Monday, October 1, 2007

Firefox plugins

Here are the necessary plugins as add-ons on firefox (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:7)
1. Adobe Flash Player
Download the tarball
tar zxvf install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
cd install_flash_player_9_linux/
cp libflashplayer.so ~/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
cp flashplayer.xpt ~/usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.4/components/
2. Adobe Reader
Download the tarball
tar zxvf AdobeReader_enu-7.0.9-1.i386.tar.gz
cd AdobeReader
./INSTALL
all the files are installed at /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/
acroread
expr: syntax error
message shows, to work it out :
nano /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/
comment the line : check_gtk_ver_and_set_lib_path "$MIN_GTK_VERSION"
i.e. # check_gtk_ver_and_set_lib_path "$MIN_GTK_VERSION"
3. JRE
The Slackware package can be found from the slackware stable repository
http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/faqs/java.html#Linux
ln -s /usr/lib/jre1.6.0_02/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/mozilla/libjavaplugin_oji.so



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