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4. To install it there, be sure that you're root.
Anyway, if you're going to use this plugin just for your user, then don't even bother installing it there.
Disk Monkey
11-24-2003, 01:32 AM
Actually it said plugins didn't exist (like I was warned). But it installed in the place you told me. And it works now...I was root when I did it. I'm still getting this system completely set up before I create a user account for myself and relax.
Disk Monkey
11-24-2003, 02:18 AM
Okay....so I guess I only thought it was working...Now it isn't...I created the ~/.mozilla/plugins directory and tried installing it there but no dice.
Disk Monkey
12-05-2003, 01:10 AM
I downloaded Moz Firebird 0.7, and I ran the installer, I unpacked Firebird in my home director, and pointed to it there and it worked. The entire process must've taken about 10 seconds, although, I still don't have sound for flashwave programs, at least I don't get the annoying popup telling me to d/l it.
Thanks to all who helped.
I try to install flashplayer on mozilla-1.0.1, with a smooth instalation process (as root), but when i run mozilla, it seems to crash once it starts to load a web page (but not with the default page from red hat).
I am running RedHat 8 on a Toshiba Satellite 4000CDT laptop, cpu P 2 233 MHz, Ram 64 MB, HDD 4.1 GB, USB FDD and a 24X cd-rom.
Is there a known issue with mozilla and flash?
Do you guys recomend me to install the new mozilla-1.4?
If that is the case, how would i know the minimum system requirements? Because i'm very tight in resources.
What can i do?
Disk Monkey
12-09-2003, 03:51 PM
Unless you're using GAIM, I would get 1.5.
Mozilla should run decently on any PII class processor.
I run Mozilla Firebird on a PII 300Mhz and Mozilla 1.5 runs fine on a Celeron 533mhz.
Firebird is alot slimmer and faster than Moz...But it doesn't have the SSH libraries that GAIM needs. >_<