Charles A. Punch wrote:
Dan Ray wrote:
Morning, folks!
So my upgrade to KDE 2.2 went reasonably well--a few minutes hunting down
dependencies, and a deep breath as I did a --force on a couple of things,
and then by god I'd booted into KDE 2.2. I'm getting to be pretty good
at this stuff! ;-D
The only thing that seems to have broken in the process is the Flash
Netscape plugin for Konqueror, which used to work great. Now, though, Konq
freezes hard before rendering any page that contains flash and 'kill -9'
is the only way out.
Any thoughts? Should I just refresh the nsplugins package? Is there an
update to nsplugins for kde 2.2 that I maybe didn't get?
I hopr this doesn't twist this thread *too* far off topic. Just a note
about NS plugins, which may or may not be relevant. I am not much of a
command line person. I do most things from the GUI, but am trying to
learn more command line. It just seems that what people say work for
them, does not always work on my system, or either (gasp!) I am perhaps
not doing something right. I have been trying to get the Macromedia
Flash plugins to work for about a month. Countless tries of downloading
and following the instructions in the tarball (which are command line
instructions). kept getting the message no such file or directory. I
copied the path from GMC to make sure I had it entered correctly.
Finally, I just did a drag and drop from GMC and Eureka! it works. Must
have been something about the path, but I can't figure out exactly what.
Could it possibly be a dependancy or something more basic than just a
syntax error? I know the info I've given is not much to go on, but I was
just looking for perhaps a general direction or something basic, I may
have overlooked. Any help will be appreciated. Don't bend over too far
backwards helping me on this one, because after all, it is working now.
It's just that I would like to know why, for future reference and for
general education that may help my weak command line skills. I guess
some people are never satisfied. Just so this isn't taken out of
context, that last remark was about myself.
ShalomOut
Chal
Elder PCUSA
Registered Linux user # 217118
Patience is a minor form of despair, disguised as virtue.
-- Ambrose Bierce, on qualifiers
Wow, this seems to be the only thing in Linux I actually know anything
about. So far I've posted this same thing twice and gotten rave reviews
both times, so I'll modify it to refer to flash instead of java (the
original topic, same procedure) and just copy-paste...
The command line solution can be found on page 98 of Running Linux
(Welsh,Dalheimer and Kaufman - O'Reilly Associates) and on page 219 of
Linux in a Nutshell (Siever, Spainhour, Figgins and Hekman - O'Reilly).
If you don't already have both books I STRONGLY recommend picking them
up. Either buy/order them from a locally owned bookstore or, if you
don't have the hefty $75 combined price tag, take the five-finger
discount at the nearest Borders (the place is less secure than Windows
ME) and buy a few magazines back at your hometown shop to support local
business. Just please don't actually buy it from one of those lame
chains, either order it from your local business (it's probably not in
stock) or bring a bookbag to one of the gross box stores. Linux is just
one small part of taking power away from corporate assholes that treat
their employees and customers like dirt, so try to keep the faith in
every aspect of your life possible. Anyway, the command you're looking
for is ln. It works as follows: (the #'s are just to signify the root
command prompt)
# ln [options] sourcename(s) [destination directory]
where sourcename(s) is the fully qualified name of the file(s) you
want to create links to (in your case libjavaplugin_oji.so) and
destination directory is the directory you want the links to appear in
(in my case it as /usr/local/mozilla0.9.3/mozilla/plugins, yours will be
pretty similar - justmake sure it ends up in /plugins)
The option you'll be using will be -s (for symbolic). So, assuming your
netscape (dude, get mozilla...) directory were located like mine is, the
command would be:
# ln -s [your fully qualified libflashplayer.so file]
/usr/local/netscape/plugins
# ln -s [your fully qualified ShockwaveFlash.class file]
/usr/local/netscape/plugins
As an example, my fully qualified ShockwaveFlash.class file is
/usr/local/flash_linux/ShockwaveFlash.class, so my commands would look like:
# ln -s /usr/local/flash_linux/libflashplayer.so /usr/local/netscape/plugins
# ln -s /usr/local/flash_linux/ShockwaveFlash.class
/usr/local/netscape/plugins
Your command would only differ depending on where your netscape and
flash folders are located. Anyway, after you install it you should use
the simple command ls -l [destionation directory] to see that your
symbolic link arrived appropriately. The line for the flash plugin
should
